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-By Aakanksha Tiwari, Niraj Bhatt and Vamsi Sankar Kapilavai, Environment and Climate Action Background While India is busy tackling Covid-19 and enjoying the news of ‘healing nature’, people have received shocking news of incidents in three of its states, one after the other, within a span of 24

It is not the most enviable of tasks - to announce to anyone that the future is not what it used to be. More so if the audiences for our apocalyptic messages are gleamy-eyed youngsters, with supposedly a heady mix of hope, irreverence and apathy (they can ill-afford, if you ask us). And what reason

by Niraj Bhatt, Researcher - Environment and Climate Change For coal-fired thermal power plants, water is one of the key requirements for power generation. Water is required for generating steam in the boiler, for cooling process in the condenser, disposal of ash, heat removal in auxiliary units and

As I woke up this morning, the smell of air reminded me of a morning in Delhi. What was it in Chennai’s air that made my sleepy mind think of Delhi as I woke up? The smell was familiar, and I remembered having experienced it at the same time last year in Chennai. I peeped out of my bedroom window

by Bhagyashree Rath, Researcher - Environment and Climate Change Determining the performance of a power plant can be a complex topic to understand, given the various factors such as availability of fuel/water, installed capacity, the age of the unit, planned outage etc, at play. A brief

-By Niraj Bhatt, Researcher - Environment and Climate Action In part I of the three-part series on geoengineering, we learnt about marine geoengineering and why it is not a quick fix for the climate crisis. In part II of this series, we look at land-based geoengineering and why it is a bad bet to

-By Niraj Bhatt, Researcher - Environment and Climate Action Part I of this series was about marine geoengineering and why it is not a quick fix for the climate crisis, while part II was about land-based geoengineering and why it is a bad bet to combat climate crisis. In part III of the three-part

by Niraj Bhatt, Researcher - Environment and Climate Change In our last issue, we explored the detrimental effect of coal-fired power plants on the local aquatic and marine ecosystems. We also delved into how the discharges from coal-fired power plants affect fish health and human livelihoods and

The world celebrated June 05, 2019 as the World Environment Day (WED 2019), and the theme this year was “Air Pollution”. China, once famous for its smoggy skies and extremely polluted air was the global host, while back home in India, Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEFCC), in

by Niraj Bhatt, Researcher - Environment and Climate Change In our last issue, we looked at how different sectors contribute to pollutants in the air we breathe, of which ozone is one of the major pollutants. Ozone is a gas that is present in Earth’s upper atmosphere (stratosphere), where it

by Harshavardhini Varagunan, Researcher - Environment and Climate Change Use of land at the proposed site of a thermal power plant is a prime concern to communities living in the vicinity and the project proponent. Optimal use of land should be considered in order to ensure operation and maintenance

-By Niraj Bhatt, Researcher - Environment and Climate Action On January 10 2019, India had her first ever national programme to address the air pollution issue, released by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). Considering the exigency and the magnitude of air pollution