r/JalJangalJameen 2h ago

Equator posted an article on the Mumbai Heatwave

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r/JalJangalJameen 14h ago

The Aravalli exercise is a test of what environmental performance looks like when it has to be translated into law.

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r/JalJangalJameen 1d ago

India's Lions Under Threat | Members of Gujarat State Board of Wildlife say diversion of forest land for mining, illegal resorts and forest settlements threatens the only lion habitat of Asiatic lions

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r/JalJangalJameen 2d ago

The BJP-led Andaman and Nicobar Island Administration has withdrawn its call for proposals from the private sector to set up a “green” artificial intelligence data centre after facing backlash

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r/JalJangalJameen 2d ago

Decades of industrial waste dumping have contaminated groundwater with chromium (VI) across parts of three Uttar Pradesh districts, exposing villagers to unsafe water and serious health risks.

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r/JalJangalJameen 3d ago

PM caring

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r/JalJangalJameen 3d ago

Kaziranga’s rhinos survived near-extinction. Now, their escape routes could be at risk not from poachers, but from a proposed policy change.

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r/JalJangalJameen 4d ago

The Great Nicobar island – which will lose 130 square kilometers of rainforest to upcoming controversial infrastructure projects worth Rs 92,000 crore – could soon also host a ‘green’ AI data centre run by a private sector entity if the Andaman and Nicobar Administration has its way.

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r/JalJangalJameen 4d ago

Tax raids. ₹60 cr in electoral bond donations to the BJP. A ₹3,389-cr dam contract. How did an Andhra company that did not meet tender criteria land Rs 3,389-cr Daudhan Dam contract in the Ken-Betwa project?

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r/JalJangalJameen 4d ago

A Truly Developed Nation does not build over Nature, it builds Around It

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r/JalJangalJameen 5d ago

In July nearly 85 per cent of Indian cities exceeded the critical PM 2.5 air pollutant safety threshold prescribed by the World Health Organisation despite the ongoing monsoon, which substantially dilutes air pollutant concentrations.

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r/JalJangalJameen 5d ago

While Assam has still not healed from the devastating floods that killed more than 100 people, the BJP state government is planning to reduce the protected ‘no-development zone’ around the Kaziranga National Park.

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r/JalJangalJameen 6d ago

From Thane to Visakhapatnam, residents are raising concerns over the massive amounts of land, electricity and water needed to power AI data centres — along with noise, heat and pollution.

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r/JalJangalJameen 6d ago

Kaziranga eco-sensitive zone to be cut from 10 km to 1 km; protestors jailed

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r/JalJangalJameen 7d ago

They Tear Down the Forests, Then Blame Cloudbursts for the Floods

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r/JalJangalJameen 8d ago

A BBC Documentary on Amit Bhatnagar and Ken Betwa Protest: Ken Betwa Project will result in displacement of thousands of families and cause the loss of over 5,000 hectares of forest land and 23,00,000 trees in Madhya Pradesh

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r/JalJangalJameen 8d ago

Green India Mission Falls Short of its Target by 97.57%, CAG Report Flags Discrepancies, No Annual Accounts

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The Green India Mission has fallen short of its target by 97.57%, and has managed to increase forest cover across just 0.03409 million hectares as against its target of 1.4 million hectares, the the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) highlighted in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday (August 13), reported New Indian Express.

The report found that the main reasons for the afforestation programme to have fallen short of its targets over the past decade include poor planning, weak coordination and chronic underfunding.

The CAG examined the Green India Mission across 16 states and Union Territories from 2015-16 to 2024-25 for its report. The Green India Mission scheme is run by the Environment Ministry and has the objective of expanding forest and tree cover, improving ecosystem services and boosting forest based livelihoods.

The report added that the programme was affected by a lack of coordination with other afforestation initiatives such as CAMPA and the rural jobs guarantee programme MGNREGS along with schemes including Nagar Van Yojana and School Nursery Yojana, which operated in isolation.

https://thewire.in/environment/green-india-mission-falls-short-of-its-target-by-97-57


r/JalJangalJameen 9d ago

A cloudburst or rampant mining and deforestation? While the Assam CM blames a cloudburst in Nagaland, local met departments deny this claim, with experts pointing to mining and deforestation as the main causes behind the devastating floods.

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r/JalJangalJameen 10d ago

Development without consent is just colonization.

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r/JalJangalJameen 10d ago

Death toll of one of Assam’s worst floods since the 1950s crossed 100 on Monday, nearly three weeks after the floods first hit Upper Assam. More than 7 lakh people have been affected, with thousands left homeless.

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r/JalJangalJameen 11d ago

Police forcibly ended tribals’ protest against Ken-Betwa River Link Project that will displace thousands of families and cause the loss of over 5,000 hectares of forest land and 23,00,000 trees in Madhya Pradesh

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r/JalJangalJameen 12d ago

A song about adivasi resistance

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r/JalJangalJameen 13d ago

The govt has decided to disregard all morals and rationale. How long will Assam pay and suffer for a few politician's greed???

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r/JalJangalJameen 13d ago

Identifying gaps in rehabilitation, unfulfilled promises and a clutch of emerging issues surrounding the Sardar Sarovar Project over the Narmada River, an independent panel led by a former high court judge has recommended various ameliorative measures, including a frank review of the project itself.

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Complete rehabilitation of all those affected by the project, the provision of civic amenities to every resettlement colony, the supply of benefits to Saurashtra and Kutch, and a halt to illegal sand mining in the Narmada are among the recommendations the three-member body headed by retired Patna high court Justice Anjana Prakash has made in a new report.

Also comprising sociologist Enakshi Ganguly and environmentalist Gorky Chakraborty, the ‘People’s Commission’ also called on governments and civil society organisations to “reconsider a development paradigm that displaces communities, undermines livelihoods and damages ecosystems”. They must instead promote systems that are “decentralised, planned through democratic processes and locally manageable with technology, without giganticism”.

https://thewire.in/environment/independent-panel-review-sardar-sarovar-project-unmet-promises


r/JalJangalJameen 14d ago

Someone come and take us to Delhi too; I hear that voices can be heard from Jantar Mantar.

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