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States in the northeastern region faring the worst

The role of various forms of water in the Himalayas, other than glaciers, is often forgotten by the public and policymakers.

For decades, the government ignored expert warnings against blasting, building and digging in the region. Today the town’s very existence is at risk.

The Joshimath disaster is an outcome of ignoring warnings for years, and is just one example of governments ignoring risks in the Himalayas

The town has undergone unplanned construction, drastic road widening and hydropower projects that have ignored multiple warnings.

Ecomodernists offer no solutions to contemporary problems other than technical innovation and further integration into private markets which are structured systematically by centralized state power in favour of the wealthy… Chris Smaje "Ecomodernism: a Response to my Critics", Originally published September 10, 2015 by Small Farm Future In 2017, the then Monsanto Chief Technology Officer

We are currently seeing rising food prices due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates like Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, ADM and Bunge. In addition, agri firms like Bayer, Syngenta (ChemChina) and Corteva cynically regard current circumstances as an opportunity to promote their

Archaeologists braved the terrain and its wild animals to discover the ancient Buddhist murals, caves, and temples.

The Gadgil report on the Western Ghats is a major ecological tract and a signifi cant refl ection on the politics of ecology. It illustrates how a theory of nature, lives, livelihood combined with local knowledge, decentralisation, and diversity add to the dynamism of democracy. In contrast, the Kasturirangan report is an antidote to such therapeutic ecology and shows how

Punjabs agriculture -- the states mainstay -- holds a huge potential for energy generation from agro-residues, an alternative model of diversification, besides clean energy transition by tapping solar power even in the agricultural field.Energy ...