The devastation of this year’s monsoon season in India has been significant, as the problem of climate changed-boosted rain is worsened by unregulated development.
The activists, including L R Budaniya, met Chief Conservator of Forest (CCF), UT, T C Nautiyal, urging him to take measures to decrease the use of concrete paver blocks, cemented tiles on the green belts and kutcha roads.
A team of researchers at IISc studied the recurring foaming in Bengaluru’s Bellandur Lake for four years, and found multiple possible reasons for the phenomenon.
Each year, Delhi spends the winter choked in dangerous smog. So why is the scale of the problem not matched by a desperate, crisis-mode policy response?