Environment

The Glaw Lake Ramsar site is India’s hundred and first, and it arrived only two months after the hundredth. In June we wrote about Surha Tal in Uttar Pradesh crossing that round number. Two designations in one quarter is not a coincidence, and the pattern is worth more marks than either site taken alone. Short … Read more

The Western Ghats Eco-Sensitive Area notification is the clearest case study available of conservation against livelihoods, and of friction between the Centre and six state governments. It is also the only environment topic on this list where the delay itself is the story. Twelve years, seven drafts, and a policy vacuum that has done more … Read more