The Apex Court’s ruling lays bare a deeper, ongoing shift in the state’s approach to natural commons—one that privileges extraction over conservation, and corporate interest over ecological survival. By Tinku Khanna Groundxero | 10 December 2025 Indroduction The Supreme Court’s recent acceptance of a narrow, elevation-based definition of the Aravalli Hills marks a turning […]
The scapegoating of farmers for pollution serves a dual purpose for the corporates whose interests the Indian state actively promotes. It lays the groundwork for a future push to corporatise agriculture by portraying farmers’ ‘backward practices’ as in need of modernisation. It also diverts attention from the real culprits —the automobile industry, the rise in […]
“COP30 provides a stark reminder that the answers to the climate crisis do not lie inside the climate talks—they lie with the people and movements leading the way toward a just, equitable, fossil-free future,” one campaigner said. By Olivia Rosane Common Dreams The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal […]
NACEJ strongly condemns the abject failure of the Government in systemically addressing the air pollution crisis and the brazen, arbitrary detention of peacefully protesting citizens, organizing against this public health catastrophe. It said Delhi NCR pollution crisis needs firm policy shifts and institutional action against prime polluters, not citizens. Restore Fundamental Right to Breathe! […]
While the CRI report tells us what has happened in the past, it is not a precise predictor of what will happen in the future. But the report clearly demonstrates global emissions must be reduced immediately; otherwise, we face rising deaths and economic disaster worldwide. Groundxero | November 12, 2025 The recently released Climate Risk […]
Environmentalists warn of irreversible damage to Western Ghats and Lion-Tailed Macaque habitat; urge Union and Karnataka governments to scrap the project. Groundxero | October 24, 2025 A coalition of environmental groups, scientists, and local communities has sounded a stark warning over Karnataka’s proposed 2000 MW Sharavathy Pumped Storage Project (PSP), calling it an ecological […]
HRF is calling on both the State and Union governments to immediately halt all land acquisition and clearance processes related to the project. They demand full public disclosure of all documents including MOUs, power and water allocation agreements, compensation frameworks and environmental impact reports. Groundxero | October 18, 2025 The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has […]
বিপর্যয় এলে কী হবে সেই আলোচনার চাইতে অনেক বেশি জরুরি বিপর্যয় আটকানো। যে কারণে বিপর্যয় ঘটতে পারে, ঘটছে, তার প্রতিকার। তিথি রায় Groundxero | Oct 09, 2025 কাশ্মীর, হিমাচল, উত্তরাখান্ড, উত্তরবঙ্গ – গোটা হিমালয় জুড়ে বিধ্বংসী বন্যা ও ধস নামার ঘটনা ঘটে চলেছে পালা করে। ধর্মীয় বিশ্বাসে, হিমালয়ে বসবাস ঈশ্বরের। এ জমানায়, পুঁজি-বাজার-মুনাফাকেই আমরা ব্রহ্মা-বিষ্ণু-মহেশ্বরের মত […]
বৃহৎ পুঁজির লাভের জন্য ড্যাম তৈরি হচ্ছে, পাহাড় ফুঁড়ে রেলপথ হচ্ছে। এই আগ্রাসনের বিরুদ্ধে লড়াই হতে হবে বহুস্তরীয়। শুভদীপ মৈত্র “কোই গ্যারান্টি নেহি হ্যায়, বিশ পঁচ্চিশ মিনিট কি বারিষমে সব কুছ রুক যা সকতা হ্যায়…” দার্জিলিং-এর একটা ছোট্ট কন্টিনেন্টাল ব্রেকফাস্টের দোকান – ‘সোনাম’স কিচেন’, সেখানে বসে বসে শুনছিলাম বছর দেড়েক আগের বসন্তকালে। কথা […]
Ironically, while the government claims it has no land to distribute to the landless, it is willing to lease thousands of acres virtually free to one of India’s largest conglomerates. The betrayal could not be starker and more brazen. Groundxero | Oct 03, 2025 The decision to lease 1,050 acres of land in Pirpainti, Bhagalpur […]
রাষ্ট্রদ্রোহীর তকমা দিয়ে এই পরিবেশকর্মীকে গ্রেফতার করা হয়েছে। একদা কেন্দ্রীয় সরকারের ‘ব্যবহারযোগ্য’ ব্যক্তি এখন হয়ে পড়েছেন দেশদ্রোহী! রাষ্ট্রীয় নিরাপত্তা লঙ্ঘনকারী! দেবোপম গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় যে সময়ে এই লেখা, সেই মুহূর্তে বাংলা তথা ভারতবাসীর কাছে নতুন করে জানানোর কিছু নেই – লাদাখ এখন শিরোনামে। নতুন করে জানানোর কিছু নেই সোনাম ওয়াংচুক কে, তাঁর পরিচয় কী, লাদাখে […]
Colonial reclamation practices, coupled with postcolonial urban development, treated wetlands as wastelands to be controlled and commodified, ignoring their vital ecological significance. By Salini Saha In the early hours of 23rd September 2025, a few hours of very intense rainfall submerged large parts of Kolkata. Streets turned into rivers, neighbourhoods were waterlogged for days […]
The Ganges is more than a river. It is a lifeline, a sacred symbol, and a cornerstone of South Asian civilisation. But it is drying faster than ever before, and the consequences of inaction are unthinkable. Mehebub Sahana, University of Manchester The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia, is […]
While the ICJ’s Advisory is non-binding, it carries legal and political weight and future climate cases would be unable to ignore it. The Advisory can become a powerful tool for holding rich polluting countries to account for their obligations, especially in protecting the world’s most marginalised people and future generations of humanity. Groundxero | July 23, 2025 […]
Can capitalism survive the climate crisis it helped create? Or must we finally admit that it’s the system itself that’s killing us? By George Cassidy Payne Jul 17, 2025 Common Dreams The world is burning, both literally and figuratively. Temperatures are shattering records. Wildfires sweep across continents. Glaciers melt while droughts deepen. Inequality […]