“More than 6,000 trees have allegedly been axed in the ecologically sensitive Aravalis after the additional chief secretary (forest), in a written order, granted permission to clear the green cover spread across 52 acres of land,”writes Shilpy Arora.According to local villagers, six earthmovers felled the trees to clear the land near a private university in Faridabad within a few hours. “The work…

Two people were killed and four people were seriously injured Thursday in what is being described as a “major incident” at the Tampa Electric Company power plant in Apollo Beach. TECO’s Apollo Beach power plant, located off Big Bend Road, opened in 1970 off the Hillsborough County coast. Unit 2 went online in 1973, according…

“Well, undoubtedly, she was an ecological pioneer. Because internationally, she was the only politician to take on environmental issues in the 70s when nobody else had. Back home, she was the one who had laid the foundations and made us environmentally-conscious. Today environment is a big, public issue, thanks largely to the political importance that…