Environment and Sustainability – NICKELED AND DIMED

Safeguarding the Sea: Navigating Microplastic Pollution with WasteLess Auroville

Microplastics and marine plastic pollution is a global crisis that requires immediate action. Educating people on this issue is essential to ensure that we can effectively combat it. WasteLess Auroville and the Government of Tamil Nadu launched an educational programme to raise awareness of microplastics and marine plastic pollution. This essay will explore why it…
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Coral Reefs: Their Importance and Subsequent Destruction

Over the past few decades, due to various human activities, they have come under the threat of extinction. However, recently, coral reefs have bounced back across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Water Economics: What Does the Price of Water Tell Us?

When discussing the economics of water, it is important to first, identify the need to set a price, what factors influence the pricing, what challenges are faced along the way and how to account for them in the price itself.
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Book Review—The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh’s 2016 masterpiece The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable is a phenomenal work that showcases the drastic impacts of human ignorance on climate change.
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Jal Vivad: An Enquiry Into India’s Water Disputes

Conflicts are eternal, what matters is how they are dealt with. India has managed to keep her international water conflicts at bay but her domestic conflicts often get out of hand and become violent at the first chance that people see.
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Clearances for Coastal Structures and Coastal Erosion: Insights From Pondicherry’s Minor Port

In continuance with the theme of analyzing issues of environmental clearances within India, this article provides yet another perspective on faulty regulatory regimes being the primary cause of coastal erosion.
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The Future of Hydrogen Vehicles

By holistically understanding the properties of hydrogen fuel, a comparison between hydrogen fuel and other alternatives can be drawn which will help to further understand the best and most sustainable option in the world today.
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How Sustainable is Tourism?

While it is great to see the world jump back to normal, climate change and global warming are still a massive threat to life and the environment, and ensuring ecotourism and sustainable tourism is the right path for economies to recover from the pandemic.
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Dichotomy Between Environment and Development: Analysis of Char Dham Project Judgement

The tussle between environment and development has been existing since the beginning of industrialisation and will continue to exist. Sustainable development is found to be the middle ground or the binding force between these polarised realms. But what does this principle entails? Has it been carved out well by the judiciary? The article attempts to…
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Coastal Erosion: A Regulatory and Political Phenomenon Today

The article describes coastal erosion today, prime facie a natural phenomenon, to be a result of organized regulatory oversights and flaws. The analysis is primarily administered through a commentary on current-day environmental clearance regulations for coastal structures and their accommodation of a plethora of vested interests.
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Volcanoes And Climate Change: The Case Of Tonga Volcanic Eruption

The recent volcanic eruption in Tonga left the world in shock at the magnitude of devastation that was put upon the Polynesian country.
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How Indian Environmentalism Shelters Eco-Casteism

This article explores how mainstream Indian environmentalism nurtures caste biases through prominent ideologies and movements.
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