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Environment

Sustainability, climate change and environmental action; Policies, budgeting and developments that affect urban water and air quality, green cover and the commons.

Mumbai-Bandra-Talao-cleanup
Environment

Citizens get their hands dirty to clean up Mumbai’s Bandra Talao

July 14, 2021 Anagha Sawant

A new initiative to clean up the Bandra Talao was started by a group of residents. They collected over 600 kilos of plastic and garbage dumped in the pond.

Vashi Creek and the Mangrove forests
Environment

“COVID19 has become a convenient reason for not doing substantive field work on mangroves”

July 9, 2021 Ashwani Sharma

Interview with Debi Goenka, Executive Trustee, Conservation Action Trust.
Citizen Matters spoke to him about the threat to mangroves in Mumbai.

poorly trimmed tree
Environment

Here’s how you can prune the trees with empathy

July 5, 2021 Aarti Aggarwal Gupta

If you see tree trimming/pruning that is being done rashly, here’s what you can do about it.

Fire brigade
Environment

What can be done about forest fires in Aarey

July 2, 2021 Hepzi Anthony

If trees are cut, then there is a huge uproar but when trees are burnt then there are no repercussions. So, are the fires intentional, ask activists.

fallen tree in Mumbai
Environment

Keeping Mumbai green: Citizens replant fallen trees, but that’s not enough

June 21, 2021 Hepzi Anthony

Mumbai has less than one tree for four persons. The city is set to lose 40,000 more trees to make way for various large infrastructure projects. There are only meager efforts to save them.

Environment

Thanks to unregulated construction, Panje is slowly losing its biodiversity. Here’s how it affects you

June 4, 2021 Anagha Sawant

The State Mangrove Foundation has been asking to transfer the Panje and other wetlands of Belpada and Bhendkhal so that they can be conserved properly. But that has not happened.

Environment

Wrath of the seas: cyclones during the lockdown

May 27, 2021 Ankita Gupta

Cyclones Amphan and Tauktae struck Indian coasts during a state of lockdown. How prepared were we? What was the damage done?

Environment

Photo essay: threats to Kharghar’s ecosystem

May 26, 2021 Tarang Sarin

Citizens are at the forefront of efforts to prevent environmental degradation. Here’s what is happening in the wetlands of Kharghar.

Environment

Mumbai’s airport has a large carbon footprint, what is it doing about it?

April 9, 2021 Nidhi Rai

Activists believe the Mumbai International Airport can do a lot more to mitigate its effect on the ecology of the area.

Environment

Here’s how we can mitigate the ecological impact of Navi Mumbai airport

April 6, 2021 Nareshchandra Singh

The new Navi Mumbai airport is displacing many species of fauna, but citizens have an idea on how to make up for this.

Environment

How citizen action saved Lotus Lake in Navi Mumbai

March 15, 2021 Sunil Agarwal

Citizens and Municipal Corporation have been dumping debris in a notified wetland in Navi Mumbai.

Environment

Flowers lend natural colour to Holi festivities

March 1, 2021 Nivedha Kannan

With Covid-19 still lurking, here’s how you can get ready for your own private Holi celebration at home.

birdwatchers
Environment

Birdspotting – from dawn to dusk

February 15, 2021 Tarang Sarin

The Kharghar teams at the Mumbai Birdrace 2021 restricted themselves to the Navi Mumbai area and they spotted over 100 species.

Environment

Here’s Navi Mumbai’s first ‘Birdrace’. It’s not what you are thinking

February 4, 2021 Nareshchandra Singh

Read how a citizens group in Khargar is actively working to save the neighbourhood wetlands.

Environment

Photo essay: Flamingo city in Navi Mumbai

January 12, 2021 Malcolm Stephens

This is the best time of the year to catch the flamingos and other winter migrants in Mumbai.

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