Western Ghats forests losing vitality despite green cover expansion: Study
https://www.heraldgoa.in/goa/western-ghats-forests-losing-vitality-despite-green-cover-expansion-study/455568/ Satellite imagery shows an expansion in green cover, yet a steady erosion of ecological function in the northern Ghats, where Goa’s major rivers, aquifers and biodi vesity corridors originate
The State’s river systems, groundwater recharge zones, forest soils and wildlife habitats depend not just on the presence of trees but on the functional strength of the Ghats as a living ecological engine..
Thus conservation planning cannot rely solely on canopy cover or tree-density figures. Long-term functional indicators, particularly NPP, are essential to capture how forests are actually performing under climate stress.
AQI 400 Paar! But We Are Obsessing Over Modi's Emosaans & Urban Naxals https://youtu.be/SiilQ3x-Z_Q?t=202
Delhi can’t breathe. AQI 500+. Kids coughing, elders wheezing…and you know what TV news is debating? “Maoist conspiracies” and “Ram Mandir sentiment.” Because why talk about PM2.5 when you can manufacture PM — Political Masala?
On this week’s TV Newsance, while India observed Constitution Day, our beloved Godijeevis did what they do best — lose themselves in Ram Mandir flag-hoisting visuals. Hours of primetime were spent decoding Prime Minister Modi’s “body language”, “divine emotions”, and “historic hand gestures”… all while Delhi gasped through its worst pollution spell of the year.
And when they weren’t celebrating saffron flags, anchors were manufacturing an “Urban Naxal” crisis out of a protest by… 22 students. Yes, 22. The same anchors who once performed live asthma attacks when AAP was in power now suddenly don’t know who to blame for the AQI crossing 500.
The lone exception? Sonam Mehrotra Kapoor of India Today — one of the very few who actually remembered that journalism is supposed to serve the public.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor was busy promoting hot-air balloon rides as “world-class infrastructure”. Because what better solution to pollution than literally floating above it?
Story of Mumbai’s Working Class Movement https://countercurrents.org/2025/01/kahani-mumbaichya-kamgarchalvalichi-story-of-mumbais-working-class-movement/ Anil Pundlik Gokhale 23/01/2025 Book Review: Mr. Ajit Sawant covers the Historical Period of Mumbai’s labor Movement from 1853- 2017. He says, “The Mumbai labor movement which inspired the workers of the world to fight continuously for their rights is in a state of dispair and struggle for survival. Why is such state of affair of the great militant labor movement of Mumbai? he concludes “ When all boundries of Labour- working class exploitation are crossedand when the Ruling Perties and the Opponents are enguaged in showering promises on them with sight on Elections their failure to fulfill them will pave the ways for working class struggles. At this hour Mumbai working class movment will rise and fly into the sky from the ashes like Phinix”. The rebirth of the movement is certain.