Thank you @IndianExpress for honouring our work. Thank you @HT_Ed for mentoring me and giving the #environment beat the space it needs. Thank you to all editors especially @RamblingBrook and all my colleagues at desk who help improve all my copies @htTweets
Jayashree Nandi
15.5K posts
Environment journalist @htTweets
New Delhi
Joined June 2012
- 48% of bird species recording population decline globally; over 50% in India due to landuse change, habitat degradation, exploitation and #ClimateCrisis #sixthmassextinction
- Area larger than entire state of Sikkim will be covered with #PalmOil plantations in India's #biodiversity rich #northeast. 3 companies-- Patanjali Foods, 3F and Godrej Agrovet will be taking up plantation, procurement and processing shows #RTI
- India has adopted a coloniser’s approach to tribal populations | analysis | Hindustan Times
- For the first time #IPCC has recommended demand side measures including #lifestyle changes and reduction of high per capita emissions among the wealthy few. Short explainer on key messages #ClimateEmergency
- Info on all projes seeking #environment/#forest clearances now aligned with #RTI. This means agenda/MOM of which proposals r being considered, forests to be diverted, wildlife impacts will not be made public on PARIVESH. One has to file RTI to access
- #PalmOil plantations are likely to cause deforestation and massive #biodiversity loss in ecologically fragile NE and Andamans but they will be counted as #forests and show up as an increase in India's #forestcover! Here's why:
- After 10 years with ToI, I have joined #HTtweets. This is my first story in the new gig on how #AirPollution is causing COPD, diabetes, cancers; will cover environment and science at HT
- How #HimachalPradesh & #Uttarakhand failed to act on basic science, inputs from geologists about the fragility of #Himalayas. Unplanned infra projects to climate crisis: Read what ails fragile Himachal, Uttarakhand
- #Lakshadweep is one of #India's #climatehotspots. It's #coralreefs have experienced mass bleaching events. There is a marine heat wave around the region even as the controversy breaks out. #Lakshadweep will need careful, responsible tourism say experts
- Notice a sudden surge in flies in #Delhi? That's thanks to high humidity, lack of good #rains, delayed desilting, failure in dealing with #solidwaste, say entomologists. Docs seeing surge in #gastroenteritis #Capital city
- #Vishakapatnam #LGPolymers didn't have an environmental clearance for operating and was categorised as 'violation' project by #moef, show documents including their own affidavit. This means the industry's env impact was never assessed nor were it's #pollutioncontrol strategies?
- Amid #ManipurHorror protests, Lok Sabha passes #biologicaldiversity bill. Highlights: exempts codified traditional knowledge from ambit of bill and hence those using it (#Ayush industry) are exempt from sharing monetary benefits with holders of traditional knowledge. More:













