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Dire emergency!

Join and speak up for natural smog towers, the #Trees🌳 #HelpUsBreathe

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#HelpUsBreathe


Cannon fodder to feed an insatiable appetite! India’s episode of FRIENDS with a new twist and turn. @pranshuverma_

1gaurav's tweet image. Cannon fodder to feed an insatiable appetite! India’s episode of FRIENDS with a new twist and turn.
@pranshuverma_

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Please read the thread to know the truth. The future of Mumbai is at stake. Please act before it's too late. savesgnp.org

savesgnp.org

Save Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Help protect SGNP and indigenous Adivasi communities. Join us in objecting to the Draft Zonal Master Plan.

(1/13) Why the BMC’s draft zonal master plan for the eco-sensitive zone of #SGNP - one of #Mumbai’s last remaining green lungs - is the most anti-environmental decision: A 🧵 #Savesgnp #sanjaygandhinationalpark

CitiesQuestion's tweet image. (1/13) Why the BMC’s draft zonal master plan for the eco-sensitive zone of #SGNP - one of #Mumbai’s last remaining green lungs - is the most anti-environmental decision: A 🧵
#Savesgnp #sanjaygandhinationalpark


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In 2021, SC had finally accepted, crackers are toxic at every stage, production, storage, use. Yet, here we are again, reopening the debate on “green” crackers.

#PESO Act was built for a time when question was how to make explosives safe to handle, not whether they should exist at all. Today, it’s being stretched to justify “green” crackers. 1940s law cannot govern a 2025 survival crisis. @gupta_rekha @CAQM_Official #IsGreyTheNewGreen

BhavreenMK's tweet image. #PESO Act was built for a time when question was how to make explosives safe to handle, not whether they should exist at all.
Today, it’s being stretched to justify “green” crackers.
1940s law cannot govern a 2025 survival crisis. @gupta_rekha @CAQM_Official 

#IsGreyTheNewGreen


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This analysis of operation of Bhakra, Pong & Ranjit Sagar Dams during Aug-Sept 2025 Punjab floods shows that the wrong operation and sub optimal power generation from these dams played a significant role in worsening the Punjab Flood disaster. sandrp.in/2025/09/07/pun…

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Punjab Floods 2025: Role of Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar Dams

Every dam can potentially help moderate floods to some extent in the downstream area. This is possible only when the dam is operated with that objective in mind. However, when the dam is NOT operat…


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1. Dear ECI, here is a list of 509 people registered as voters in one fictitious house no. 39 in Pipra, Bihar. And we have records of 80,000 voters like these bundled into fictitious/dubious addresses in just 3 constituencies. This is not a one-off mistake. This is a systemic…


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Get inside d forest,kill it 2 build lxry Apts & sell them for crores,with "view of the forest". Irony.Plan being facilitated by officials.Reason Y wtr sources r prpsly being dried.No water,no wildlife=no challenge 2 the plan. @cmohry @RaoNarbir

AravalliBachao's tweet image. Get inside d forest,kill it 2 build lxry Apts & sell them for crores,with "view of the forest". Irony.Plan being facilitated by officials.Reason Y wtr sources r prpsly being dried.No water,no wildlife=no challenge 2 the plan. @cmohry @RaoNarbir
AravalliBachao's tweet image. Get inside d forest,kill it 2 build lxry Apts & sell them for crores,with "view of the forest". Irony.Plan being facilitated by officials.Reason Y wtr sources r prpsly being dried.No water,no wildlife=no challenge 2 the plan. @cmohry @RaoNarbir

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Dev bhoomi and all that.

SushantSin's tweet image. Dev bhoomi and all that.

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I have immense respect for the women mentioned here—they have done outstanding research in their respective fields. That said, I would like to clarify that the forecast system being referred to was developed by a different team of scientists at IITM. The core development, over…

RockSea's tweet image. I have immense respect for the women mentioned here—they have done outstanding research in their respective fields. That said, I would like to clarify that the forecast system being referred to was developed by a different team of scientists at IITM. The core development, over…

The all-women-led team behind the first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art indigenous “Bharat Forecast System” #BharatFS, launched by the India Meteorological Department under the Ministry of Earth Sciences. A brilliant reflection of PM Sh @narendramodi's push for greater women…

DrJitendraSingh's tweet image. The all-women-led team behind the first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art indigenous “Bharat Forecast System” #BharatFS, launched by the India Meteorological Department under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

A brilliant reflection of PM Sh @narendramodi's push for greater women…


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Environmentalists alert Forest and District Ministers on the perils of Mahadayi River Diversion from Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary - All About Belgaum allaboutbelgaum.com/news/environme…


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🚨Insects are disappearing and it is a huge biodiversity loss! 🦋🐝🪰 Find out more about the global threats to insects. 🎨: Wagner et al. (2021)

UNBiodiversity's tweet image. 🚨Insects are disappearing and it is a huge biodiversity loss! 🦋🐝🪰

Find out more about the global threats to insects.

🎨: Wagner et al. (2021)

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This rarest of rare pictures shows former Indian prime minister #ManmohanSingh registered as a schoolboy in his village Gah, on the outskirts of Chakwal in Pakistan. (Photo courtesy Danial Kublai Khan for a piece I commissioned for 'Pique' magazine in 2012): Herewith that…

kaamyabi's tweet image. This rarest of rare pictures shows former Indian prime minister #ManmohanSingh registered as a schoolboy in his village Gah, on the outskirts of Chakwal in Pakistan. 

(Photo courtesy Danial Kublai Khan for a piece I commissioned for 'Pique' magazine in 2012):  

Herewith that…

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Greetings! Join us for Friday.Waters Water Arts session on 27 th Dec 2024 at 5:00-6:00 PM IST to discuss, ‘~Water Tales : Comics and Storytelling~’ with LEEWARDISTS. The joining link is: tinyurl.com/bdhcctxc. Please circulate. Thanks

WforWFoundation's tweet image. Greetings! Join us for Friday.Waters Water Arts session on 27 th Dec 2024 at 5:00-6:00 PM IST to discuss, ‘~Water Tales : Comics and Storytelling~’ with LEEWARDISTS. The joining link is: tinyurl.com/bdhcctxc. Please circulate. Thanks

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A heart-touching account of mangroves from a true mangrove lover and a budding mangrove biologist of India...👌👌👌thank you @bioutchimahali 👇 In the path of a cyclone, mangroves’ protective power matters more than ever forestsnews.cifor.org/90674/in-the-p… via @cifor


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November Ambient Air Quality Snapshot - India 🟢Delhi was ranked the most polluted city in India, with a monthly average PM2.5 concentration of 249 µg/m³, the highest November level since 2017 🟢A total of 159 cities out of 268 breached the PM2.5 NAAQS, with only one city…

manoj_kumar_nr's tweet image. November Ambient Air Quality Snapshot - India
🟢Delhi was ranked the most polluted city in India, with a monthly average PM2.5 concentration of 249 µg/m³, the highest November level since 2017
🟢A total of 159 cities out of 268 breached the PM2.5 NAAQS, with only one city…

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1. This Coal Ministry’s star-rating scheme helps coal miners greenwash their track record – of poor environmental compliance, fatal accidents, and other violations. Here’s a #thread on how this self-appraisal system works.


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Killing Ourselves in the Name of Growing Rice and Wheat Brothers and Sisters of the Indo-Gangetic plains, whether from India or Pakistan, breathe poisonous air (with AQI>300) today, thanks to farmers getting terminally stuck in the rice and wheat hamster wheel. I'll be honest.…


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