The PRESS Pad

From the Aravalli mountain system  to the mangrove ecosystems along India’s coasts , the country finds itself at the same moral crossroads that Amitav Ghosh evokes in The Hungry Tide  — where nature remembers what law chooses to forget, and where ecological consequences return with relentless force. If environmental justice continues to be diluted in the name of development, the Constitution of India risks becoming a silent witness to ecological destruction . This silence is

India has ushered in a major transformation in how solid waste is collected, segregated, processed, and disposed of with the notification of the Solid Waste Management (SWM) Rules, 2026 . Issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 , the new rules will replace the decade-old SWM Rules, 2016  and come into full effect from April 1, 2026 . The revised framework places strong emphasis on circular economy pri

India’s first Living Lab in Kerala’s Kanichar panchayat is pioneering disaster preparedness with automatic weather stations, AI-based landslide early warning, and community-driven resilience measures.