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HomeEnvironment

Environment

Monitoring how local factors and city-level development and practices affect Bengaluru’s environment (air and water quality, pollution, water bodies, tree cover etc) and citizen engagement in the issue.

Cauvery river full of froth
Environment

Webinar: Bengaluru’s wastewater is polluting the Cauvery; users too must pay true cost of water

May 10, 2022 Navya P K

Bengaluru’s untreated wastewater eventually enters the Cauvery river, which then reaches the city right back through its water supply network. A webinar looked at the problem and possible solutions.

Cauvery river full of froth
Environment

Webinar: Arkavathi and her sisters

April 28, 2022 News Desk

Data-driven evidence can help people make informed decisions on protecting our Rivers. Listen to experts and citizens to know how.

bengaluru real estate projects
Environment

Bengaluru’s bane, poorly designed environment regulatory systems and outdated land use models

March 14, 2022 Sneha Visakha

The clearance process involves documentation riddled with basic factual errors, plagiarism and incorrect information on flora and fauna among other things.

Plastic waste segregation for Brand audit
Environment

Brand Audit 2021: Here are Karnataka’s top producers of plastic waste

March 7, 2022 Pinky Chandran, Dr Umashankar S and Nalini Shekar

In Bengaluru, food packaging dominated the plastic waste list, followed by other packaging material and. household and personal care products.

Dr J Srinivasan, Distinguished Scientist at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISc
Environment

Bengaluru warming faster than global mean, will become much hotter: Dr J Srinivasan, IISc

February 13, 2022 Navya P K

The State can’t deal with climate change if it ignores local factors like land use change and pollution, says Dr Srinivasan.

An aerial view of the outskirts of Bengaluru
Environment

Webinar: Green or gone? Development projects and their impact on environment

February 9, 2022 News Desk

Join this discussion on Feb 11th, on how real estate projects in Bengaluru are getting Environment Clearance, and how effective this process is.

Lawn grass cultivation
Environment

Turf grass: A pretty business that costs much more than just money

February 8, 2022 Sravasti Datta

Turf grass requires excessive water, is doused with harmful chemicals, displaces food crops and grassland insects, and affects topsoil fertility.

A rat snake
Environment

Snakes in Bengaluru city

February 2, 2022 Almaas Masood

A recent study recorded 33 species of snakes in Bengaluru. As natural habitats shrink, human-snake interactions have been increasing in the city.

Vegetables grown in containers on the terrace
Environment

How this Bellandur apartment set up a kitchen garden on the terrace

January 12, 2022 Aditya Rao

What began as one family’s passion has evolved into a community garden managed by residents of this Bellandur apartment.

flooded road
Environment

Floods in Bengaluru: Engineered, legally!

December 27, 2021 H S Sudhira

Government agencies have engineered Bengaluru’s natural streams into sewage-carrying drains. This has resulted in frequent floods in the city.

Bengaluru lake
Environment

Surveying maps, roping in authorities and building a community for Bengaluru’s lakes

December 15, 2021 Shoma Abhayankar

Captain Santhosh Kumar, an army veteran, has been on a mission to identify and restore the storm water drains of Bengaluru.

Kaikondarahalli lake
Environment

Can citizen groups maintain Bengaluru lakes? Legal tussle continues

December 13, 2021 Sravasti Datta

Citizen groups are no longer authorised to maintain lakes. Court-mandated committees are supposed to do this job instead, but the groups challenge this.

rainy day
Environment

Annual rainfall increasing in Bengaluru, data shows

December 6, 2021 Vaidya R

Bengaluru saw unprecedented rains this November. Larger trends indeed show changes in the city’s annual and monthly rainfall patterns.

Rescue and rehabilitation of Indian Pitta rescued by PfA
Environment

Migrant Pitta birds are collapsing in unusual numbers in Bengaluru. Here’s why

November 29, 2021 Sneha Salgame and Nagesh Manay

Indian Pitta, one of the most beautiful migratory birds arriving from the Himalayas, are being rescued in unusually high numbers this year.

Planting Miyawaki forest
Environment

How to build a micro forest in your backyard

November 19, 2021 Varun Ravindra

It’s possible to create micro (miyawaki) forests in small spaces around your house or apartment complex. Here’s a guide.

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