Data Stories: Environment

Capacity of Solar Installations in Karnataka between 2016 and 2021 By Harshita Meenaktshi Share of global electricity source By Anas Ali Data indicating shift from normal to electric vehicles from 2019 to 2021.  By Anuja Parashar Source: Ministry of Power Emissions from coal combustion in India are far higher than those produced by both gas […]

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Beginning of the end

Tour guides and local shopkeepers fear that the proposed Mekedatu dam project will destroy their livelihoods. Prakash, a tour guide  at the Chunchi waterfalls (five kilometres from the Mekedatu dam site) and nearby locations, has been working for the last six years. But, now he fears he might lose his job because of the proposed […]

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IEI: Govt needs to stop postponing Mekedatu

The Institution of Engineers (IEI) wants the government to take stronger steps in the Mekedatu project. The Indian Institution of Engineers (IEI) said today that Karnataka government should immediately implement the Mekedatu project, but environmentalists point to the negative effects the project will have on the ecosystem. M. Lakshman, Chairman of IEI, said, “Dam construction […]

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