Vaishnavi Rathore
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🖋️ Land+climate @scroll_in ex: @_thebastion_ send leads: [email protected] Prem Bhatia Award 2021, Laadli Media Award, 2022, PII +ICRC Prize 2023
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''Just because a piece of land is unoccupied by people, it dsnt necessarily mean that the government should acquire it under their name,” a Nicobarese told me, adding that they didn't live in the land proposed for the project, but grew coconuts on it. + https://t.co/GGm7TKi3qG
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The government has ambitious plans to build a shipping hub on the island. But are its native tribal communities on board? I travelled to the island to find out.
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Another day, another revelation of how the Modi Government has bulldozed the Great Nicobar Mega Infra Project through due process. Now we learn that official maps of the island have been airbrushed to remove corals from the map. • In the 2020 map of Great Nicobar Island, the
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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CAQM meetings rarely discuss discouraging car ownership and use: @_Vaishnavi_R Focuses instead on short term measures like "phasing out overaged cars, intensifying drives to identify and impound polluting vehicles and identifying congestion points" https://t.co/AGVmvMp7eX
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The transport sector contributes the most to the national capital’s toxic air but is consistently overlooked when it comes to policy discussions and actions.
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Absolutely crazy story from @scroll_in Inconvenient biodiversity is now just “erased” on paper.
It's time to give up on India's state-owned environmental bodies. Not one lives up to its mandate. "Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were... reduced in size." https://t.co/Vscsceu5mC.
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It's time to give up on India's state-owned environmental bodies. Not one lives up to its mandate. "Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were... reduced in size." https://t.co/Vscsceu5mC.
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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If there is one story you read today, read @_Vaishnavi_R's report on how Nicobar’s corals disappeared from government maps [Also, support @scroll_in for more cracker investigations] https://t.co/HNMTK99WrJ
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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"The entire Galathea Bay fell in this category in the 2020 map. But the 2021 map,... in a document uploaded... in 2023, contains a vast change – the green band along Galathea Bay is missing, indicating that this area does not fall under the IA category anymore." #GreatNicobar
2020: govt map shows corals. 2021: updated map, corals gone. No natural event explains it. Except perhaps the Great Nicobar Project, whose proposed port happens to be right where the corals “no longer exist.” https://t.co/iEWNfrB0b1
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Super story and consistent reporting by @_Vaishnavi_R on the Great Nicobar island and how its unique environmental value is slowly degrading for the sake of infrastructural projects.
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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Magic, Govt of India style! How Nicobar’s corals disappeared on government maps https://t.co/lDWO328Rrq via @scroll_in @pankajsekh @manishchandi
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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Don't miss this cracker of an investigation by @_Vaishnavi_R She has doggedly followed every aspect of the Great Nicobar Project and unearthed key revelations
🚨 EXCLUSIVE How corals disappeared on government maps of Great Nicobar 2020 map shows corals along coast, in Galathea Bay 2021 map shows corals in middle of sea, nowhere near bay Same year, project launched to build shipping terminal on Galathea Bay https://t.co/sqrhT4ZIJg
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE How corals disappeared on government maps of Great Nicobar 2020 map shows corals along coast, in Galathea Bay 2021 map shows corals in middle of sea, nowhere near bay Same year, project launched to build shipping terminal on Galathea Bay https://t.co/sqrhT4ZIJg
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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How Nicobar’s corals disappeared on government maps. @_Vaishnavi_R with a chilling report. Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of the island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size. https://t.co/d55OZgLR6k via @scroll_in
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Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size.
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2020: govt map shows corals. 2021: updated map, corals gone. No natural event explains it. Except perhaps the Great Nicobar Project, whose proposed port happens to be right where the corals “no longer exist.” https://t.co/iEWNfrB0b1
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Powerful, well researched piece by Vaishnavi Rathore on Delhi’s blind spot in tackling air pollution; our vehicles. Despite being the city’s biggest polluters, cars & two wheelers barely feature in policy action. Must Read⬇️
New! 🚨 The Commission for Air Quality Management held 24 meetings since inception: 179 agenda items, but only 22 on transport, Delhi’s biggest pollution source. A deep dive on how institutes, courts, transport policies & political will shaped this crisis. https://t.co/NBChTr1fP7
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New! 🚨 The Commission for Air Quality Management held 24 meetings since inception: 179 agenda items, but only 22 on transport, Delhi’s biggest pollution source. A deep dive on how institutes, courts, transport policies & political will shaped this crisis. https://t.co/NBChTr1fP7
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The transport sector contributes the most to the national capital’s toxic air but is consistently overlooked when it comes to policy discussions and actions.
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Firecrackers are temporary Farm fires are seasonal Main source of year-long toxic air in Delhi are vehicles - mostly cars But guess how many times the commission for air quality management discussed them? @_Vaishnavi_R, with data, nails the problem: https://t.co/eI97Pu4liT
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The transport sector contributes the most to the national capital’s toxic air but is consistently overlooked when it comes to policy discussions and actions.
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New! 🚨 The Commission for Air Quality Management held 24 meetings since inception: 179 agenda items, but only 22 on transport, Delhi’s biggest pollution source. A deep dive on how institutes, courts, transport policies & political will shaped this crisis. https://t.co/NBChTr1fP7
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The transport sector contributes the most to the national capital’s toxic air but is consistently overlooked when it comes to policy discussions and actions.
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Char Dham highway was meant to bring “development” to #Uttarakhand. Instead, landslides are exposing the cost: destabilised mountains, devastated communities. Help our reporters @_Vaishnavi_R & @kri_tikka bring this story to light. Contribute here⤵️ https://t.co/9KUDvSyUm3
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What caused the devastation along Uttarakhand’s Char Dham highway? Could it have been avoided? Can future disasters be prevented? Support Scroll reporters @_Vaishnavi_R & @kri_tikka as they investigate on the ground. Contribute here: https://t.co/9KUDvSymwv
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Earlier this year, @kri_tikka & I reported from North Bengal and Sikkim on how hydropower projects worsened floods. Now, we’re heading to Uttarakhand to investigate how “natural” the disasters along the Char Dham route really are. You can help us get there
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Cloudbursts. Flash floods. Landslides. Uttarakhand has faced a devastating monsoon. A BJP MP, who narrowly escaped a landslide in September, described the situation as a “severe natural calamity”....
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For centuries, Adivasi communities in Chotanagpur have cultivated lac - a sticky, amber-coloured resin made from the secretions of the Kerria lacca insect cultivated on host trees. Today, lac is used in a variety of industries such as cosmetics, jewellery and pharmaceuticals.
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