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In Andhra Pradesh Software flaws aid land grab from tribal and Dalit farmers
In Andhra Pradesh Software flaws aid land grab from tribal and Dalit farmers
Pulitzer Center Announces the 2024-2025 Cohort of AI Accountability Fellows
Pulitzer Center Announces the 2024-2025 Cohort of AI Accountability Fellows
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How India’s Climate Plans Are Falling Short
How India’s Climate Plans Are Falling Short
Jharkhand Family's Tragic Loss Highlights Flaws In Ayushman Bharat Scheme
Jharkhand Family's Tragic Loss Highlights Flaws In Ayushman Bharat Scheme
Sushmita
Sushmita
Sushmita is an international award-winning journalist, researcher, photographer, and a former engineer. She has worked on issues of climate change, infrastructure, environmental justice, forest governance, health, gender and more. She is a former Pulitzer Center grantee, Society of Environmental journalists’ and Uproot Project's 2024 diversity fellow, winner of Covering Climate Now awards 2024 (Justice category) and Red Ink Awards for excellence in Indian Journalism, 2022. Sushmita is a guest lecturer at TISS in Mumbai, where she teaches modules on climate change and health for Masters’ students of public and mental health and foundation courses in human rights. She has been frequently invited to deliver talks and lectures on issues of public importance. Her articles have appeared in India’s leading newspapers, podcast platforms, and magazines and she has won multiple awards for journalistic excellence. She has over 15 years of experience across disciplines.
Annual Conference Diversity Travel Fellowships
Annual Conference Diversity Travel Fellowships
SEJ and The Uproot Project again partnered to offer diversity fellowships (worth up to $2800) to support journalists’ attendance at #SEJ2024 in Philadelphia, April 3-7. Deadline: January 5.
The Hidden Cost of India’s Tiger Reserves: Loss of Tribal Rights
The Hidden Cost of India’s Tiger Reserves: Loss of Tribal Rights
Tribal communities bear the brunt of conservation policies 50 years after a key programme on tiger conservation was launched
The Dubious Business of Trading Carbon and Its Stakes For India’s People and Forests – The Wire Science
The Dubious Business of Trading Carbon and Its Stakes For India’s People and Forests – The Wire Science
Climate crisis ravages Uttarakhand’s nomadic herders as government looks away
Climate crisis ravages Uttarakhand’s nomadic herders as government looks away
Van Gujjars help conserve forests, but are deprived of rights
Van Gujjars help conserve forests, but are deprived of rights
The Van Gujjars – a pastoralist community in the Indian state of Uttarakhand – are on the frontline of climate change, but their role in forest management is limited by the rights they are denied
Why Local Initiatives May Be Key To Climate Change Adaptation
Why Local Initiatives May Be Key To Climate Change Adaptation
Adaptation plans at national and state levels ignore communities most affected by climate change, but evidence from Jharkhand suggests the way forward is ground-up
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Natural forests play a crucial role in mitigating the impacts of climate change. With a recorded forest area of 775,288 square kilometers, forests account for 24 percent of India’s total geographical...
Jharkhand’s forest communities crumble under climate change and government apathy
Jharkhand’s forest communities crumble under climate change and government apathy
Long dry spells, erratic rains, an unorganized market and lack of clarity on forest rights have dealt a blow to the livelihoods of the state’s indigenous people.
Pay for Writing Workshop by TINEB ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION
Pay for Writing Workshop by TINEB ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION
What changes to India's forest law mean for the Himalayan watershed
What changes to India's forest law mean for the Himalayan watershed
Activists, researchers and academics highlight potential environmental destruction
What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?
What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?
India is currently building as many as six large hydropower plants in Arunachal Pradesh. Experts say high costs, environmental damage and human rights concerns raise questions about the rationale behind the government’s push for dams
Fending for Themselves – Adivasis, Forest Dwelling Communities and the Devastating Second Wave of COVID-19
Fending for Themselves – Adivasis, Forest Dwelling Communities and the Devastating Second Wave of COVID-19
Policy Watch News:Fending for Themselves – Adivasis, Forest Dwelling Communities and the Devastating Second Wave of COVID-19
[Commentary] Forestry, people and India's renewed NDC commitments
[Commentary] Forestry, people and India's renewed NDC commitments
India is frequently impacted by climate-related disasters and the need for climate adaptation measures is growing. The second biennial update report presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) gives a glimpse of the country’s climate-related vulnerabilities. As per the report, 27 of India’s 36 states and union territories are disaster-prone. Also, […]
Analysis: Legislation eroding forests rights could compromise India’s carbon sinks
Analysis: Legislation eroding forests rights could compromise India’s carbon sinks
The Forest Conservation Rules 2022 effectively remove the power of village councils to make decisions about forests in India – a change that campaigners warn could ultimately threaten the country’s climate-mitigation pledges
Happy to report, as of last week I finished a book chapter worth 7000 - Sushmita - on LinkedIn
Happy to report, as of last week I finished a book chapter worth 7000 - Sushmita - on LinkedIn
NWMI Members at the Mumbai Press Club's RedInk Awards - NWM India
NWMI Members at the Mumbai Press Club's RedInk Awards - NWM India
Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts
Land banks in Jharkhand may become a recipe for conflicts
Jharkhand Villagers Protest Adani's New Coal Venture, Refuse to Allow Land Acquisition Surveys
Jharkhand Villagers Protest Adani's New Coal Venture, Refuse to Allow Land Acquisition Surveys
Sushmita: researcher, journalist, multimedia artist
Sushmita: researcher, journalist, multimedia artist
The need for equity-based climate action
The need for equity-based climate action
The devastating cost of India’s push towards a coal-based economic recovery
The devastating cost of India’s push towards a coal-based economic recovery
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