Author: Bijoy Venugopal

I don’t need some weatherman or futurist or god-man/-woman/-child/-dog/-goat to tell me this – the world’s becoming a stormier, waterlogged, windswept, cyclone-battered, quake-shaken, tsunami-marooned place. My grandmom’s been saying it for decades. This, after all, is the age of Kali – the oft-quoted, always underestimated Kalyug. Where floods are just…

The July 19 issue of Tehelka carries a piece on the damming activity in the upper reaches of the Ganga. An excerpt: India has 4,500 large dams. Until recently, the pristine stretch between Uttarkashi and Gangotri boasted of only one: Maneri Bhali Phase I. But a series of consecutive hydro-electric…

…the towers will play!via an Internet forward (source unknown) The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.

Just when the worst was being said about biofuels, here’s a form of energy that will turn heads. And maybe more. Consider this excerpt from The New Yorker story: For the past decade or so, Samsø has been the site of an unlikely social movement. When it began, in the…

Marlon Brando once said, “The only reason I’m here in Hollywood is because I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.” For the last three years and seven months, I have done pretty much the same thing. Followed the money. The tax-deducted money. The security of salary and…

We can solve the climate crisis, says WE. It’s an excellent campaign, and from an online advertising perspective, supported by some excellent creative. How effective it can be depends on us, or is it WE? More The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.

This stuff is amazing. Can we really accomplish so much with paper? The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.

Trees, says Wangari Maathai, are not super-heroes. Let’s soak that up for a nanosecond. Not just another green message from just another loudmouth. For one, Wangari Maathai is no loudmouth. And then, this is a message that will stay relevant as long as there are trees and there is life.…

What began as a YouTube clip became a major wildlife documentary. There’s scope for all of us, yeah? Read more on The Observer The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.

GS, the ornithologist known as Gopi Sundar, now blogs at http://g-n-s-travels.blogspot.com/ Read his latest on Prairie Chickens. The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.

I have so much disdain and rancor for China’s ecological eyewashes that nothing that country and its soul-bereft administration does will redeem its image for me. But, this BBC news story (via Sahastra) offers some hope – it turns out not everything about China is bad. BBC correspondent Mukul Devichand…

BR Hills March 21-23 Weather: Mostly overcast with occasional light rain Scarlet Minivet Pericrocotus flammeus Small Minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus Bay-backed Shrike Lanius vittatus Chestnut-tailed Starling Sturnus malabaricus Large Cuckooshrike Coracina macei Indian Bushlark Mirafra erythroptera Chestnut-shouldered Petronia Petronia xanthocollis Yellow-billed Babbler Turdoides affinis Rufous Babbler Turdoides subrufa Tawny-bellied Babbler Dumetia…

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In God’s own jungle Whoever named Butea monosperma the Flame of the Forest was undoubtedly a poet. And it is poetry that this magnificent tree lends to the forest landscape of Biligiri Rangaswamy Betta (B.R. Hills). However, the morning on which Sahastra, Arun and I landed in B.R. Hills was…