Shailendra Yashwant

Kerala, Mahārāshtra

Writer, Photographer and Environment Journalist at Freelance

Independent Environmental Photographer, Writer, Journalist | Words @SanctuaryAsia @DeccanHerald | Sr. Advisor @CANSouthAsia | Str. Com. member @ToxicfreeIndia |

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Articles

No, it is not possible to clean up Yamuna in three years

Feb 21, 2025 | deccanherald.com | Shailendra Yashwant

No, it is not possible to clean up Yamuna in three yearsYou can pour thousands of tonnes of cement to beautify its riverfront or build biodiversity parks and paint the ghats, but as long as the focus remains on cleaning the river and not stopping the pollution, it is not possible to clean up the Yamuna.
Ecocide, not eco-tourism, planned in Great Nicobar Island

Jan 8, 2025 | deccanherald.com | Shailendra Yashwant

Ecocide, not eco-tourism, planned in Great Nicobar IslandThe Great Nicobar Island Development Project requires the diversion of over 130 sq km of pre-historic tropical forest land and has been granted a stage-1 clearance leading to the felling of around 1 million trees.
COP29 | No deal would have been better than the bad deal in Baku

Nov 24, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Shailendra Yashwant

COP29 | No deal would have been better than the bad deal in BakuIf the downslide of international climate negotiations began in Copenhagen, when a dozen rich nations forced their agenda to deny and delay the need for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, it finally hit rock bottom in Baku.
Western Hypocrisy - The Main Barrier In Delivery Of Climate Finance

Oct 30, 2024 | freepressjournal.in | Shailendra Yashwant

“Nepal is diverting its resources from health and education to deal with the climate crisis,” Ain Bahadur Shahi, Minister of Forest and Environment of Nepal revealed at a media event in Kathmandu a few days after the city was devastated by massive floods following a torrential downpour that scientists have attributed to climate change.
New Delhi will never solve its air pollution problem with its myopic view

Oct 3, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Shailendra Yashwant

New Delhi will never solve its air pollution problem with its myopic viewWithout a sustained implementation strategy and economically feasible alternatives, the ban on stubble burning will be as ineffective as the plastic ban
Kerala should not sacrifice its ecosystem for weekend motorists

Sep 13, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Shailendra Yashwant

The Kerala government's plans to build an 8.7-kilometre tunnel from Anakkampoyil in Kozhikode to Meppadi in Wayanad to ease the infamous traffic congestion on weekends and holidays on the Thamarasserry Ghat Road (NH 766) is a vanity project which must be scrapped in the light of the July 30 landslides, the largest in India’s recorded history that claimed nearly 250 lives, with hundreds still missing and thousands permanently displaced from their homes.
Dahanu - A Short History Of A People’s Struggle And Chronology Of The State’s Deceit

Sep 8, 2024 | freepressjournal.in | Shailendra Yashwant

Many believe that the laying of the foundation stone of the Vadhavan Port Project in Dahanu Taluka, India’s first Supreme Court-notified “eco-fragile area”, marks the beginning of the end of biodiversity-rich forest and coastal waters, but also of a great idea, an important enviro-legal precedent, and a 30-year-long saga of a few people’s resistance against “unwanted development”.
Can the Himalayan Crisis Help Foster Regional Cooperation?

Aug 11, 2024 | freepressjournal.in | Shailendra Yashwant

“Faith is like Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change – Mahatma Gandhi,” said the graffiti painted on a portion of a school wall, that was washed away in last year’s Glacial Lake Outburst Flood event, which devastated everything in the path of the Teesta River in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India. For a long time now scientists, experts and residents have warned that the Himalayas are changing in more ways than one.
Can Climate Action Stop Wars?

Jun 16, 2024 | freepressjournal.in | Shailendra Yashwant

Of the many ongoing conflicts around the world, Russia’s war on Ukraine and the relentless conflict between Israel and Hamas — that have killed thousands of people, displaced millions, destroyed billions of dollars worth of infrastructure, and devastated forests and water bodies — are now under scrutiny for the release of an unprecedented amount of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
For the new government, sustainable development must lead to economic growth

May 26, 2024 | deccanherald.com | Shailendra Yashwant

Since the start of this century, India has lost 19 per cent of its total tree cover, much of the loss has been a consequence of wildfires, which affected of forest per year — more than twice the annual average of deforestation. According to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India, published by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), 97.84 million hectares of land in India were degraded in 2018-2019.