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Environment Ministry Approves Projects for Climate Change Adaptation in Three States	19.7.2017	Govt of india: PIB
The Environment Ministry today approved three projects for climate change adaptation in three states. The National Steering Committee on Climate Change (NSCCC), under the Chairmanship of Secretary MoEF&CC, Shri Ajay Narayan Jha, approved the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) submitted by Governments of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Sikkim for funding under the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC).
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Lesson from Yawal	18.7.2017	FrontLine: Environment
Contrary to the impression sought to be created, Yawal Wildlife Sanctuary offers an excellent example of how gram sabhas, with help from local organisations and government agencies, can use the FRA to transform a sanctuary on the brink of ecological and social disaster into a thriving habitat for wildlife. By NEEMA PATHAK BROOME and YAGYASHREE KUMAR
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A green drive with dual aim	18.7.2017	Hindu: News
15,000 vetiver saplings planted along the Vamanapuram river
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Environment Minister to Dedicate NCSCM to the Nation Tomorrow	14.7.2017	Govt of india: PIB
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is embarking on a new National Coastal Mission. With this objective in view, Environment Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan will dedicate the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM) to the nation at Chennai, tomorrow
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‘Home’ is not too far for TN tribes	11.7.2017	TOI: Chennai

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Time for GST II - Graft and Sleaze Tax	4.7.2017	Sify Finance

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Google integrates Brazil's indigenous territories into its maps	2.7.2017	All News-IANS Stories
In a bid to prevent deforestation and preserve culture, Google on Sunday announced the integration of Brazil's indigenous territories into its maps.
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Summer sowing does wonders	1.7.2017	Hindu: Hyderabad
Panchayat experiment shows the way
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Accommodating an indigenous history	30.6.2017	Hindu: Crafts
India’s financial capital does infantilise its own indigenous history. But it also celebrates the past
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Global wildfires are burning less land	30.6.2017	New Kerala: World News
Global wildfires are burning less land
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Boljang villagers transform wasteland into green forest	29.6.2017	The Assam Tribune
Boljang villagers transform wasteland into green forest
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Collective rights prevail over private ownership	24.6.2017	Hindu: Kerala
Tribespeople say individual ownership could lead to fragmentation of land
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Kings of the Dang	23.6.2017	Hindu: Arts
Every year, this tribal district sees an extravagant darbar, the legacy of a 19th century colonial custom
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Pushed out of the woods	23.6.2017	HBL: Home
In the scramble to save the endangered tiger and its home in the forest, tribal families in Odisha’s Similipal reserve have lost theirs, as justice eludes them under the Forest Rights Act
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Give us identity cards: tribal people	21.6.2017	Hindu: News
Tired of being questioned whether they were Maoist sympathizers and also over their political affiliations, the tribal residents of Nedugal Combai village in the Nilgiris have demanded that the police...
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Sorapet tank desilting to be taken up under MNREGA	18.6.2017	Hindu: Cities
Youth of the village volunteer to take part in the exercise; saplings to be planted along the bund
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Ronald & Donald: From Reaganian history to Trumpian future of planet Earth (Comment: Special to IANS)	16.6.2017	All News-IANS Stories
"Tear down this wall," Ronald Reagan, former Republican President of the US, challenged Mikhail Gorbachev in his speech at Brandenburg Gate, in Germany, exactly this week of June in 1987.
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INTERVIEW-Mexico's native crops hold key to food security - ecologist	13.6.2017	DNA: Evolutions
By Sophie Hares TEPIC, Mexico, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mexico's ancient civilisations cultivated crops such as maize, tomatoes and chillies for thousands of years before the Spanish conquerors arrived - and now those native plants could hold the key to sustainable food production as climate change bites, said a leading ecologist.
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Public participation in conservation helps protect biodiversity in China	13.6.2017	Latest News
16,400 jobs as guards with a $260 monthly salary will be offered to villagers living inside a park
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4-lane road to cut through elephant corridor	13.6.2017	TOI: All Headlines
4-lane road to cut through elephant corridor
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