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St(o)ppwatch

A bi-monthly dispatch on issues surrounding coal-based power plants, air pollution, climate change, and the environment. Brings you the news that will keep you engaged, updated and part of the movement on climate action.

Edition: August 2019
Final part of a three-part introductory series on the science of geoengineering that is being portrayed as a technological fix to counteract the pernicious effects of climate crisis.
Edition: July 2019
Part two of a three-part introductory series on the science of geoengineering that is being portrayed as a technological fix to counteract the pernicious effects of climate crisis.
Edition: June 2019
Part one of a three-part introductory series on the science of geoengineering that is being portrayed as a technological fix to counteract the pernicious effects of climate crisis.
Edition: May 2019
At the start of this decade, when Tamil Nadu was reeling under an acute shortage of power, capacity addition to the tune of 50 GW was proposed. This report looks at the status of the proposed plants and finds that only one of them has been…
Edition: April 2019
In this last part of a two-part article, we will explore solutions for control and reduction of ground-level ozone. In our last issue, we looked at the harmful impacts of ground-level ozone to humans, plants, and other animals. Because ozone…
Edition: March 2019
In our last issue, we looked at how different sectors contribute to pollutants in the air we breathe, of which ozone is one of the major pollutants. Ozone is a gas that is present in Earth’s upper atmosphere (stratosphere), where it protects all…
Edition: February 2019
We live in such times where the same air that sustains life holds agents of death and disease as well, and the concentrations of the latter are increasing. Ambient air pollution is a major threat to the health and wellbeing of the global…
Edition: January 2019
On January 10 2019, India had her first ever national programme to address the air pollution issue, released by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). Considering the exigency and the magnitude of air…