Like human beings and animals, nature should get the status of a legal person and its rights should be protected, said former Karnataka High Court Judge P. Krishna Bhat here on Saturday. Speaking after inaugurating the two-day conference on, ‘The changing scenario of environmental jurisprudence,’ at SDM Law College, Mr. Bhat said the founding fathers of the Indian Constitution did …
Every autumn, the male satin bowerbird forages both the forests and suburbs of Australia in search of the color blue — berries, discarded bottle caps, plastic straws — and arranges his finds around a pile of sticks. “Queerness shows up everywhere in every single kingdom on planet Earth.” When I think of what an environmentalist looks like, someone like Pattie …
