Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Unintended consequences: Street vendors in India struggle amid the single-use plastic ban
Voting without voters: In Uttar Pradesh, areas with low turnout are hubs of migrant workers
Lack of scientific debate and involvement of all stakeholders will not help Project Tiger succeed
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 2, 2024)
Communities in Chhattisgarh & Uttar Pradesh are using tech, on-ground monitoring to reduce human-elephant conflicts
Engaging communities in conservation efforts is critical as India is witnessing an increase in conflicts between people and pachyderms
Jalpaiguri disaster: Tornadoes a symptom of warming & anomalous wind patterns
While tornadoes mostly occur in India's eastern states, some have been reported in the northwest regions as well
Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan discusses ageing and death in new book
A restricted diet and proper sleep may play a key role in a long and healthy life
Kishanganj maize farmers at wit’s end as elephant herds from Nepal raid standing crop days ahead of harvest
Although such events have occurred in the past too, their frequency has gone up, say forest officials
Voting without voters: Migrant workers in Odisha’s Nuapada unable to afford trip home to cast ballot
About 75,000 workers in district are migrant labourers and 63,000 of them eligible voters
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 1, 2024)
IMD predicts a scorching summer for 2024
People may not get much respite from the heat even during the nights, predicts agency
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 28, 2024)
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India’s parched rivers: At least 13 without water, much lower than same period last year
With peak summer days ahead, condition particularly alarming for farmlands that make up 60% of basin
Voting without voters: Uttar Pradesh migrant workers to be home for paddy transplantation next, may skip Lok Sabha polls
Migrant workers came back home for Holi, won't be able to come back for the crucial electoral process
West Bengal farmers shift from wheat to lucrative banana, lentils and maize cultivation
Cultivation area of maize has increased eightfold and tripled for pulses in last decade
For a decade, earnings of regular salaried & self-employed Indians have been declining: ILO
At the all-India level, 40.8% of regular workers and 51.9% of casual workers did not receive the average daily ...
Indians may already be experiencing temperatures close to limits of human survivability without even being aware
The basic criteria for IMD to declare a heatwave currently does not take into account relative humidity, which is ...
In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS
Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme
India needs more representative national food waste studies, says latest UN report
Food waste can be halved through concerted, collaborative effort, advises UN analysis
Voting without voters: Bihar migrant workers forced to sacrifice ballot rights due to financial strain
Require special provisions, free trips home to participate in democratic process
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 27, 2024)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 26, 2024)
Nature-based solutions can help Sundarbans survive
Mangroves hold crucial resources that can help protect the rich and diverse biosphere
Ladakh wants to prevent what happened in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand & Sikkim: Sonam Wangchuk
Environmentalist says his fast a ‘battle for truth, environment & democracy’ as others call for ‘People’s Commission for Himalayas’