World Water Day: How mining is depleting groundwater in Rajasthan’s Alwar
Illegal mining in the Aravalli Hills has destroyed hillocks, brought prosperity to locals and depleted the groundwater table
People goaded to save their forests
Fed up with government inaction on mining and deforestation in the Aravallis, the people of the region are taking it upon themselves to end the …
At the feet of poverty
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In Court
SC rebukes Haryana govt for throwing open Aravallis for realtors, miners
The apex court asked the state to not amend the Punjab Land Preservation Act that “favours builders”
The Eklingapura experience
A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.
Requiem for wasteland development
Aravalis mining ban
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 14, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Haryana's move to expose Aravallis to 'development' may turn Delhi into a desert
Already vulnerable gaps in the hills may no longer be able to protect north India from the Thar
Digging their own grave
Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …
Rajasthan's ambitions
Order toned down
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 27, 2023)
Healthy move, say environmentalists,hegemony, complain states
The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli …
The Himalayas are fraying — but an interdisciplinary approach can help us save it
Ecologists and agricultural scientists at recent conference in Meghalaya brought up impacts of human economy on hilly and mountain ecosystems
Aravallis: A mountain lost
The mountain range's role in defining the shape of the Indian subcontinent and its climate, and the fact that it triggered the explosion of …
Digging the earth
Earlier it was deforestation, now it is mining that threatens the once stately Aravallis with total destruction
Decline of the Aravallis
The pressure on land threatens the vivid and spectacular biodiversity of these hills
Sylvan suburbia: Why a forest corridor between Delhi and Haryana needs legal protection
Apart from housing rich wildlife, the forest corridor spread across Gurugram, Faridabad and the Asola Sanctuary also protects the National …
Aravallis razed
Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining
What will Supreme Court judgement on Aravalli mean for forest conservation?
Changes to conservation rules may be fast tracked, say activists
Razing Aravalls (Video Special)
Residents of Harla ki Dhani in Rajasthan discuss effects of illegal mining in the Aravallis