DTE Impact: Assam-based activist writes to Supreme Court; demands transparency on elephant transfer to Vantara

Vehicle carrying cow elephant Pratima and her calf had been stopped in Assam en route to the Reliance Zoo in Jamnagar, as reported by DTE

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 12, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 15, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal

Warm temperatures for prolonged periods may have led to massive pest attack in Assam

28,000 hectares of paddy crop in 15 districts destroyed by armyworm

Activist arrested while protesting against upcoming biorefinery in Assam

Soneswar Narah was addressing a public meeting of residents affected by the biorefinery 

Multi-stakeholder approach needed to address Assam’s vulture poisoning incidents

Farmers set poisoned meat to kill dogs, but vultures die in huge numbers, leaving few records of dog mortality

Assam to revist Kharif crop calendar to counter effects of erratic monsoon

Yield of rice, the state's major crop, has been affected by unpredictable rainfall patterns

Monsoon 2021: Skewed withdrawal again; do we blame climate change?

The southwest monsoon season may withdraw later than normal in 2021, an event that would happen for 11th year in a row

Green campus done right: This Assam university sets an example

How Assam Don Bosco University weaves climate action, preservation of flora and fauna, management of water resources in its green initiatives …

Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Involving indigenous people in environmental governance — the Sixth Schedule way

Customary practices of the North East’s tribal population are harmonious with nature. Extensive recognition and conferment of rights over …

Assam reels under unseasonal heat wave, water shortage

It is related to global warming and the delay in the pre-monsoon rainfall, says Met expert

Subansiri dam: green tribunal issues notices to NHPC, government

Petition seeks minimum flow in the river to protect Gangetic dolphins and other life forms

What lurks beneath the Network

Every northeastern state reports loss in forest cover: State of India’s Forest Report 2021

Manipur recorded the largest loss in forest cover

From being stranded to being free

How six elephant calves were rescued and brought back to the wild

Dodgy doses

UNICEF in dock over vitamin A fortification programme

ONGC's seismic surveys in Assam affect heritage monuments

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 7, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Importance of lakes not realised enough: Flood control chief

Sharad Chandra, director, flood forecast monitoring division, Central Water Commission, spoke to DTE on increasing instances of urban flooding&…

Flood fury

Floods claim hundreds of lives across India besides causing large-scale destruction, Bihar is the worst-affected

Monsoon of death

Every monsoon, Baba Raghav Das Medical College of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, witnesses hundreds of children dying of viral encephalitis or Acute …

Unexpected ‘snow’ covering Assam town hail deposits: Experts

Freakish storm damages 4,000 houses in Moran; Rabi crops affected

Rhinos in trouble

Poaching and encroachments threaten one-horned rhionos at Orang National Park

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