Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 23, 2019)

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

Tajpur and Haldia: How coastal development is impacting fishing in West Bengal

A deep-sea port is to be constructed in Tajpur and eight more jetties are to come up in an already industrialised Haldia, but no official has …

Eco-sensitive regions could see flurry of construction activity as draft CRZ notification suggests

The new notification allows construction of hotels and beach resorts within 50 metres of the shorelines

News 360° - Briefs

New rules for coasts

Environment ministry notifies CRZ 2011. It has pro-builder bias, say fishers and activists

Living on the edge

Coastal South Asia is fragile and vulnerable to climate change impacts. Yet, governments are setting up industries, ports and promoting tourism …

Costly sops

Green laws to be diluted

Riding the waves

Adaptive sampling, a new oceanographic technique, will provide an accurate picture of complicated coastal environments

Watered down?

The Union government plans to dilute the coastal regulation zone norms

COASTAL CURBS

PROTECT COASTLINE

Master plan ahoy

Root remedy

Bay watch!

COASTAL WATERS OF THE WORLD: TRENDS, THREATS, AND STRATEGIES·Don Hinrichsen· Island Press, Washington, 1997· 276 pages

COASTLINE CONSERVATION

Un'tidy' relocation

Tamil Nadu's post-tsunami coastal regulation bid is misdirected

Healthy dip

New legislation for bathing areas in Europe

COSTA RICA

Charting a new course

SOUTH AFRICA

PLEA DISMISSED

Fisherfolk to strike work

ECOLOGY PROTECTION

Follow Up

Political aftershock

Why Sri lanka's coastal regulations can't be effective