Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 10-14, 2020)

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

To play or not to play? Cricket matches despite toxic air raise questions on pollution guidelines

World Cup match on November 6 in Delhi went ahead despite ‘severe’ air for four days in a row

Delhi’s poor air days start, will only deteriorate

Dip in temperature, calm surface winds and steady increase in farm fires in Punjab and Haryana reason for poor air quality 

Parched capital

While Delhi struggles to make rainwater harvesting compulsory even after 13 years of amending byelaws, Chennai shows the way

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 23, 2020)

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

G20 and Delhi: Slum dwellers rendered homeless as city ‘decks up’ for summit

Worse, the government has not proposed a plan to resettle the displaced

Indian cities among places with highest rise in exposure to extreme heat: Study

Dhaka in Bangladesh added the highest person-days of deadly heat & humidity

Diwali amid COVID-19: Delhi air quality deteriorates as evening progresses

It could hit emergency levels if there is increased emission from firecrackers

Delhi serosurvey says novel coronavirus infected 6 mln; how do we read this?

There’s more to be done before betting on herd immunity

Delhi tops in Asia among childhood cancers in boys in 0-14 yrs age group

Ratio of cancer in children to overall cancer cases declines marginally

Anumita Roychoudhury: Unlocking the traffic gridlocks in Delhi neighbourhoods

Life after hail

The curious case of Delhi’s proposed tunnels—if you cannot solve something, make it more complex

This trained urban designer relearns urban planning, desi-style

Dirty politics

Fuel from fruit

Deafening silence

The dangerously high level of benzene in Delhi's air speaks volumes

Nightmare festivals

There is growing concern over the pollution caused by festivals like Diwali

Follow Up

Hop, skip and sidestep

YAMUNA POLLUTION

Devil in the diesel

Unhealthy decision?

A new bill on environment-related risks is rejected by the Delhi Assembly

CLOSE POLLUTING INDUSTRIES

Japan to fund study

It's money, honey

Auto drivers in Delhi will soon realise that CNG makes for good economics