Dictionary-defined ‘forests’ will be out of forest laws?
Government proposes amendments to the Forest Conservation Act reasoning current laws not encouraging plantation, forest creation and mounting …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 3, 2020)
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 (May 29, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 4, 2020)
Indigenous peoples sue Ecuador govt, oil firms over spill
On April 7, 2 oil pipelines had spilled 15,000 barrels of crude oil into 2 of Ecuador's most important rivers
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 13, 2020)
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (February 23-28, 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&…
Physical stores emit more GHG than home delivery, less than online stores
Study by European researchers assessed three types of shopping including traditional and two types of online
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 25, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 20, 2020)
Only 38% UN members have laws for minimum lead concentration in paints
This is worrying as lead contamination can have adverse health impacts on humans
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 29, 2019)
सीएसई ने जारी की भारत के उर्वरक उद्योग की पर्यावरणीय रेटिंग
सीएसई और ग्रीन रेटिंग प्रोजेक्ट की ग्रेडिंग रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि उर्वरक उद्योग ऊर्जा इस्तेमाल और ग्रीन हाउस गैस उत्सर्जन के मामले ...
US Virgin Islands approves bill to ban toxic sunscreen
Sunscreens with chemicals — oxybenzone or octinoxate — can cause death among developing corals and increase coral bleaching
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 25-31)
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 29-May 3)
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 8-12)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 12, 2019)
Now, Arctic’s oldest and strongest ice starts to melt
This ‘last ice area’, which had never seen ice melting, saw its ice break twice this year owing to global warming
Monsoon plays truant in food bowl of India; rainfall deficit increases
So far, rainfall in the Indo-Gangetic plain has remained deficient, with last week recording largely deficient rain
Consumers, private sector crucial for fighting drought, land degradation: UN
Currently, policy instruments and investments to promote the spread of sustainable land management technologies are non-existent
IMD commissions new ensemble prediction systems to improve monsoon forecast
The new 10-day probabilistic forecasts will be able to provide rainfall forecasts with probabilities according to rainfall intensities
'Three of us were killed last year, but we continue to protect our forests'
Guardians of the Amazon, a tribe in the forests sent this message to the Brazilian government to help them protect an uncontacted tribe and their …
Urban trees can tackle pollution, heat waves
A report points out trees and other types of vegetation, when planted along a city street or grown in a park or residential yard, provide …
Microplastics on agricultural lands may threaten farm productivity: study
Between 110,000 and 730,000 tonnes of microplastics are transferred to agricultural soils in Europe and North America every year