Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Cyclone Freddy travelled from Australia to batter Madagascar, one of the most climate-vulnerable nations
The world’s fourth-largest island is suffering a drought since 2018; cyclones and also the first famine caused by climate change
Climate anxiety deters 61% youth in Egypt from having children
Some 85% people globally agree that poor people will suffer the most from the impact of climate change
Most internal displacement in East Africa’s Burundi due to rise of Lake Tanganyika
Hundreds of displaced families surveyed said they have no hope of returning home
No plan to desilt Kosi: Bihar govt
There is no technique to desilt the Kosi, Bihar water resources minister told the assembly on March 4, 2020
Resource literacy of the poor
We must invest in economies of poor, build capacities so they can withstand & overcome calamity
Pakistan’s mountain communities brace for flash floods
Early warning systems and better weather forecasting have become a matter of life and death for communities facing more frequent and intense …
Disease outbreak feared due to Chennai floods
A survey done in the city has found that 90 per cent population is unable to access safe water or food
Prioritising people
Overwhelming negative response towards the World Bank-sponsored Flood management plan to be implemented in Bangladesh, saw the government and …
Assam drenched, devastated
After the heat wave the deluge. Flash floods, triggered by torrential rains over the past two weeks, have rendered at least four lakh people …
Assam prepares to spend Rs 40,000 crore on an economically unfeasible project
Removing excessive silt from the Brahmaputra by dredging will not solve the problem of annual floods in Assam unless the government pays …
Over 100 active permafrost structures identified in Jhelum basin, can cause catastrophic disasters in future: Study
Active rock glaciers in Kashmir Himalayas also hold significant volumes of water, which underlines the need to explore their hydrological …
Run-up to COP27: Mozambique braces for more extreme weather events as rainy season begins
Mozambique was devastated by 3 tropical cyclones earlier this year
Climate change: How India's desert states will be affected
Around half the population in these areas depend on agriculture
Cyclonic disturbance threatens crops, population in Odisha
Hilly areas are likely to face landslides and damage to kutcha roads and houses
Simply Put: Boat-life, not lifeboat
Uttarakhand's displaced
The embankment war
CHINA
Monsoon’s debut week in Himachal: Disaster toll already at 44
Wednesday’s Kullu cloudburst among 10 major incidents since rains started June 29 in hill state
Beware Hyderabad, a flood is in the making
Telangana repeals 1996 order, allows construction on 2 reservoirs that have saved Hyderabad from floods for over a century
Climate change is real: Assam tea did not see a second flush this year
Measures to mitigate the impact of climate change on the tea industry need to be urgently undertaken, say tea experts
Restore flow, rivers are self-purifying
We need to go back to the drawing board of Jackie King, the South African who won the World Water Prize 2019
India lost more than 70,000 people because of climate change-related disasters
A new report by an international thinktank Germanwatch has some bad news for India. It says that between 1998 and 2017, India lost, on an average,…
Call for business unusual
What has happened in Kerala is also happening across the world. It is an uncomfortable fact that we do not have a semblance of the plan to deal …
