Simply Put: En route to Vantara

An elephant cow and her calf being transported from Assam to Jamnagar is once again raising several questions

The transfer, on intervention of an animal rights group, shows that illegally captured & tortured elephants will have to travel as far as …

Is ban on onion exports lifted? Farmers say new notification political gimmick, past decisions recirculated during polls

Even if true, notification allows little to be exported, say farmers; new notice comes after furore over allowing exports of only Gujarat …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

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

Colossal snake fossil unearthed in Gujarat from 47 million years ago could be world’s largest

Vasuki indicus remains measure 10-15 metres long; could be comparable to current largest extinct snake Titanoboa

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  

Analysis: What does the new Supreme Court judgment mean for climate action in India?

Supreme Court says right to be free from adverse effects of climate change part of fundamental rights to life and equality

Zakariyapura — India’s climate-smart model village for biogas production & utilisation

The village has created a sustainable biogas network that not only helps women financially but also reduces their burden of household work

Sudden release of water destroyed Gujarat banana crop, allege farmers

Prices of the common man’s fruit expected to rise as standing crop falls 

The threat of Chandipura virus

Alert after blood sample of 5-year-old victim tests positive

Simply Put: Potato FC-5 variety

Cyclone Tauktae: At least 25 killed in west coast, widespread devastation in Gujarat

As many as 122 COVID-19 hospitals in the affected areas faced power outages

Simply Put: Keep away from water’s edge

Cyclone Maha: Landfall likely Nov 6

Expect rains, a rough sea, damage to crops and property

How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora

Simply Put: Natural disasters in Gujarat

Simply Put: The Kerala Model

Cyclone Tauktae likely to hit coastal Gujarat

It may make landfall in Gujarat by the evening of May 18

COVID-19: 300-400 Maldhari families from Gujarat stranded in Chhattisgarh

Pastoralists seen as ‘corona carriers’ in state

Do India's poor need coal from Adani's Carmichael mine?

Not if it restricts the Indian consumer’s options to source affordable energy

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis

Just transition in petrochemicals: Bharuch’s industrial cluster is negatively impacting its ‘white gold’, cotton

The proliferation of petrochemicals units in Bharuch district has led to smoke plumes and chemicals leaks; cotton farms are dying consequently

COVID-19: Gujarat forest dept officials allegedly torched huts, fields

The state’s forest officials told villagers to evict land or face consequences

Simply Put: Poisoned Punjab

Cyclone Tauktae shows why north Indian Ocean is now whacky

Cyclone Tauktae's pace of intensification and the duration of its roar were unexpected