Should customs concessions be withdrawn?

Proposal by manufacturers to withdraw import concessions on certain pesticides is resented by farmers who fear that it will result in major price …

Irrigation policy

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Crop cover insurance

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Aravalis mining ban

From bricks to black dust

As traditional coal-run brick kilns in Kaithal turn polluters, moves are afloat to shift them out of villages

Death pits darken green fields in Haryana

Carbon dioxide trapped in pits built for tubewell motors in Haryana's green revolution districts have killed hundreds of farm-workers. Scientists …

The acre-feet fuss

But Punjab and Haryana farmers depend on groundwater!

Haryana shuts 41 slaughter houses

Action part of crackdown on pollution, illegal slaughter and cruelty to animals

Gurgaon expansion halted

High court bars authorities from sanctioning new real estate projects to curb rampant groundwater exploitation    

Paper tiger? Punjab Pollution Control Board not able to recover environmental fines imposed in last 2 years

Punjab government’s move is a mockery of the law, at a time when environmental pollution is becoming deadly and dangerous

How paddy affects: Groundwater table in this Karnal village is now at 1,000 feet

Ardana farmers do not want to grow any other crops besides wheat and paddy since the government offers MSP only on them

Managing greywater: A Haryana village shows the way

Pond-based greywater treatment systems in Kurak Jagir village in Karnal district, Haryana, absorb greywater 

Rooftop solar generation: Why Delhi government schools fare better than others

Delhi government has set up rooftop solar in its 150 schools; similar projects in Rajasthan and Haryana are yet to take off  

Future shock: The leaning towers of Najafgarh Jheel

Why construction activity around the southwest Delhi water body is a recipe for disaster  

COVID-19 lockdown halts crop damage assessment in Haryana

Heavy rain, hail in first half of March had caused widespread damage to wheat and mustard   

Stubble burning down in Punjab, Haryana, UP since 2016: NASA maps

Data from the agency shows that all three states have made progress in reducing stubble burning between 2016 and 2019

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 12, 2019)

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

Haryana police encroaches upon forest land to build training centre, residential complex: RTI

At both the sites, the cops have not procured any permissions and cut thousands of fully grown trees

Toxic air engulfs Delhi-NCR, worse yet to come

Western disturbance may reach North India on November 1 with dust from Pakistan and the Thar Desert and if wind speeds remain low, the dust will …

Incessant rainfall continues to batter north India

While Himachal Pradesh and Punjab are the worst hit, Haryana and J&K too get much more than their normal September rainfall

Supreme Court directs Centre to prepare national disaster plan to tackle drought

The apex court has directed the Union government to revise the Drought Management Manual at the earliest till the end of 2016

Healthy move, say environmentalists,hegemony, complain states

The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli …

Lost birds

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