Gram sewaks protest NREGS pressure
Nine gram sewaks have committed suicide in past one year due to work stress
Lessons from two cities
Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …
Centre pitches for Kerala
Environment ministry wants to revoke Karnataka’s ban on night traffic in Bandipur
Bay in distress
A proposed shipyard threatens the rich biodiversity of a south Goa bay, but government is unmoved
Delhi High Court orders shifting of biomedical waste incinerator from Okhla
Residents hope it will pave the way for shifting of Jindal's waste-to-energy plant
High court directs Bengaluru civic body to segregate waste at source
Court to monitor transition to full segregation and processing
Irongate opened
Shah Commission report shows how authorities, mine owners stripped Goa of iron
Enforce gutkha ban in Delhi: high court
Forum of doctors had sought ban; cited increasing incidence of oral and lung cancers
Will Andhra governor cancel mining leases?
Centre returns bauxite mining proposals in Schedule V areas
People boycott magisterial inquiry into Sompeta, Kakarapalli firing
Say have no faith in the inquiry
Koyna sanctuary plundered
Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary is threatened by ceaseless loot of land, with government help
Cost of marble
Mining in Rajasthan's Rishab Dev tehsil, the only place in the country that produces green marble, registered 6,681 times growth in 14 years. But …
Remembering 2013 Uttarakhand Floods
In June 2013, flashfloods in Uttarakhand wiped out settlements and decimated lives. Here’s a throwback to our investigation into the …
Oil company seeks legal nod to barge into marine park
How can one conserve a wildlife sanctuary better? By flagrantly trespassing on one part of it. Then picking up the tab for planting trees on …
Jharkhand High Court directs removal of coal dumps from Damodar river bank
Coal waste dumps of Purnadih mines polluting the river
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 14, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Gujarat High Court halts work at Mundra SEZ
Bench questions commencement of work without environmental clearance
Court orders fresh public hearing for Lanco power plant in Wardha
Declines to grant stay on environmental clearance
Vedanta falters in Odisha
High court upholds Centre’s decision, rejects refinery expansion
Wind farm threat to forests
Blasting causes animals and birds to abandon the area
Towards zero discharge
Two textile cities, Tirupur and Ludhiana, explore ways to stop effluent discharge into streams
Wheels are turning
Let’s share cars; take a bus or metro; cycle or walk
Madras High Court stays implementation of some provisions of Food Safety Act
Traders have been protesting the Act saying it is impractical and harsh
'Is Dabolim project in forest area?'
High court seeks status report from Goa's forest department in eight weeks
Reserved for exploitation?
Karnataka repeatedly refuses to declare its forests in Western Ghats inviolate