Learning curve: E-Mobility stories from India’s hilly terrains

Shimla, Agartala, Guwahati are steadily switching to electric buses for public transport

Explained: Why north India didn't get the December rainfall it usually does

Here’s a deep dive into why strong western disturbances hit the region just once last month

Indian states’ implementation of plastic ban a mixed bag

Tamil Nadu is the latest entrant to the band of Indian states that have banned single-use plastics; here’s a status update on all of them

Sewage treatment plant failure leads to jaundice outbreak in Shimla

More than 1,000 people get jaundice as city’s sewage mixes with the drinking water supply

Pollution fears cloud future of cement plants

The announcement that more cement factories will be set up in the state has unleashed a controversy. Units already operational have not …

Supreme Court approves Shimla Development Plan, activists call it ‘unfortunate’

The NGT’s November 2017 verdict had prohibited construction on buildings above two floors and the attic floor in the Shimla planning area

North India Deluge 2023: Development projects compounding destruction in Himachal Pradesh, say experts 

Losses of Rs 4,000 crore in the state after 3 days of torrential rain 

Trends in high places

Traditional timber-and-slate houses vs a neo-concrete nightmare in a Himachal village

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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 26, 2023)

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

A third of monitored antibiotic manufacturers in Himachal found to be polluting

Direct emissions from the pharma industry are a hotspot of antibiotic residues since they are discharged in larger concentrations than other …

Two steps ahead

After becoming the first large state to achieve total sanitation, Himachal Pradesh is all geared up to manage its waste and ensure cleanliness. …

Path lab in a tablet

Kanav Kahol, an expert on biomedical informatics, quit his teaching job in the US and came back to India to create a technology that would …

Weather anomalies driven by climate change cause scanty rain, snow in post-monsoon India

This can affect the yield of Rabi crops in these regions and also availability of water in the mountains in general

North India Deluge 2023: Lahaul-Spiti’s cold desert receives a third of seasonal rain in a day

A village in the district has also received snow in July, a highly unusual phenomenon

Half of all snakebite cases in the world from India, finds study

ICMR finds only 30% of snakebite victims in rural India reach hospital

Monsoon 2022: Himachal sees 7 cloudbursts, 31 flash floods in a month

Cold desert region affected; 133 deaths due to calamities reported in state

Small farmers, daily wagers take to vegetable retail selling in Himachal due to lockdown

The development is being seen as a positive outcome of the COVID-19 lockdown

Western disturbance to impact many parts of India

A wet weekend is in store for northern and central India

Green drink

Himachal Pradesh budget announces green development scholarship scheme, boost to natural farming

Provisions worth Rs 582 crore for farmers; MSP for wheat, maize, milk increased

Dam safety can no longer be ignored if we are to avoid a repeat of Himachal and South Lhonak Lake

Dam authorities have to be more transparent and vigilant; Flood plain zoning of rivers needs to be done on war footing if we are to manage floods …

Incessant rainfall brings north India to its knees

The IMD said the intense rainfall over north India is because of an interaction between a western disturbance and monsoonal winds

On thin ice: Less snow, high temperatures have upturned lives in Himalayan cold desert

Ladakh’s Average temperature has increased in last 3 decades while precipitation had reduced; Rainfall has also decreased in Lahaul-…