A system in shambles

Weak, corrupt and ineffective implementing institutions make compliance and enforcement of environmental laws abysmally poor in India. Can …

Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Monkey relocation plan: Urban bias?

COVID-19: Confusion, chaos plague Himachal over e-pass violation

Several returnees lying to obtain e-pass, violating home quarantine, allege sources

Strangers in their own land

The final notification of the Great Himalayan National Park has jeopardised the livelihood of a tribe of migratory pastoralists. It has also …

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

Against the flow

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 14, 2023)

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

The fortnight in brief

Himachal villages are first to claim forests rights, J&K's Russian poplars to be felled, Delhi's increasing appetite for power …

Let there be CFL

See the light CFL is becoming popular in India with a little help from government schemes. But its wide-scale use requires regulation

The PDS learning curve

Tike tike in Orissa

How Baddi pharma waste can make your medicines ineffective

The waste contains active ingredients used in antibiotics and may be contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. It is time to …

UTTARKASHI

Houses that hold on

Ranbaxy expansion in a ferment

How consumers were won

Dangerous deal

To promote development in hilly states, a committee recommends dilution of forest clearance rules, reward for setting up projects

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 27-31, 2020)

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

Stop all hydroelectric projects in Himalayan region to avoid a Joshimath repeat: Experts

Ecological assessment pending for hydropower project plans in Himachal

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

View from the top

Planners must stop looking down at hill-stations

Centre, state battle over electricity

Plague is spreading to new areas

No pesticides no debts

Bee farms to shops

Big firms control honey supply