Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 2, 2024)

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

Up in smoke: Bandhwari dumpsite fire underscores need to overhaul waste management practices in Gurugram

The landfill caught fire around 8-8.30 pm on April 22, 2024

World Earth Day 2024: Urgent need to stop marine plastic pollution

On World Earth Day, join for an urgent call to halt marine plastic pollution  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 19, 2024)

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

Simply Put: Of wonders and blunders

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 28, 2024)

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

Building children’s agenda: Political parties should consider children as equal citizens

Political parties should organise consultations with children, parents and child-focused groups to increase trust and understand issues better

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 13, 2024)

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

DTE Call for Action: How has the rooftop solar potential and market evolved in India

India has seen significant growth in rooftop solar, most of it in just the last 3 years

What we know so far about the volcanic eruption in Iceland

There would not be the same level of disruption as 2010, experts say

As told to Parliament (December 4, 2023): PM10 concentration improved in 90 out of 131 cities

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

DTE Call For Action: Closing the waste loop for sustainability

The agenda for construction and demolition waste is to ensure collection of the waste, its transportation and its reuse and recycling …

AMR Awareness Week: Behavioural, organisational and environmental aspects are vital for containing resistance

Problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours; multisectoral and multidimensional efforts required

How colistin went from ‘holy water’ in medicine to ‘sewage’ of resistance

The antimicrobial resistance crisis is affecting even the efficiency of medicines like colistin, whose use is reserved for cases where other …

Simply Put: A celebration not so cricket

Simply Put: Toxic creche

India’s cotton yield may be lowest in 15 years, to drop by 20%

Cotton Association of India attributes yield loss to pink bollworm infestation, El Nino climate pattern

Simply Put: Caught in an antibiotics web

Papers show what lay behind Condé regime’s Ebola denialism in Guinea

While the outbreak worsened during March-October 2014, Guinea downplayed the epidemic

Simply Put: Nonviolence

Simply put: Adjusting to inflation

Simply Put: The Great Retreat

Debates That Matter (E-book)

Simply Put: The great debate

GM mustard: SC adjourns hearing; sowing trials may not take place this season

Biotech regulator GEAC, ICAR can sow latest by Nov 15; SC to hear case Nov 17