‘Ambarnath chemical accident everyday occurrence in Thane area’

Residents allege state pollution control board has been allowing industries to pollute Ulhaas river and its tributaries by circumventing court orders

Scorching salt

As the world celebrates yet another Environment Day, groups of marginalized people in some part of the globe or the other get evicted from their …

Contamination

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Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Gutter will sparkle

Ludhiana is going all out to clean up Buddha Nallah, the sole receptacle of its industrial filth

Choked on salt

Illegal salt making threatens Sambhar Lake’s ecology

Stink of India's steel frame

The Bhopal legacy: reworking corporate liability

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 10, 2020)

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

Steeled up

Unable to bear pollution any longer, people in Kotdwar force Uttarakhand to commission an independent assessment of steel factories in the region

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

Interstate dirty dumpers

Industrial units illegally dump hazardous waste in remote fields, often crossing state borders, to dodge the law and cut costs. ravleen kaur …

Kumbh: time to come clean

Operation Saranda: from Maoists to Miners

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When Vishnu sleeps

Polluting units shut in Kaziranga

Green tribunal fines state, Centre for allowing stone crushers, brick kilns near Assam park

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will

More cities critically polluted

Tighter norms make air we breathe more poisonous

Stream of ash

State-run thermal power plant pollutes rivulet; disturbs livelihood and health of people in 27 Andhra Pradesh villages

Public pressure mounts to check pollution from industrial area in Solan

NGOs organise community meeting to record grievances and demand action against pollution from Baddi Barotiwala Nalagarh industrial area

Vapi tops list of critically polluted areas

Environmentalists call for re-imposing moratorium on industrial town in Gujarat

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