Scared to leap

Amphibians in India are besieged by numerous threats

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 23, 2019)

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

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

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 …

Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that …

Urban floods: lessons from Jammu & Kashmir

Putting a stop to unmindful concretisation of lake beds and drainage channels can save cities from disastrous floods

Dangerous deal

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

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

Diabetes plan staggers

National programme to combat the disease is inadequate  

In Short

Adopt manual scavengers act, human rights commission tells states

COVID-19: Role of bayt-al-mals in J&K comes into focus amid lockdown

Bayt-al-mals look after welfare of families and in some cases, migrants, in the union territory

Government declares flood in Kashmir after Jhelum crosses danger mark

Three houses collapse in Budgam district, 16 members of a family buried under rubble, 21 reportedly missing

Pentavalent vaccine approved in five more states. Health ministry brushes aside safety concerns

Four children in Kerala reportedly died immediately after the vaccine was administered

India

Polluted to the brim

Infant deaths in J&K: ill babies given pentavalent vaccine, says PUDR

Report of health experts deputed by civil society group says infants did not receive timely medical care when they developed serious reaction

Pinewood smoke: Cause of lung problems

South Asia

Environment ministry approves mining near Vaishno Devi shrine

Trikuta wildlife sanctuary to be denotified

Whose homeland security?

Maize Mania

Maize has become the queen of cereals, courted by state governments, seed companies, farmers and the feedstock and starch industries as the crop …