Jammu and Kashmir: NHAI ‘killing’ our trees, say anguished farmers

The past six months have seen fruit trees in both the Kashmir Valley and Jammu region being uprooted by NHAI to build new roads

Russian poplars and COVID-19: Myths, facts and the road ahead

The Jammu and Kashmir administration ordered felling of female Russian poplars to contain COVID-19 spread; the high court ordered a stay 

IMA slams the Lancet on Kashmir editorial

The medical journal has reacted to an internal administrative decision of India under the garb of concern for the health of Kashmiris, said the …

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Justice at last

J&K government shuts down polluting stone-crushing units

Shooting up

Cancer in violence-torn J&K

Faith's filth

Waste of pilgrims threatens Pahalgam's ecology

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 11, 2023)

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

Carnivorous alligator gar, the latest threat for Srinagar’s idyllic Dal Lake?

Scientists fear the presence of the non-native fish will harm the fragile flora and fauna of Dal Lake

World Bee Day: Climate change may be causing an apple crisis in Himachal and Kashmir this year; here’s how

A decline in native and foreign bees due to change in weather and the use of pesticides means that apple production in both areas may take a hit

DTE Reportage: How Joshimath has rung alarm bells across India’s Himalayan states

Down To Earth tracks ground situations in Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal, Sikkim, Assam and Manipur

Here is why India has given notice to Pakistan for amendment of the Indus Waters Treaty

In all the five meetings held from 2017 to 2022, Pakistan has objected to India’s hydropower projects

Kashmir’s harsh winter, a constant theme in its literature, does not exist anymore: Neerja Mattoo

Down To Earth talks to Kashmiri litterateur Neerja Mattoo as the Valley goes through the last days of Chillai Kalan this season  

NGT questions clearances; halts mining at Shaliganga Nallah in Kashmir

The Shaliganga Nallah in Budgam is a feeding channel for the Hokersar Wetland Reserve, an internationally declared Ramsar site and home …

Leopard rescued from heart of Jammu city after it mauls three

An adult leopard has been brought to the Manda rescue centre in Jammu after injuring three people in the city

Why Jammu’s Jal Shakti daily wagers are on hunger strike

As many as 21,000 workers of the Jal Shakti department (formerly Public Health Engineering Department) claimed to have not received wages in 4 months

Jammu’s youth are trying to save river Tawi but they need support

Tawi, a major source of drinking water for Jammu residents, has turned into a garbage dump

Leopard killed, skinned amid COVID-19 lockdown in Kashmir

The animal was killed in retaliation after it attacked a village in Kulgam district and injured several people

Incessant rainfall continues to batter north India

While Himachal Pradesh and Punjab are the worst hit, Haryana and J&K too get much more than their normal September rainfall

Kathua incident reveals threats to pastoral nomads of Jammu & Kashmir

The gruesome Kathua rape was a reminder of the institutional denial of forest and land rights of Jammu and Kashmir's nomadic communities

One more to go

There are no revenue records for a wetland in Srinagar. Is that why it is being encroached and constructed upon by the government?

Human-bear conflict in Kashmir can be solved

Though human-bear conflict in the Kashmir Valley has shown a sharp increase in the last one-and-a-half decade, it can be solved by proper strategy

Hangul conservation takes backseat in Kashmir

The state has barely 200 Hanguls or Kashmiri Red Stags left, but it does not seem to be alarming enough for the government, whose conservation …

Costs threaten future of green army

Putting retired Indian army personnel to work on reforestation was a unique and effective idea. But the decade-old scheme has been soured by a …

Eco-links

India's first Human Development Report needs to look beyond numbers at ecology-poverty linkages