Making a killing

Poor quality pesticide trade thrives in J&K

High court verdict in Kashmir shahtoosh workers' favour

Yatra route to politics

Ladakh’s arid winter: Cold desert will face short- & long-term repercussions, warn experts

Apricots have blossomed & insects seen in peak winter; the Zojila is motorable even as the Chader Trek has started later this year

Political tension doesn’t leave any spotlight for green issues in J&K

Issues like shrinking of glaciers and rivers and water shortage are neither being addressed in election campaign, nor are they mentioned in …

Silenced Springs

Glaciers retreat. Forests become denuded. Buildings come up where green meadows used to be. And across the Kashmir valley, the natural mountain …

Wet winter, harsh summer, weird monsoon: What La Nina has in store for India in 2022

La Nina will be a major component of IMD's upcoming forecasts

Victim of strife

Piloting extinction

Left high and dry

Drought-like spell in J&K spells doom for saffron farmers

Home run

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

Banned

Collecting medicinal plants in Jammu and Kashmir's forests

Cedar crisis

Numbers declining fast; afforestation insufficient

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

Monsoon begins to withdraw from India

The south-west monsoon has already withdrawn from some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and most of Rajasthan

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 …

Faith's filth

Waste of pilgrims threatens Pahalgam's ecology

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Justice at last

J&K government shuts down polluting stone-crushing units

Shooting up

Cancer in violence-torn J&K

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 18, 2023)

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