Water for profit

Whose germplasm is it?

NBA struggles to frame case against Mahyco in first biopiracy case

Rubber-stamp Authority

State environment regulatory bodies formed under the 2006 Environmental Impact Assessment notification have floundered. They have little …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2020)

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

Saseendran’s ‘tiger cull’: Kerala forest minister made a gaffe; but state’s human-wildlife conflict needs redressal

Removing invasive plants, restoring vanishing wildlife corridors and eco-restoration inside forests should be the solution to human-wildlife …

Village to move court against Bengaluru civic body for illegal garbage dumping

Police enforce Section 144 to prevent protests

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Lessons in dealing with floods

Green politics for green technologies

Going off course

As the Cauvery river dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu gets reduced to a politico-legal wrangle, focal issues remain unaddressed

Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

Wages of fear: How did COVID-19 geographic shift affect MGNREGA implementation?

The understanding should be part of India’s contingency plan to support rural livelihoods in the event of a third wave of the pandemic

Forestry, the Mexican way

Karnataka lost Rs 3,000 crore due to illegal mining: CAG

Performance audit report unveils mining irregularities in the state

Opinion divided on Bangalore metro rail project

Governance failure

How agencies meant to regulate mining conspired in the loot

Getting a city into shape

Time a resource curse got lifted

The right blend

Ethanol, a safer alternative to MTBE, will now be mixed with petrol to curb emissions. Lopamudra Banerjee analyses the impact of this environment-…

Monsoon 2020: Rains advance over Peninsular India from June 1-7

India received 70% more rains during this week than it usually does at this time  

Shifting ground

After cracking the whip on mining offenders, CEC is now going easy on them

Ailing systems

Hospital waste management suffers from poor understanding and even poorer implementation

Many takers of a park

Jumbo conflict

Human-elephant conflict is rising across India. Every year nearly 400 people are killed by elephants and about 100 elephants lose their lives. …

Will Kolar become India's nuclear waste dumpyard?

Government offices, business houses, educational institutions and cinema halls remain shut in protest against the Centre’s move