Contamination

Turtles in trouble

Faulty lake development design is pushing rare Bostami turtle of Tripura to extinction in its only known refuge—the Kalyan Sagar lake

Stinking for two decades

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

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 29-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 through the week

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms

Choked on salt

Illegal salt making threatens Sambhar Lake’s ecology

Interoceanic Nicaragua canal sparks protests

Extensive dredging will threaten tropical rainforests and wildlife habitats in the region

Rising sea levels prompt South Florida to demand statehood

The rising levels threaten to submerge living spaces, national parks and a nuclear reactor site

Uttarakhand disaster was result of extreme rains and haphazard development: report

National Institute of Disaster Management suggests guidelines and action plans for development activities after compilation of comprehensive data

Pollutants flood Lake Victoria

Roses for Valentine's day in the UK threaten Kenya's lake Naivasha

Algae bloom worsens drought

Lake Michigan gets dirtier

Draft CAG report slams Andhra pollution control board for negligence

The report blames the board’s inaction for unchecked pollution of water bodies and deteriorating air quality

Andhra hospitals flout bio-medical rules

119 hospitals issued show cause notice by state pollution control board for violations

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 25-29, 2020)

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

28 years of Earth’s surface changes on Google

Watch a city expand or a glacier shrink through a series of satellite images; see the altering landscape at four spots in India  

What really happened in Uttarakhand

Latest theory suggests combination of rain and landslides caused the disaster

Himalayan states also face risk of glacial lake outburst floods

The region is surrounded by 8000 glacial lakes, 200 of them potentially dangerous

Alga bloom: China sacks officials

Letters

Unplanned urbanisation, encroachment blamed for Srinagar flood

Illegal structures had mushroomed on Jhelum’s banks and around lakes, clogging drainage channels

Sikkim at risk of devastating floods from glacial lake outbursts

State drags its feet over installing early warning systems

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 1, 2020)

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

`I did not have a government for 36 hours'

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pleaded helplessness as the seat of his government went under water and his ministers and …