Lake Michigan gets dirtier

Andhra hospitals flout bio-medical rules

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

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

Sikkim at risk of devastating floods from glacial lake outbursts

State drags its feet over installing early warning systems

In Court

North America’s Great Lakes, Earth’s largest freshwater store, record ‘historically low’ ice levels

Above average temperatures, coupled with diminishing blasts of Arctic air have lessened ice in the region; El Nino also responsible for this …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 23, 2024)

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

Restoring Lake Victoria: CSE, Tanzanian authorities hold multi-nation stakeholder consultation

Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda attend meeting to discuss strategies to restore lake

Water every other day: Bengaluru is drying up & destruction of lakes is the reason

City is now dependent on Krishna Raja Sagara reservoir, which received only 75% of its usual inflow last due to poor rainfall in River Cauvery …

The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway

The proposal to add an Anthropocene Epoch to the geological time scale was rejected for a variety of reasons, none of them related to the fact …

Researchers find new crustacean in Odisha’s Chilika lagoon

Parhyale odian is brown in colour and around eight millimetres in length; it has 13 pairs of legs

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 28, 2024)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 26, 2024)

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

‘Climate change may increase risk of glacial lakes bursting, Sikkim-like disasters may spike’

Down to Earth spoke to Kalachand Sain, director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, to understand the causes of the Sikkim glacial …

Glacial lake outburst floods in Alaska and the Himalayas show evolving hazards in a warming world

Too much pressure from extreme rainfall or an avalanche or landslide into lakes can burst dams, triggering a devastating flood

Chungthang dam breach hits milk supply in Sikkim as Bihar halts deliveries amid road damage

Some co-operative federations started making milk powder given the supply chain disruptions

The devastating Sikkim floods teach us several lessons

Planning for economic development in hilly regions should take climate impact into account and dams should never be built in ecologically …

The drying up of the Jaisamand lake

If hydrocide -- the deliberate murder of a water body -- was a cognisable offence in India, the administrators of Udaipur city would be behind …

‘The Persian Gulf is a sensitive issue in Iran’

Amir Masoud Aghababaeian is an Iranian film-maker, originally from Isfahan and based in Tehran. He is the director of ‘Mermaid’, a …

Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job

Local bodies and activists in Bengaluru, Pune are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment 

CSE and NEMC release roadmap on how to clean Lake Victoria

Comes out with analysis on environmental problems of lake after joint meeting with stakeholders

Manipur govt orders floating homestays off Loktak; Locals demand rollback

Sharp reduction in fish production in lake forcing them to take up alternative means of livelihood