Pollution crackdown

Unholy water?

J&K's Wullar lake rid of encroachments

Neela Hauz to breathe easy

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 …

Chilika sees record number of migratory birds amid bird flu scare

Rare falcated teal, mallard spotted during bird census

Winter tourists buoy up Kashmir’s battered tourism sector

Tourist operators say next three months crucial as the government tries to resurrect the sector

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 17, 2023)

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

Over 15,000 hectares under illegal prawn enclosures: Chilika Development Authority

Rampant unlawful prawn culture is destroying the ecology of the lake, say environmentalists

Migratory birds leave Chilika early as summer sets in

Eastern Odisha’s average maximum temperature for February has gone up by 3-4 degrees Celsius

The muck stops here

Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive …

Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

Africa: How climate change turned two of the world’s oldest tribes into enemies

Shrinking of the world's largest desert lake has triggered a survival battle among nomadic tribes in the Kenyan-Ethiopian border

Wetlands and lakes will now be protected under single new conservation programme

National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Eco-systems will include a national-level directive on criteria for lakes and wetlands

Mansagar's fate hangs in balance

Supreme Court to decide legality of leasing Jaipur lakefront for tourist facilities to generate funds for lake conservation

India

Polluted to the brim

A farmer & a melting glacier: Why German judges are on a trip to Peru

Judges, experts from Germany arrive in Huarez, Peru to assess risk

National Birds Day 2024: Over a million birds belonging to 184 species visit Odisha’s Chilika lake

Rare Pallas fish eagle spotted after a decade on Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon

Lake in peril

Lakeside woes

Vadodara's lakes imperilled by reckless government decisions

Polluted lake

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