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
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)
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
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 …
Trail of a $500 m gene
How a rare African algae collected by a French academic turns into a commercial bonanza for an equity firm in Hong Kong. Are there any benefits …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2020)