Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 24-28, 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

Rajasthan to have world’s largest solar power project

Sambhar Ultra-Mega Green Solar Power Project will have more than double the total installed power capacity of India

Chance of revival for Bengaluru’s dying lakes

Karnataka pollution control board initiates project to divert sewage that fall into city lakes

Homicide by nuclides

A top secret Soviet nuclear complex contaminated its environs for 40 years, exposing thousands of people in the vicinity to radiation

Court orders water supply scheme for Khurpatal

Growing construction in the hill station is drying up springs downhill

In short

Uttar Pradesh to revive dry rivulets under MGNREGS

Revival of small river in Fatehpur district shows the way

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

How to contain Himalayan tsunamis

The Himalaya has one of the most fragile topographies among mountain ranges of the world on account of being the youngest. Even though its phase …

Children make up for 80 per cent of deaths attributed to climate change

But they are the most ignored in the climate change discourse

Solar threat to Sambhar

A mega solar power plant at Sambhar lake may spell doom for its fragile ecology and flamingoes

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Natural disasters: why are we always so unprepared?

Government agencies merely shift blame but take no action to plan and prepare ahead

News 360°

920 million people could face conflict over the world’s rivers by 2050: What our study found in Africa

There’s a real risk that conflicts over sharing water resources will become more common as global temperatures rise

Mismanaged solid waste in Tanzania’s Mwanza city is polluting Lake Victoria

Critical for Mwanza to invest in source separation of waste, developing infrastructure for ensuring 100% collection coverage and efficient …

The vanishing lakes

There is more water than land in north Bihar. The rivers that ramble down from the Himalaya feed numerous depressions scattered all over the …

Rs 10 crore for conserving Lonar lake

Larvae found in sewage discovered in the water body formed by meteoric crater

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

Eco-cabs join Chandigarh's public transport service

Plans afoot to increase demand for cycle rickshaws, reduce use of motor vehicles

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