Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 15, 2024)

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

Khobarvel tea

Hobson's choice

The Uttar Pradesh government's proposal to shift the Lucknow zoo stirs a hornet's nest

Grounded!

A new rule in Lucknow keeps vehicles off the roads unless certified as pollution-free

Fossil find

Scientists find the oldest life form in Indian geological history

Autumn for neem

Insects that cause defoliation put neem trees at risk

Tiger alert

Pluck and dry

Herbarium trip shows climate change not the only threat

Herbal cure for stones

INDIA

Power to pollute

More power will mean more pollution, say participants at a recently-held seminar in Lucknow

Sunday warriors

Residents of Lucknow have taken up the task of cleaning the river Gomti

Paying the price

Uttar Pradesh forest officials slap a hefty fine on poachers

This is a good bioenhancer

Drumstick molecule increases absorption of drugs

Grow your vegetables

Amol Kalan Paschim, a nutrition-secure village

Using urea

40 km for Rs 5

Indian scientists design a bike engine that runs on air

Drug booster

Anti-fungal medicine can make malaria drugs deadlier

FARMERS PLIGHT

Pulled up for LAXITY

Lab's labour lost

Products designed by premier scientific institutions fail to find the pulse of the market

DTE exclusive: 2020 order on floodplain zoning declaring Gomti ‘non-perennial river’ draws flak

Floodplain zone halved to 50 metres, contradicting an Allahabad HC order

Wildlife mismanaged

The biggest threat to wildlife comes from foresters themselves

Toxic spread

Arsenic contamination detected in Lucknow

All cracked up