Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 7, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
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Conference on ‘slow food’ kicks off in Meghalaya
Speakers insist on the importance of reflecting on evolving food and agro ecological issues of indigenous people
Fissile filch
The recent recovery of stolen uranium points to the need for better security arrangements at nuclear installations
"Forests are the main source of herbs"
Meghalaya's abundant flora is the basis of its traditional healthcare system. Now, rapid urbanisation and breakdown of the community structure …
Payment for Ecosystem Services: Himalayan states should demand more
Their demand for “green bonus” triggers the payment for ecosystems debate
Local citrus goes global
After the People met
The Union ministry of home affairs wants to know: what is the Meghalaya government going to do about the 'People's Budget'?
Greens of Meghalaya
Cure for yellow stream
Green algae can revitalise streams poisoned with mine acids
IMD flood alert for North East
States in the region, that received heavy rains due to Cyclone Amphan, are to get more rainfall in next 2 days
An Act to commodify water
Meghalaya's draft water Act water omits conservation and management from the sustainability point of view
Erratic pre-monsoon, monsoon rainfall impacts North East agriculture
Kharif cultivation of paddy delayed in Assam, Tripura, Nagaland; Boro harvest was affected too
Cyclone Hamoon: Deep depression in Bay of Bengal may intensify into cyclonic storm on October 23, says IMD
Isolated heavy rainfall over Mizoram and heavy to very rainfall over Tripura expected on October 23 and 24
Expect Assam floods to worsen in the next few days
Possibility of fresh floods in Meghalaya, Arunachal, Sikkim, north Bengal too
Garo hills spared of uranium exploration
Atomic energy department wanted to drill inside national park
Climate crisis in North East India: How geography, rainfall variations define calamity course
DTE analyses geography of 8 northeastern states and shows what changing climate and rainfall patterns mean for the region
Flood, again
Meghalaya government and environment activists blame deforestation in Garo Hills for recent flood even as official data counters their claims
NGT ban on rat-hole mining in Meghalaya to continue
National Green Tribunal refuses to lift ban, but allows transportation of coal already extracted
Scrutinising disasters
FLOOD STUDIES IN INDIA Kale, Vishwas S . Geological Society of India (Memoir; 41) . Bangalore . 1998 . 256 pp
A profane proposal
10 years ago, Down To Earth reported on the state of sacred groves in India (see: Down To Earth, January 31, 1994). Patches of forest protected …
Indigenous people in India and the web of indifference
On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we bring together the stories of exclusion, oppression, and at times, recognition
Indigenous communities from different parts of the world are related
Why waste management in Northeast India needs an urgent overhaul
Specialised policies needed for mountainous regions;standardised national-level policies lack nuance for regional challenges
Swine flu spreads to Northeast; four deaths reported
Assam Human Rights Commission seeks report on steps taken to tackle, control and contain the outbreak of swine flu