Easier to mine

A MEF proposal wants to do away with environmental clearance for small-scale mining

Prickly plans

Will those playing in MEF's new game be coopted?

Planting risk

Belgaum sponge iron plant disregards closure notices

What class do you need to travel business class?

Open amendment

A formality called EIA

Law made tough for noise makers

Will authorities enforce the rules?  

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (October 27-30, 2020)

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

Green tribunal spells its mandate

Forest bureaucracy contended that clearance by the Centre can’t be challenged

Sullied effort

A CAG report castigates the government for its poor implementation of the Ganga Action Plan

Afforestation push

Court allows widening of 17 km of road

NEAA incompetent: high court

POSCO to halt work on Orissa steel plant

South Korean company's steel project has violated rights of forest dwellers

Stiffer penalty for wildlife crimes

Villages protest forest acquisition

No compensation from steel major Jindal, allege Odisha people

HP snubbed

For denotifying forestland

Complete muff-up

MoEF falls far short of tenth Five Year Plan targets

Line of Vulnerability

Tsunami experience redefines coastal zones

Blocking the sea

Adanis may have to leave Tadoba

In court

In Court

Srikakulam plant on hold

Appellate authority cancels environment clearance

Forest ministry favours intrusion

The biggest threat protected areas across the country face right now is from their purported protector -- the Union ministry of environment and …