Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 8, 2022)

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

Reliance mobile towers in Gir: Lion experts say any artificial object an intrusion into natural spaces

How much more will we intrude into nature, experts ask, even as the Gujarat wildlife board has already given permission to Reliance to install …

As told to Parliament (December 15, 2021): Mobile network connectivity in over 95% villages

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Is the house sparrow out of the woods?

The house sparrow declined in urban India in the last two decades; however, conservation efforts might have just stopped its journey to extinction

World Sparrow Day: With wooden nests, this man won a war against extinction

Rabindra Mohan Sahoo's efforts helped increase the bird’s population from 11 to now hundreds in a decade in an Odisha village

Don’t take any ad hoc decision on cell phone towers, IIT profs request Centre

They say radiation from these towers too low to be harmful; health activists accuse them of conflict of interest

Mobile tower risks: Rajasthan High Court issues notice to telecom operators

Petition filed by two senior citizens dwells on harmful and hazardous radiation from towers