New rules for coasts
Environment ministry notifies CRZ 2011. It has pro-builder bias, say fishers and activists
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 22, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Time to get out of denial mode
Government will have to internalise the fact that climate change is going to affect us more and more in the future
Faceless Figures
The status of cancer data in India is as scary as the killer itself. The most recent data on cancer by the Indian Council of Medical Research is …
Stop the cycle of poison
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 30, 2022)
Brick kilns destroying fertile top soil
65 per cent of bricks produced in India are manufactured in the Gangetic plains, which have one of the world’s most fertile alluvial soils
Letters
Court allows land transfer to Navi Mumbai airport
CIDCO claims contested land was in its possession for several years
Farmers in Raigad protest against land acquisition for Delhi-Mumbai corridor
Farmers say state is proceeding with land acquisition even though Centre had asked state to drop Dighi port project under DMIC
High court halts seizure of Ganesha idols by Nagpur civic agency
Municipal corporation rapped for delaying ban on plaster of Paris idols that pollute the city's water bodies
Caffeine hits energy drinks
Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link on hold
National Green Tribunal orders not to begin construction on the basis of seven-year-old environment clearance
Maharashtra now seeks wildlife clearance for Navi Mumbai airport
State had earlier ignored the presence of a bird sanctuary near airport
High Court allows sale of PoP Ganesh idols in Nagpur
They are to be immersed only in artificial tanks
Centre for incinerating toxic Bhopal waste in Navi Mumbai
It was earlier to be burnt at a DRDO facility in Nagpur
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
Dharavi's real estate threat
The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai's sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not …
COVID-19: Serosurvey estimated every fifth person in Chennai infected
Highest infection estimated to be in children, lowest in people more than 60 years
In court
`I did not have a government for 36 hours'
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah pleaded helplessness as the seat of his government went under water and his ministers and …
Cyclone Nisarga may hit Mumbai on June 3, says weather department
Nisarga will be the first cyclone to hit the Maharashtra coast in June since 1891, according to the weather department
Avian fauna study for Navi Mumbai airport will not solve problem of bird hits, says activist
Reports submitted so far silent on presence of bird sanctuary in eco-sensitive zone around airport
Global warming, Cyclone Biparjoy worked in tandem to bring monsoon to Mumbai and Delhi on same date
Incident last happened 62 years ago in 1961, confirmed IMD