Rewind 2018: Is India’s head above water?
Here’s a lowdown on how India struggled to get its act together as its groundwater levels dipped and water bodies diminished
Games people play
Institutions that would help resolve conflicts and take credible decisions have been weakened
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 22, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
‘Cleaner fuel the way ahead’: NGT limits brick kiln operations in Delhi-NCR
The order, however, stated implementation concerns
Experts irked over revised structure of Central Empowered Committee
New notification gives unprecedented powers to central government
Curb colossal ecological destruction during Char Dham Yatra: NGT-appointed panel
The NGT will assess the report when it hears the matter January 25, 2023
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 30, 2022)
Ayodhya airport expansion and discharge of water from Coca-Cola factory put villagers in a fix
Villages drowning after rains due to airport expansion while polluted water destroying fields, allege locals
NGT scraps 2017 ministry note easing sewage treatment norms
The standards were diluted by the notification that permitted more pollutants than what was allowed under the 2015 CPCB draft
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 15-19)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 20, 2022)
Climate change in North East: Arunachal’s Seijosa shows connect between shifting patterns, declining biodiversity
Loss in forest cover, change in rainfall patterns, human interventions may together set in motion irreversible patterns
Meat Matters
Why slaughterhouses have to be "illegal" to be sustainable and why farmers have to give up their cattle for survival
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 17, 2020)
Is Rs 25 lakh compensation enough for Okhla waste-to-energy plant?
The facility has been allegedly emitting various pollutants for years including carcinogens such as furans and dioxins
IMA to supply clean drinking water to Delhi slum
Amid scrutiny over water wastage by RO filters, IMA plans to study quality of water in the national capital
Uttar Pradesh police opens fire on anti-Kanhar dam protestors
Tribal leader Akku Kharwar and eight others seriously injured in the firing in Sonbhadra district
Supreme Court asks NGT to monitor industrial units polluting Ganga
Apex court had recently asked government to explain why Central Pollution Control Board has no chairperson for the past six months
Carting away sand
Labourers illegally mine beach sand in Ratnagiri, removing the buffer between ocean and human habitat
Pollution may be higher in Kolkata this Diwali
Noise level standards were relaxed for firecrackers in West Bengal following recent orders of the National Green Tribunal
Baghjan blowout, fire could have been prevented: Report
There were deviations from standard operating procedure and deficiency in understanding gravity of operations, the report submitted to the NGT said
NGT probe into cruise operating in Bhopal Ramsar wetland
Pollution control authorities directed to monitor contamination by ship periodically
Green tribunal stays felling of mangroves in Gujarat
Complaint alleges large-scale destruction and diversion of mangroves to industry
An ordeal by water
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2020)