Ban on grazing hits Raikas community hard

Field science

Curse of excess

Once a parched city, Jodhpur is today facing a deluge

Budgeting power

Four Rajasthan villages get microgrid solar power using an innovative pre-paid meter that detects theft

Real India needs real answers

No let-off till zero discharge

Flood fury in Rajasthan again

Pali industrial units discharge untreated effluent into river

Authorities shut down industries, but they continue to operate clandestinely

'Open forests for livestock grazing'

Otaram Dewasi, Rajasthan's Minister of Dairy, Devasthan and Gaupalan department and India’s first cow minister, tells Down To Earth how the …

No check on effluents

Court asks to close polluting industries in Pali

Rajasthan fails to comply with NGT order to close textile units of Pali

The polluting industries did not have 'consent to operate' from the Rajasthan Pollution Control Board

Leopards of Jawai: a failing success story?

A thriving tourism industry has come up in Jawai thanks to frequent leopard sightings  

Reluctant to upgrade

Textile dyeing units would rather extract groundwater than treat and recycle wastewater due to the costs involved and a lack of adequate policy …

‘Pay Rajasthan farmers for losses due to soil pollution’

Committee set up by NGT finds ‘green tinge’ in effluents discharged into river Bandi; notes distress to farmers

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (March 25-29)

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

‘Water trains’ hold key to survival of 350 mugger crocodiles in Rajasthan’s Pali

Water levels in the Jawai dam are down to three feet in which the animals will not be able to survive