A moving target

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 22, 2024)

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

Plant treaty: Ways to benefit custodians of agricultural biodiversity in focus

Treaty calls on nations to protect, promote their rights to save and use traditional seeds

‘Freak incident’: ONGC, ISOR downplay geothermal fluid discharge into Ladakh’s Puga nullah

Both agencies also said the water discharged from the borehole after a blowout August 16 was benign

Eating ‘exotic foods’? You’re helping in emission of 3 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases yearly

The world could reduce emissions by 0.38 gigatonnes by replacing imports and exports with locally grown food, according to a new study

India emits the most sulphur dioxide in the world

Five of the top 10 SO2 emission hotspots from coal/power generation industry across the world are in India, finds a Greenpeace study

All about the first-ever global assessment on biodiversity

Down To Earth followed the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ from when it was a draft to …

Burden of relief: The cost of letting captive plants off green power grid

The Union government’s decision to exempt captive power plants from meeting renewable energy targets will upset India’s climate …

CSE welcomes much-awaited Delhi government notification on approved fuel list

Notification mandates use of only cleaner fuels and bars all toxic and polluting fuels from being used in the city

After a 23-year-long battle, Tamil Nadu's Sterlite plant finally shuts down, permanently

On Monday evening, the state government passed a government order to shut down Vedanta group's Serlite copper smelting plant permanently

Anti-Sterlite stir: Tension continues as kin of those killed don’t get dead bodies

Activists say the government plans to cremate the protestors who died in police firing on its own

Anti-Sterlite stir: Parts of Tuticorin return to normal, but activists say it’s far from over

Despite a court order, ban on internet has not been lifted and activists claim police are harassing people

Scientists develop bio-fortified maize to address ‘hidden hunger’

The new hybrids have 4.5 folds more vitamin A content and similar amounts of lysine and tryptophan as earlier varieties

Zimbabwe baobab trees dying due to mysterious disease

This could cause a potential food crisis in the country which is in the throes of drought

Plant-based diet linked to lower type-2 diabetes risk

The study is the first to make a distinction between healthy plant-based diets and less healthy ones that include things like sweetened foods and …

Ensuring human survival

"The future of human civilisation could depend on our ability to defend and make sustainable use of biological diversity," he adds. FAO recently …

The fly that got away

The American serpentine leaf miner that infiltrated into India about two years ago is destroying agricultural crops

Vanishing breeds

While debating the ways to attain global food security, national governments ignore the most pertinent issue: rapidly disappearing agro-biodiversity

Fear no starch

By the turn of the century, you can dig your teeth into anything starchy and yet maintain good dental health -courtesy, genetically engineered plants

Shoot to protect

With the creation of a new variety of rice plant which is resistant to bacterial leaf blight, genetic engineering has once again made one of …

Kudankulam Away from Reactor storage: Locals want MPs, MLAs at public hearing

DMK has agreed to send elected representatives

Tribals voice protest against power project in West Bengal’s Ayodhya Hills

Villagers claim that the power project will destroy their forests and elephant habitats

Worms in US apples

CHINA

GMs renegade genes

Ecological costs of a GM plant are higher than benefits