Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 20, 2020)

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

India was third-most polluted country globally in 2023, right behind top-ranking Bangladesh and Pakistan

Begusarai in Bihar most polluted city in world, New Delhi the most polluted capital; Africa continues to be most underrepresented continent

Delhi air remains 'severe plus'

Emergency persists despite drop in stubble burning 

Unsound ways

A red politician who saw opportunity in green

A chief minister who gave autonomy to environment regulators

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 16, 2020)

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

WATCH: The human and economic costs of air pollution

New report pegs economic cost of such pollution at $8 bln / day

Pollutant-gobblers

Sooty clues

Another bend in the Ganga

Plants as toxin purifiers

Cleaner air

The political economy of defecation

Auditioning pollution

It's curtains on sound and light

A clean burn

Gloomy state

Big money

Foreigners are eyeing India's market

Tested, not tried

Indigenous treatment technologies haven't taken off

Sewage flow

Indian companies want to jump in

Rivers are flowing off-course

Officials need to pull up their socks on conservation measures

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 13, 2019)

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

The plastic cycle

Will the world’s anti-plastic movement succeed? Or will it once again succumb to a new set of technology “fixits”

Ironing out pollution

A recently-developed cheap and environmentally-benign iron compound helps dispose of polluting nitrogen oxides

Growth that inhibits

Researchers from the US have recently declared that it may be possible to reduce the degree of mercury pollution in the soil by simply growing …