Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 7, 2020)

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

India’s forest cover declines

North-eastern states and tribal districts witness unprecedented forest loss

Provide farmers with means to salvage wet grains, M S Swaminathan tells states

Agriculture scientist also suggests maintaining seed reserves for growing alternate short-duration crops

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

Uranium in food, water in Bathinda

Greenest of all

Model building design that helps save energy and money by exploiting the sun’s movement

Why Punjab stands to lose from farmers’ produce trade and commerce ordinance

Instead of putting Punjab farmers at the mercy of big corporates and private players, there is a need to strengthen existing infrastructure 

Punjab farmers try religious route to shun pesticides

Ask religious institutions to grow organic crops and accept organic crops as donation for langars

Onion export ban lifted

Minimum export price fixed at US $475 a tonne. Will it profit farmers?

Drought spreads its tentacles

UP government caught napping as state comes under dry spell

New biomass model may help monitor crop damage, health

Zero-budget natural farming brought big gains for Andhra farmers, shows study

Paddy farmers save water, energy and money by adopting this farming approach, the study points out

Paddy fields burning: Smog shrouds national capital

The smoke resulting from burning crop residues combined with vehicular emissions make the air we breathe deadly

Why Horlicks ad claim on boiled milk is hard to digest

Claim by GlaxoSmithKline that makes the milk supplement harps only on one aspect of study, which incidentally is funded by another multinational&…

Not a waste until wasted

Punjab farmers burn straw after harvest. It is time to exploit the potential of this agro-waste

Bt Cotton imbroglio

A failure of our scientific preparedness. Where are our scientists?

Punjab chief justice against pesticides

Punjab's spiritual farming

How effective are environmental PILs

Judiciary's pro-development tilt is making activists seek recourse at the societal level

SC: Farmers, not banks, have first right over proceeds from sugar sales

Apex court confirms Allahabad High Court order, citing concerns over farmer suicides due to non-recovery of dues

Punjab, cancer capital of India

Government survey shows cancer cases in the state exceed national average

पराली के लिए किसानों को कोसना कितना सही?

धान की पुआल को हम वाहनों का ईंधन में बदल सकते हैं। पुराने पावर प्लांट में कोयले के बदले पुआल का इस्तेमाल हो सकता ...

Increased stubble fires, calm conditions cause Delhi’s air to become ‘very poor’

The condition will last till October 17, according to the SAFAR website under the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences  

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी: महाराष्ट्र में बिना पर्यावरणीय मंजूरी के बन रहे हैं घर

देश की विभिन्न अदालतों में पर्यावरण से संबंधित मामलों की सुनवाई के दौरान क्या कुछ हुआ, यहां पढ़ें-

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 11, 2020)

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