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)