The battle of the Indian bulge -- I

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (April 1-5)

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

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (Feb 15-22)

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

Committee to speed up Namami Gange formed a day after NGT questions outcome

The National Green Tribunal, on February 6, said that not even a drop of Ganga was cleaned and public money was wasted under the programme

Polluted rivers pose risk to human health in three continents

Water pollution level has increased in Asia, Africa and Latin America, putting aquatic flora and fauna under extinction threat

Art of gobbling up Yamuna floodplain

Without proper mapping and a plan for its acceptable use, no one can prevent the Yamuna floodplain from being gobbled up

PUBLIC OUTCRY

For the past several months, Delhi has been witness to a half-hearted government being prodded by a determined Supreme Court to clean the Yamuna. …

As told to Parliament (March 18, 2021): India has 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Sewer river

The countdown to the cleaning up of the Yamuna has begun. The Supreme Court sets a deadline

Purity undermined

Choking slowly to death

The Damodar is the most polluted river in the country today, thanks to the several industries that have sprouted on its mineral-rich banks. …

African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution

Enforcement of water and environmental laws must be in place to protect the environment

Accidental toxic spill in Colorado river continues to spread

Authorities deny any threat to fish and other wildlife 

These 6 thermal power plants are polluting Indian rivers

The path popped pills tread

Only 15 per cent of drugs are degraded by sewage plants

Killing a river

Increased human activity is destroying a river system

Ganga speaks volumes on flawed govt plan, yet makes no poll ripples

Uttar Pradesh's rivers find no mention in election discourse despite clean-up projects being the keystone of the Centre

Day 3 of Indian Science Congress: technologies to curb Ganga river pollution revealed

The tanning industry is not only controlling pollutants, but it is also saving 20 per cent of the operational cost

Lucknow’s waterbodies perish at the hands of unregulated construction

Land records of Lucknow Nagar Nigam state the city has 964 tanks and ponds, a majority of which are unidentifiable due to reclamation

Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej

Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs

River restoration is not just an ecological act

Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …

Spent force?

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 11, 2023)

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

Dyeing cities

Textile mills of Pali district in Rajasthan and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu have an annual turnover of over Rs 20,000 crore. But the rivers passing …

Why is Jharkhand still running this sick and polluting power plant?

The Patratu plant in Ramgarh district, which currently generates only 10-15 per cent of its installed capacity, is poisoning the Damodar river …