Agreement likely between Brazil and mining company over dam collapse

A tailings dam had collapsed in November 2015 that killed 16 people and polluted nearby areas

Clean Ganga programme gets Rs 20,000-crore budget for five years

Initiatives to clean the river will include rehabilitation of existing sewage treatment plants

Show cause notices to 11 Nashik factories for polluting Godavari

The plastic and food processing factories don’t have proper effluent treatment system

Dye-maker accused of dumping acidic effluents

Cowherds in a Gujarat district accuse a local dye manufacturer of dumping a poisonous and acidic substance, which resulted in the maiming and …

Birlas fend off bid to close UP sugar mill

Hampered by a Supreme Court order, UP pollution control authorities are finding it difficult to close a Birla sugar unit emitting acidic …

Killer hospitals

The great sham

Under pressure from the Supreme Court, the Delhi government resorts to a five-day charade to clean up the Yamuna

When will India be able to control pollution ?

Not till the middle of the 21st century. So be prepared to leave your children behind in a living hell. Unless you are prepared to browbeat …

नदी की बेसहारा संतानें

नदी पर आश्रित मछुआरे अपने पुश्तैनी पेशे को छोड़कर मजदूर बनने को विवश हो रहे हैं। सरकारी नीतियों में उनके लिए कोई जगह नहीं ...

जलमार्गों पर पर्यावरण नियमों में संशोधन पड़ सकते हैं भारी

दो माह के दौरान फ्लाई ऐश से भरे पांच जहाज पश्चिम बंगाल की नदियों में डूबने के बाद सख्त पर्यावरण नियमों की जरूरत महसूस ...

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 29, 2019)

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

A swami and sand mafia

Uttarakhand banned mining along Ganga over and again. Will it obey court order this time?

Court curbs Ganga polluters in Bihar, Bengal

Sugar and paper mills in Bihar and tanneries in West Bengal have been penalised by the Supreme Court for continuing to discharge untreated waste …

Unquiet flows the Chaliyar

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Nuclear contamination

GUIENA

A ritual offer of nothing

On June 16, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's exhortation to "implement the river conservation programme with a greater sense of urgency and …

Water supply is all

What about the sewage that makes Kovalam beach stink?

Clogged up in Delhi

More than two years ago, the Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation (moud) issued a notification making wastewater recycling …

Sooty water for parched throats

Pollution by public sector units has created a dearth water in Orissa's Anugul-Talcher industrial belt. However, little has been done to rectify …

Doomed! Carry on flushing

two years ago the Supreme Court fixed 31 March 2003 as the deadline for cleaning the Yamuna. It's April 2003 now and unbelievably, the river that …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 23, 2020)

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

पर्यावरण मुकदमों की डायरी : दवा कंपनियां सिरसा और सतलुज नदी को कर रही हैं प्रदूषित, एनजीटी ने तीन महीने में मांगी रिपोर्ट

पर्यावरण संबंधी मामलों में अदालतों में क्या हुआ, बता रहा है डाउन टू अर्थ

Ganga and the death of its crusader

Read Down To Earth’s upcoming issue for a detailed analysis of the current state of the Ganga