Monitoring Ganga on Net
Cleanup call
A Tughlakian folly
Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 13, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
North India Deluge 2023: Heavy rains in Nepal cause erosion downstream in Bihar; hundreds displaced
Soil erosion due to ascending water levels in the Koshi, Mahananda and Ganga has impacted hundreds in Bihar’s Supaul, Khagaria, Katihar, …
Angry river: How Jiadhal in Assam’s Dhemaji is changing livelihoods
The Jiadhal flooded, not once or twice, but several times in 2020. Flood plains were damaged, houses washed away. A solution, however, …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 15, 2023)
Critically polluted: Kolak fisherfolk in distress as chemicals from Vapi industries destroy river catch
Villagers fear CETP pipeline planned through River Kolak will kill more fish; to approach district administration
Muggers of Rapti: Anthropogenic threats pose risk to saurians in Nepal’s Chitwan National Park, says study
Park authorities should provide local communities with nature guide training, low interest bank loans for farming and job recruitment in the park …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 17, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2022)
China faces its longest, most severe drought ever recorded
Hydropower generation affected as rivers dry up; Country battles heatwave for over 64 days
Dhar dam leak averted for the time being, but questions remain
Questions are being asked about the construction of the dam being built at a cost of Rs 304 crore
How can you make a westward-flowing river flow east: Activists on Bedti-Varada interlinking
Bedti-Varada river interlinking is an unscientific project that will drain public money, say critics
Wastewater, seasons, tides: How Ganga water quality in Bengal changes every year
Pollution is less in the monsoon and post monsoon due to dilution of river water with rainwater; it is the opposite in pre-monsoon
World Photography Day: India’s year through DTE’s lens
From COVID-19 hollowing out lives and livelihoods to farmers agitating on Delhi borders undeterred to climate change leaving footprints all over, …
Work on India’s first dolphin research centre to start in Patna post-monsoon
The National Dolphin Research Centre would boost conservation efforts for river dolphins and would provide an opportunity for in-depth research …
World Environment Day: It is time to act
Our natural resources are enough to cater to the needs of the entire human population. But even a minor disturbance may lead to devastating impacts
Ganga cleanup delay may cost states Rs 10 lakh/month: NGT
Green bench order also said the National Mission for Clean Ganga would be held liable to pay 50% of the amount if directions not followed&…
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 1, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 19, 2019)
Kodagu landslides not a natural disaster
Here’s an account of the situation in disaster-hit Kodagu in Karnataka by a geologist who volunteered for the relief work
42 rivers have extremely high concentration of neurotoxic heavy metals
Ganga was found to be polluted with five heavy metals, namely chromium, copper, nickel, lead and iron
The plastic trail of the Ganga from mountain to sea
Despite campaigns for cleanliness, India has ignored the massive proliferation of plastics along rivers like the Ganga, in towns and villages, …
Kumbh leaves Godavari with 130 times more bacteria load
Scientists, who conducted a study at five locations across Godavari river, say open defecation by pilgrims and bad sewage management and waste …
