Dahisar in danger

River restoration project goes into overdrive

Baijal board

A new committee on Yamuna will review its own work

Tender notice for common sense

Government still chasing toilets, but that won’t solve sanitation issues: experts

The government is still correlating the number of toilets built with open defecation-free status of villages

Turtle smuggling continues: Forest officials seize 40 turtles from Odisha’s Malkangiri

Forest officials had seized 150 live freshwater turtles from a village in Malkangiri district June 4

Dying Sabarmati: Polluting units to be named, shamed and prosecuted, says Gujarat HC

Stopping pollution is everybody’s collective responsibility, says Gujarat High Court

Give rivers their rights, activists tell IUCN World Conservation Congress

Only 37% of rivers longer than 1,000 km still flow freely due to dams being built on them

Healthy rivers: How DNA tool can help keep tabs on freshwater quality

DNA technologies have revolutionised the amount of data generated from a single river sample  

Patna’s severe air quality due to Ganga’s shifting course: Govt study

Ganga has shifted four kilometres away from the city, leaving an exposed bed of sand, which Himalayan winds are blowing into Patna, it says

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 1, 2019)

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

Can a centralised approach help solve water disputes?

A single national tribunal for inter-state water disputes will also enable discussion on the issue of international waters

Study throws new light on evolution of northern Indian Ocean

Scientists say a short-lived subduction event occurred around 70 million years ago in Laxmi Basin located on the western margin of the Indian …

Indian government should not use water crisis to justify river linking

Modi’s government should focus on local solutions and stronger governance rather than build large dams and river diversions, argues Ashok Swain

Namami Gange nudges ahead as government launches new initiatives

The Ganga Eco-Task Force and village-level initiatives to manage sewage see light of day

A river hard done by

Documentary>> Making the sewer...A river again: Why Mumbai must reclaim its Mithi • Observer Research Foundation

Conflict over ganga

Over 2,500-odd kilometers this river meanders, flowing through the lives of over 500 million people, enabling a vast basin spread over Nepal, …

Teesta deal likely

India and Bangladesh to sign an interim treaty for 15 years

A civilisational loss

For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first …

Telengana's water grouse

Regional disparity in allocation of Krishna water in Andhra Pradesh is both because of politics and topography, finds Bharat Lal Seth

How the Grand Renaissance Dam might spark basin-wide water cooperation

There is no doubt that the dam has become a source of serious tension among Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan

In court

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 17, 2024)

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

Brazzaville Summit of the Three Basins needs to find ways to protect world’s tropical forests

Tropical forests face threat from fossil fuel, mining and extractive industry expansion  

Microplastics detected in fish samples from Cauvery

The presence of microplastics causes growth defects, skeletal deformities

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