Green and golden Srikakulam

Several efforts are being made to turn Andhra Pradesh’s remote, coastal district green and empower tribals in the process

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 9, 2022)

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

Grey pelicans die in droves in Srikakulam

Migratory grey pelicans ate fish infected with roundworms in Srikakulam, which caused their deaths, according to forensic reports

NEAA cancels Srikakulam power project

A day after two protesters die in police firing, appellate authority trashes environmental clearance to Nagarjuna construction

NEAA cancels Srikakulam power project

A day after two protesters die in police firing, appellate authority trashes environmental clearance to Nagarjuna construction

Cyclone Gulab: Landfall process starts

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik keeping close watch on situation; over 20,000 people evacuated from areas in Gulab’s path

People’s power v thermal power

Sompeta shows people’s resolve to protect wetlands

After SEZs, nuclear power parks

Power plants proposed on farmland will displace 50,000 people

Srikakulam plant on hold

Appellate authority cancels environment clearance

Hudhud death toll mounts to 35

Almost 250,000 people affected; more than 144,000 hectares of crop damaged

Hanging by a thread

Weavers of renowned Ponduru khadi are abandoning the craft

PM Modi to visit cyclone-affected Visakhapatnam on Tuesday

Andhra chief minister asks the Centre to declare cyclone ‘national calamity’

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 7, 2022)

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

Cyclone Hudhud makes landfall on Andhra coast; three killed

People are warned to stay indoors as trees, poles and hoardings risk being uprooted

Sompeta power project: CAG indicts Andhra government for allotting wetland to developer

State government violated Supreme Court directions and own orders

Clearance based on false claims

Panel confirms Sompeta and Bhavanapadu thermal project sites are wetlands

People boycott magisterial inquiry into Sompeta, Kakarapalli firing

Say have no faith in the inquiry

Tropical storm Hudhud forms in Bay of Bengal

Fresh cyclone warning issued for coastal areas of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh

Stay on land allotment for thermal power plant in Sompeta

Andhra Pradesh government had alloted 394 ha of wetlands terming it wasteland; farmers and fisherman were unhappy

Lessons from Kakarapalli

Nirma whitewash

Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …

The great wetland robbery in Kakarapalli

Police open fire, but people resolute to weed out power plant from wetland in Andhra Pradesh

Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …