Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 25, 2024)

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

Voting without voters: Uttar Pradesh migrant workers to be home for paddy transplantation next, may skip Lok Sabha polls

Migrant workers came back home for Holi, won't be able to come back for the  crucial electoral process

Simply Put: Cattle class in UP

Fight for land

From stricter land laws to revising domicile rules, Uttarakhand residents demand government action to stop the sale of agricultural land to …

What will be the climate impact on Indo-Gangetic plain

Climate change projections and impacts in a region with 432.5 million population

Missing links

Last call

Will the song of the sarus be heard when the wetlands of Uttar Pradesh are drained?

In denial

Mystery fever kills hundreds; government clueless

Bitter sugar

Sugarcane farmers are the losers as Uttar Pradesh government, mill owners strike a deal

Cool medicine

The age-old thandai keeps energy levels high and fever and acidity at bay

Disappearing forests

Awry

India plans to root out leprosy by 2005: can it?

Barrage of sewage

Kanpur will have a Rs 412.44 crore Ganga drain by 2031

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 15, 2024)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 3, 2023)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 6, 2022)

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

Why we may have missed the bus on ensuring paddy co-firing in Delhi-NCR coal plants this year

Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh need to identify the major aggregators in their respective states and ensure allocation of suitable land and …

Climate change has transformed pearl millet cultivation zones in India

East Rajasthan, Haryana now India’s core pearl millet production area; farmers in Gujarat shifting from pearl millet to cotton, castor  

CAG flags series of overruns in UP’s major irrigation projects

Outcomes unachieved despite UP government spending over 4,101 crore on major irrigation projects

India’s kala-azar cases declined 98.7% since 2007: Health ministry

Around 99.8% endemic blocks in India have achieved elimination status, says Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 14, 2022)

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

Large share of India’s threatened endemic species in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka: Study

Tackling threats from agro industry, small-holder farming, grazing plantations most effective in reducing extinction risk  

Fabulous Faba: Ancient super food set to stage a comeback

Food scientists are now trying to give this neglected ancient crop a makeover, given its high nutrition content

DMF best practices: These two mining districts ensured drinking water through DMF funds

In Jharkhand’s Ramgarh and UP’s Sonbhadra, drinking water supply has either started  or is about to start

Encroachment, concretisation, pollution killing Mandakini river near Chitrakoot

Political leaders abetting the Mandakini’s death by building hotels along its banks in Chitrakoot