UP’s SEIAA not working to its full potential, report by NGT-appointed joint committee says
There is a lack of clarity in SEIAA regarding methodology to be followed for building projects and imposition of environmental compensation for …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 20, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Pastoralist Van Gujjars ask why they still need permit to enter their own land
Voices of the Van Gujjars have been silenced by restrictions in the form of ‘permits’
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 13, 2023)
Leave control, even effective pollution monitoring not happening at Delhi-NCR’s power plants: CSE
Make continuous emission monitoring system data public for air quality betterment CSE study emphasises
Delhi smog conditions improve; air quality in UP, Haryana still grim
There is nothing to be happy about the improvement in Delhi’s air quality since pollutant levels have not gone down yet, according to experts
Burdened beast: India’s donkeys are disappearing; here is why
A fall in demand as a beast of burden, and illegal meat and skin trade have caused a critical decline in donkey numbers
Departure in rainfall across flood-affected districts this June very sharp: DTE analysis
A detailed study of data across districts and subdivisions reveals that such excess rainfall in June has rarely occurred otherwise
Adityanath government’s claims of oxygen sufficiency fly in the face of ground reality, finds DTE
The Centre has not increased its allotment of oxygen to UP; the state too has not been able to meet the daily demand due to logistics
‘We will only wake up when sal trees have been driven to the brink of extinction’
The ‘treeman of Delhi’, Pradip Krishen talks to Down To Earth about the recent decision to cut 2,500 British-era sal trees on the …
Stubble burning season starts in Punjab and Haryana
Nasa’s satellite image showed at least 100 such incidents in Punjab in the last 72 hours
Building toilets won’t make India open defecation free: World Bank study
The research analysed attitudes of people in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, all of whom had toilets in their houses. Almost half were unwilling …
'Television had promised rain'
RAMESH YADAV, migrant auto driver, converses with NITIN SETHI on drought, media, politics and migration
Uttar Pradesh plans its 4th tiger reserve in Bundelkhand
Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary in Chitrakoot district has no tigers of its own; but pugmarks are frequently seen as tigers from nearby Panna frequent it
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 10, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 10, 2023)
World Migratory Birds Day: Save the gulls of the Sangam
Siberian gulls, who migrate to the Triveni Sangam in winter, die because of eating plastic; their habits also change when tourists feed them
COVID-19: Rural UP girls wait for schools to reopen to get sanitary napkins
With schools that distributed sanitary napkins shut, girls have gone back to using cloth
Delhi on the verge of another 'severe' air quality episode
Calm surface winds and a decrease in the ability of the atmosphere to disperse pollutants have made conditions conducive for such an episode
Festivities, election rallies: What happened in the weeks leading up to India's 2nd COVID-19 wave
An account of last year's superspreader events illustrates how we may be in a similar sitation now
Iconic city or concrete jungle?
A “clean-green” city project spread over 400 hectares in Unaao will prove disastrous for the choked Ganga
Romancing the trees
After trees of Delhi, filmmaker and tree lover Pradip Krishen finds his muse in Central Indian forests
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2023)
UP Assembly polls 2022: Why state’s ‘jobless growth’ decade will be a headache for new government
Trends over the decade indicate that the pace of economic growth is slow and not sufficient if UP wants to achieve the goal of becoming a trillion-…
COVID-19: Lack of shots, digital literacy hindering vaccination in rural UP
The state government has stopped walk-in vaccination, thus making it difficult for 60 million people who are digitally illiterate