Pindar’s last gush

Dam proposed on the last unrestricted tributary of Alaknanda stirs valley residents

Can rural Uttarakhand retain its COVID-19 returnees

Deserted villages are springing back to life as residents return due to lockdown. The state government has announced several schemes to retain …

Hydropower projects continue to flout green norms

Managers of Alaknanda, Vishnuprayag and Dhauliganga hydroelectric projects dump construction debris and silt in riverbed and hill slopes

Delivering safety

All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest …

Dangerous deal

To promote development in hilly states, a committee recommends dilution of forest clearance rules, reward for setting up projects

Under threat

A proposed dam is set to change the landscape in the Pindar ghati--host to the last free flowing tributary of the Alaknanda. Bharat Lal Seth …

How to contain Himalayan tsunamis

The Himalaya has one of the most fragile topographies among mountain ranges of the world on account of being the youngest. Even though its phase …

Call of the phantom

Government fails to effectively execute Project Snow Leopard

Ganga's moment

NTPC dam rattles local elections

Officials subverted elections to the forest council that opposed dam, allege villagers

22 million people displaced by natural disasters globally last year

Floods, storms and quakes displaced 19 million people in Asia alone

Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand survives glacier, floods

Lichen studies show Chorabari glacier submerged temple, then retreated

Natural disasters: why are we always so unprepared?

Government agencies merely shift blame but take no action to plan and prepare ahead

Indian scientists criticise World Bank report on climate change in Himalayas

Report lacks region specific-information; methodology used is questionable, say experts in India

Uttarakhand government ignored Met warning

State does not have automatic weather stations on pilgrimage routes or nowcasting system despite its vulnerability to rains and flash floods

Uttarakhand residents get little succour

They have lost homes, belongings; claim no government aid available as yet

Big response to solar power plan

Uttarakhand gets applications for 65 per cent of its target in 15 days of launching scheme

G D Agarwal on indefinite hunger strike again

'Despite repeated assurances of government, 18 proposed hydel projects on the Ganga and its tributaries have not been scrapped'

MoEF changes stand on relocation of Dhari Devi temple for Alaknanda dam

Supreme Court rebuffs ministry for opposing relocation of the temple at a higher level, something its own committee had approved

Uttarakhand safest for newborns: first annual health survey

Survey will help measure progress of development goals and formulate district-level plans better, says health ministry

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 14, 2020)

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

The Ganga gets highly polluted after Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh: Report

The quality of Ganga water in the stretch from Kannauj to Prayagraj was categorised as being extremely deficient in dissolved oxygen

Ganga saga part II: redesign dams, not rivers

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

Living made difficult