Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 26, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Rajaji Park director, forest officials named in poaching probe
The investigation is about tiger and leopard parts seized in Rajaji last year
Ganga equally polluted in pre- and post-monsoon phase: CPCB report
Prepared in June this year, the report was declassified recently
Savour the lingra
Equine flu strikes Uttarakhand
Sweet victory
UPs cane farmers get to quote their price in a sellers market
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
The great Himalayan debacle: We have abused the hills for long, it is time for atonement
We must now revisit the core tenets of ecotourism and sustainable development for our hills
‘Assault on the Himalayas’: Chairman of Char Dham Committee resigns
The belief that the HPC could protect this fragile ecology has been shattered. I can do no more, Ravi Chopra wrote
Let the Van Gujjars remain nomadic
The attitudes of the forest department towards the Van Gujjars’ nomadism must change in order to view it as a matter of right for …
Cloudbursts in Uttarakhand again, flooding too
Several homes and roads in a number of villages in Uttarkhand’s Chamoli, Tehri and Rudraprayag districts flooded due to cloudburst …
Glacier breaks in Chamoli, experts blame low snowfall
Use of concrete instead of traditional wood and masonry in the Himalayas is creating a heat-island effect, warming the range, they added
‘One snow leopard gets killed every day’
As India has a sizeable proportion of the global snow leopard distribution range, it has an important role to play in conservation of the world&…
Why so many cloudbursts? Experts point to rising temperature
Scientists believe such extreme weather events are occurring sooner every year owing to climate change
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 9, 2023)
North India Deluge 2023: Spectre of flooding hangs over Joshimath after glacial burst
The town’s residents have not yet been given alternative housing after January’s subsidence; they have been left to fend for themselves
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 10, 2023)
Cloudbursts in Himachal, Uttarakhand evidence of climate change: Experts
At least 26 cloudbursts occurred in the Himalayan region between January and July, 2021
Farmers to continue protests after inconclusive meeting with government
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wades into row, external affairs ministry hits back
Save Sattal: Tomorrow will be too late; we must start change today
Sattal has been engulfed by raging fires. It grieves the dying springs that once cascaded down to form powerful rivers that now run dry&…
Rock, ice avalanche triggered Chamoli disaster, satellite images show
A crack near the ‘bergschrund’ (a crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from stagnant ice) of the steep hanging …
How a vegetable can tackle malnutrition in the hills
Gaithi, a tuber variety that grows in the hills of Uttarakhand, has both nutritive and medicinal properties
Corbett Tiger Reserve issues shoot-at-sight order to tackle poaching
The authorities have also issued order for extensive frisking of visitors to the park and barring villagers in the vicinity from entering the …
Chipko a distant memory
The women who led the landmark environmental movement 50 years ago, speak to Down To Earth
Natures own water purifiers
River banks are efficient water filters. Haridwar shows how to make most of them