Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

Goa's disappearing khazan farms dying a slow death

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Net Gain: A photo essay on riverine Assam

How and where fishing nets of diverse shapes and varying mesh sizes are used in riverine Assam 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 5, 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 (July 10, 2019)

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

Reviving East Timbalier

Are all environment lovers environmentalists?

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

Everybody loves waterbody

Amid murder of an activist, 4,000 missing ponds and 195 FIRs on encroachments in East Kolkata Wetlands, West Bengal mulls a wetland policy

Court raps environment ministry

Asks why it allowed Nirma to create confusion on wetland

Nirma loses wetland

Environment ministry revokes clearance to its cement plant

Apex court spanner in Nirma cement plant

For a clean ganga

Conservation of shallow water bodies: Ecological consequences due to multiple anthropogenic stressors

The United Nations declared 2021-2030 the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Arid Americas: Are Pantanal, Colorado in a ‘post-drought’ stage

The Pantanal wetland in South America and the Colorado river basin in North America have experienced extreme drought in the last few years, which …

Whale shark caught in fishing net in Odisha dies

It is the first case in recent times of a beached or trapped whale shark dying before it could be released

World Wildlife Day: First-ever survey on fishing cats of the Chilika starts

Local fishers, wildlife activists and officials to operate 100 camera traps and enumerate the species’ population

Six feet under: A quarter of Earth's carbon may be buried beneath surface, finds study

New findings reveal how water helps take organic carbon deep beneath earth’s surface for long-term storage

Survival of rarest birds found in eastern Himalayas at risk

Deforestation, shifting cultivation and conversion of forests for plantations have led to massive loss of forests

One more to go

There are no revenue records for a wetland in Srinagar. Is that why it is being encroached and constructed upon by the government?

MoEFCC proposes new draft rules on wetland management

The new draft allows for the creation of state-level authorities for the management of wetlands

Scientists find energy source of bacteria responsible for arsenic contamination

Till now, it was known that some bacteria were breaking down compounds in the soil, causing arsenic to be released in the process. But no one …

Kandy gets beauty treatment

Sri Lanka employs aquatic plants to clean up its heritage lake

World Bank's Pakistan flood-control plan faulty

World Bank pulled up for aid to flood control programmes in Pakistan