World Water Day: How mining is depleting groundwater in Rajasthan’s Alwar

Illegal mining in the Aravalli Hills has destroyed hillocks, brought prosperity to locals and depleted the groundwater table

People goaded to save their forests

Fed up with government inaction on mining and deforestation in the Aravallis, the people of the region are taking it upon themselves to end the …

At the feet of poverty

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In Court

In Court

SC rebukes Haryana govt for throwing open Aravallis for realtors, miners

The apex court asked the state to not amend the Punjab Land Preservation Act that “favours builders”

The Eklingapura experience

A joint forest management initiative succeeded at Eklingapura mainly because foresters were able to respond to the needs of the community.

Requiem for wasteland development

Aravalis mining ban

Haryana's move to expose Aravallis to 'development' may turn Delhi into a desert

Already vulnerable gaps in the hills may no longer be able to protect north India from the Thar

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 14, 2023)

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

Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …

Rajasthan's ambitions

Order toned down

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 27, 2023)

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

Healthy move, say environmentalists,hegemony, complain states

The Rajasthan and Haryana governments feel threatened by the Centre's move to stop industrial, mining and quarrying activity in the Aravalli …

The Himalayas are fraying — but an interdisciplinary approach can help us save it

Ecologists and agricultural scientists at recent conference in Meghalaya brought up impacts of human economy on hilly and mountain ecosystems

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 19, 2024)

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

Aravallis: A mountain lost

The mountain range's role in defining the shape of the Indian subcontinent and its climate, and the fact that it triggered the explosion of …

Digging the earth

Earlier it was deforestation, now it is mining that threatens the once stately Aravallis with total destruction

Decline of the Aravallis

The pressure on land threatens the vivid and spectacular biodiversity of these hills

Sylvan suburbia: Why a forest corridor between Delhi and Haryana needs legal protection

Apart from housing rich wildlife, the forest corridor spread across Gurugram, Faridabad and the Asola Sanctuary also protects the National …

Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …

Aravallis razed

Repeated court orders fail to save part of the primitive mountain range in Alwar from mining

What will Supreme Court judgement on Aravalli mean for forest conservation?

Changes to conservation rules may be fast tracked, say activists