Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 22, 2024)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 25, 2020)

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

The women who are left behind

IN THE ABSENCE OF THEIR MEN: THE IMPACT OF MALE MIGRATION ON WOMEN Leela Gulati Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 200

India’s carbon roadmap

No signs of science

Shaky business

A deadly nexus between government officials and builders reduce most of Gujarat's homes to rubbles

Mumbai sources out city planning

Noida’s Supertech Twin towers done to dust in 9 seconds

Down To Earth’s photographer, Vikas Choudhary, captures the demolition of the towers with his camera

Ten dead, six injured in Mumbai building collapse

Yet another building collapses amid allegations of illegal modifications; number still trapped unknown

Climate crime revisited

Climate change and design of houses

Republic quaked

Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government-made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out …

Kerala looks for sand in silt

Desilting reservoir may contaminate drinking water

Concrete loss

Delhi rubble diaries

A casual investigation by a CSE researcher reveals that most municipal employees in the national capital neither know, nor care about proper ways …

A brush with cancer

Housepaints can increase bladder cancer rate

How to build a sustainable house using natural building materials

Protecting hill stations

Payback

Illegal construction around the Ranthambore National Park ought to go

‘New Raipur’ and ‘New Chhattisgarh’ in old India

Growth in the state and its capital city has reinforced and further accentuated an unequal order and concentration of wealth

Homing in on tradition

Traditional models of architecture, especially for mass housing purposes, may yet be resurrected

Workers in unorganised sector lack social security

Baker honoured

RESTORE GREEN COVER

Land use can be changed

Polluted groundwater cannot