Fruit flies develop specific defences against common bacteria; may explain human susceptibility to infections

Bacteria in their food and environment mould the immune systems of fruit flies, notes study

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 23, 2022)

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

How Delhi’s waste-to-energy plants are way off the mark

The recent uproar against the Okhla plant highlights how none of three in the Capital is effectively doing what they are supposed to

The flyash burden

Will the targets set for utilising flyash by power plants be met?

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

Pollution-hit Tuticorin salt manufacturers worried by food safety act being implemented

Fly ash from thermal power plants in the area settles on the salt; affects quality

Ashes to ashes

...or raw materials for the industries?

Mercury in air, water

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (October 21-25)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 25, 2019)

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

NGT asks Chhattisgarh to file report on fly ash utilisation

The state generates over 20 million tonnes of fly ash every year, but about 70 per cent of it remain unutilised

47 power plants in Vidarbha

Why set up thermal plants when the region is power surplus?

White fly attack, untimely rains and drought; Rajasthan farmers stare at losses

Farmers are now banking on the Rabi crops as they lost hopes of a good income in the Kharif season

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 25, 2019)

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 17, 2023)

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

Flyash can be used viably

Aravallis undermined

Is Rs 5-crore penalty on fly ash polluters really enough?

The NGT penalty, when compare with the profit coal power plants make, doesn’t look very effective

Big numbers

The state is on a spree

India needs policy overhaul to address frequent havoc caused by ash pond breaches

Financial compensation not enough, comprehensive standards and design criteria required for tailings dams

As told to Parliament (July 12, 2019): India doubled usage of fly ash in nine years

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 1-5)

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

Udipi farmers' land taken over for thermal power plant

Eco-friendly slag to help make cement in Chhattisgarh

Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …