Swollen Narmada displaces thousands in Gujarat — was this an “avoidable” disaster?

Some experts and political parties attributed the situation to the lethargic and unaccountable actions of Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) Dam operators

Cyclone Biporjoy likely to make landfall in Gujarat; what is unusual about it?

Biporjoy is unusual because most models could not predict that it would intensify into an extremely severe cyclonic storm

Shear desperation: How can India’s wool sector be revived

India’s once thriving wool economy now depends on imports to sustain demand. Will the recent import of Australian Merino sheep for …

Rs 1,200 cr redevelopment project a boon or bane for Gandhi Ashram?

Debate builds around whether the historic Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad should be remoulded to keep up with the times, or retain its simplicity

Gujarat farmers sow potato seeds registered by PepsiCo, in symbolic protest

The multinational had sued four farmers in April, triggering a controversy that has now been reignited

Gujarat has put just one e-vehicle on the road in last six months: Govt data

Maharashtra, which set a target of registering five lakh EVs by 2022 — an average of 274 vehicles per day — managed only four per day …

Everyone loves an overflowing dam

Even as the government raced to fill up the reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar Dam by September 15 (one-and-a-half months ahead of the schedule as …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2019)

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

Gujarat launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution

Launched on World Environment Day, the programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to …

Earthquakes hit Gujarat and Maharashtra

Four tremors hit Gujarat’s Saurashtra and Kutch regions early on January 20, while a 3.6 tremor hit Palghar near Thane in Maharashtra in …

Gujarat declares drought after months of delay

While other states had declared drought months ago, Gujarat govt kept calling it a “scarcity of water”

Climate change in India: Gujarat faces problem of plenty

Regular rains in the state's arid Banni grassland force Maldharis to take up farming, an internal feud erupts

India's forgotten Africans

Down To Earth speaks to Beheroze Shroff, Lecturer at the Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine about the current-…

Are Gujarat’s climate change actions ‘superficial’?

There are conflicting views on the status of implementation for the state action plan on climate change (SAPCC) in Gujarat

Breeding benefits

A community-led initiative in Gujarat has been instrumental in getting government recognition for the Banni buffalo, a drought- tolerant breed

Simple, easy and healthy

Gujarat trader makes affordable sanitary napkins and develops India's first machine to hygienically dispose them of Darshan Desai

Haul your own garbage

Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands-on is the best way to beat municipal overload

Cloudy days for solar cooker

Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade-old promotion campaign, only a few …

Damned despair

Oustees of the Sardar Sarovar Project still languish in large numbers for a roof over their head

Jettison geography

A fresh map of coastal Gujarat may enable the completion of a jetty whose construction is under dispute

Strange but true

Existing clean-up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine-based units

Creeping malady

The once-fertile state of Gujarat now faces a future plagued by extreme soil salinity and large-scale land degradation

Forests, fuel and fodder

From deficit to surplus: a success story of joint forest management from Sakwa, a tiny village in south Gujarat

Return to haven

A couple decided to give up the city life and experiment with a sustainable, agrarian lifestyle. Their efforts are bearing fruit after 15 years …

Sordid saga

The Sanghi jetty case takes a new turn as the Gujarat high court directs the Union government to re-examine the issue of environment clearance