Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 20, 2023)

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

Heavy metal out there: Researchers detect barium in atmospheres of 2 exoplanets

Discovery of barium is surprising because heavy elements like barium are expected to quickly fall into the lower layers of the atmosphere

Low exposure, high risk

Finds study on common contaminants

In Short

Meta Outstripped

The pace of construction at a controversial copper plant in Goa has not slackened despite protests from the people and the church

Science & Technology - Briefs

Adulterated milk floods Maharashtra

Simply put: How to solve the Cauvery water dispute

42 rivers have extremely high concentration of neurotoxic heavy metals

Ganga was found to be polluted with five heavy metals, namely chromium, copper, nickel, lead and iron

E-waste contaminating Delhi’s groundwater and soil

Researchers have discovered an alarming amount of toxic heavy metals leaching into soil and groundwater in East Delhi's Krishna Vihar industrial area

Heavy metals polluting Kolkata's groundwater

Science & Technology - Briefs

Uranium traces in Punjab children

The search for the source has just begun

What goes down must come up

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down …

Heavy metals, light target

A floating plant shows Kolkata wetlands are turning toxic

Change is in the process

A conversion problem

Catalytic converters, devices meant to clean car exhausts, are backfiring on the environment

Industrial processing contaminates tea

How did it go wrong?

The corrupt and inefficient among pollution control authorities have surrendered India's groundwater to unscrupulous industrial units

Disasters in the making?

Groundwater contamination in India is verging on disastrous proportions, especially with regard to mercury

Tilapia fish may have killed gharials in Chambal

E-waste posing health risks for workers in scrapyards

EU agrees on cleaner rivers, lakes

Ankleshwar's groundwater high on heavy metals

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat