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

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

Dry winter: Water levels in dams on Himachal rivers decline to half of their capacity; experts warn of thirsty summer

Snow & rain during December and January was supposed to replenish state’s glaciers  

Absence of MGNREGS work take a toll on festivities, medical care and nutrition intake in rural West Bengal

Villagers report grappling to make ends meet due to loss of guaranteed employment

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 7, 2024)

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

5 killed as Manipur floods due to Cyclone Remal; Imphal & Nambul rivers plugged after massive breaches

State government forms committee after viral social media reports claim alien fish have escaped into water bodies  

World Health Assembly: Countries approve draft to improve organ transplantation availability, including cells, tissues

Despite the progress made over the past two decades, access to transplantation is not equitable among member countries, resolution notes

Reuse of treated wastewater: Faecal coliform is a challenge in Delhi

Around 75% of sewage treatment plants managed by the Delhi Jal Board are failing to effectively treat faecal coliform

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 27, 2024)

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

Youth health crisis: Alarming rise in unhealthy habits, poor diets in European teens, warns WHO

Fewer than two in five adolescents eat fruits or vegetables daily; teens from low-income families at higher risk

Where will it land? Cyclone Remal may show unpredictable character, according to weather agencies

One model shows it making landfall on the West Bengal & Bangladesh coasts; the other shows it doing so on the Odisha coast between Puri and …

Solar City Varanasi: Why is PM Modi’s constituency failing to achieve its targets? Think ‘conceptual flaws’

Energy is not just for boosting the economy but for betterment of society and environment for all; this seems to have been forgotten in Varanasi

Voting without voters: Parties set up call centres to woo migrant voters, but few return

Scorching heat, lack of interest to vote among other reasons for low turnout

India’s small cats have been ignored & overlooked, experts tell DTE as leopard cat spotted in Maharashtra’s Pench

These cats not only keep a check on small mammals, rodents, reptiles and birds but also indicate the health of their bigger cousins like tigers …

What is the price tag of phasing-out coal? For China & India, at least $2 trillion

European study calculates cost of coal phase, underlines need for smooth transition for workers and communities

Free and fearless journalism in a fight for survival

Freedom of the press, a cornerstone of democracy, is under attack around the world, just when we need it more than ever

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 1, 2024)

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

Alok Shukla wins Goldman Prize or ‘Green Nobel’ for Hasdeo Aranya campaign

Hasdeo movement, spearheaded by Shukla, a model for environmental justice in India, says Goldman Foundation  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 25, 2024)

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

Ghazipur landfill fire: Annual choking hazard for Delhi

Authorities have missed multiple deadlines to clear out the legacy waste from Ghazipur landfill

Climatic crises can be handled by Ambedkarite principles like democratic governance & moral, spiritual humanism: V M Ravi Kumar

On Babasaheb’s birth anniversary, DTE speaks to the head, department of history, at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow on …

Bengaluru water crisis: Two elephants succumb to thirst after roaming over 50 km in Ramanagara near Karnataka capital

Bengaluru recorded its highest temperature in five years on March 29, prompting IMD to issue a heatwave alert

Unintended consequences: Street vendors in India struggle amid the single-use plastic ban

The sudden ban on single-use plastics has left vendors grappling to find suitable alternatives, significantly impacting their businesses

Jalpaiguri disaster: Tornadoes a symptom of warming & anomalous wind patterns

While tornadoes mostly occur in India's eastern states, some have been reported in the northwest regions as well

Kishanganj maize farmers at wit’s end as elephant herds from Nepal raid standing crop days ahead of harvest

Although such events have occurred in the past too, their frequency has gone up, say forest officials

Voting without voters: Uttar Pradesh migrant workers to be home for paddy transplantation next, may skip Lok Sabha polls

Migrant workers came back home for Holi, won't be able to come back for the  crucial electoral process