Compromised!

Tiger reserve security in Karnataka

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

Dandeli mini-hydro project rejected

No return of the native

Indian reservoirs brimming as monsoon advances

Storage levels in 123 reservoirs monitored by Central Water Commission was 194 % of the levels of corresponding period …

COVID-19: NIRDPR, Unicef train 2.8 mln community leaders online

The programme aims to make village communities more aware of COVID-19

Bengaluru water utility to launch door-to-door drive to check illegal borewells

Residents continue to drill for borewells, unaware that registration is now mandatory

Rivers of discord

Protests against land acquisitions

Chikungunya spreads its tentacles

Chikungunya, a viral disease borne by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has assumed epidemic proportions in large swathes of the country, especially …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 3, 2020)

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

Karnataka cancels leases of two mini hydel projects in Western Ghats

Developer Maruthi Power Gen had fudged facts to show one project as two to circumvent clearances from Centre

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

Corruption taint mattered little

People vote in politicians accused in illegal mining activities in Karnataka, Odisha

Towers of pollution

60 per cent of telecom towers in India are powered by diesel

Graziers protest land diversion

The last remaining contiguous grasslands in Karnataka diverted for development

Gold’s toxic legacy

Mines release arsenic, contaminate water and soil

The paddy compulsion

War continues between Karnataka, Tamil Nadu farmers over Cauvery water for cultivation

Environment minister cornered over bio-piracy of brinjal

National Biodiversity Authority says decision on legal proceedings soon

Mining for people

New mining bill to ensure industry shares its super-profits with affected people

With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

What bleeds Bellary

How illegal iron ore mining has bled Karnataka’s Bellary district

Cauvery dispute: Karnataka asked to release a third of the water in its reservoirs

Formula for sharing water in rain deficit years remains elusive

Gearing up for Bt cotton

Farmers ready to sow GM cotton in Andhra Pradesh