Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 9, 2022)

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

The lake colony

Call them the "lakers". Some 10,000 of them. Parts of the Dal (land and water) belong to them. And when they feel the need to make a …

Bird flu outbreak in Chandigarh’s Sukhna lake

Avian influenza virus is a highly pathogenic strain, show lab test results

CONTAMINATED WATER

Stuffed to death

How excess nutrients can kill a lake

A lake killed by sewage and silt

The local administration is trying valiantly to revive Udhagamangalam's once-famous Boat Lake.

INDIA

DYING LAKE

Goose, polluters of Nevada lake

Chungthang dam breach hits milk supply in Sikkim as Bihar halts deliveries amid road damage

Some co-operative federations started making milk powder given the supply chain disruptions

Drying trends recorded in more than 30 Indian lakes: Study

In about 100 large lakes, climate change and human water consumption were identified as the main drivers of water losses and a decline in lake volume

Kashmir: High organic load in Jhelum causes fish to come ashore

As fish wash ashore, experts point to environmental degradation of rivers and lakes in the valley

Bengaluru should celebrate World Water Day every day

Contrary to popular imagination, water resources have been misused rampantly in the urban centres, not rural areas

Not an ideal immersion

Instead of artificial tanks, devotees use lakes and large water bodies for immersion of idols of Lord Ganesh

Dolphin numbers have shrunk in Odisha, reveals Census

Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary was found to be having the largest number of the animals, though the figure was much less than in 2018

Carnivorous alligator gar, the latest threat for Srinagar’s idyllic Dal Lake?

Scientists fear the presence of the non-native fish will harm the fragile flora and fauna of Dal Lake

Almost 50,000 birds counted at Chilika lake on May 25

Habitat improvement, availability of food and eviction of prawn gherries in the lake had caused more birds to flock to Chilika this year

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 3, 2023)

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 (August 22, 2023)

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

Kyrgyzstan's glaciers at risk

Ninety four per cent of the country’s glaciers may melt by the end of this century and the situation is only aggravated by gold mining in …

Kandy gets beauty treatment

Sri Lanka employs aquatic plants to clean up its heritage lake

Mining effect: Aravalli gets new lakes

Deep digging in the mountain range for minerals has ruptured aquifers that now water mining pits

What 190 years of glacial lake outburst flood data tells us about the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Over 70% of GLOF outbreaks since 1833 have happened in last 50 years

Irrawaddy dolphin found dead in Chilika

This is the 8th dolphin death in Odisha in 8 months

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 15, 2024)

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