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

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

Floods, landslides devastate Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona

Hurricane Fiona completely disrupted the island’s water supply and power network

Simply Put: Universal gravitation

Averting disaster

Software will help landslide management in Sikkim

Coir better than synthetics for making geo-grids

Ready to roll

Debris, into Karnaprayag

Simply Put: Movable assets

Nature's fury

CHINA

Slippery ground

Quake-hit areas of Pakistan threatened by landslide

Over 100 active permafrost structures identified in Jhelum basin, can cause catastrophic disasters in future: Study

Active rock glaciers in Kashmir Himalayas also hold significant volumes of water, which underlines the need to explore their hydrological …

THE PHILIPPINES

Silent Trigger

Solar heating of the atmosphere causes landslides

Landslide blocks river, forms lake

Pak valley at risk

As told to Parliament (December 7, 2023): 397 Asiatic lions died in Gujarat from 2019-22

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

The turmoil beneath

How landslides of the 1998 kind in Garhwal can be prevented

Aftershock, rebuliding after Pakistan earthquake

Operation landslide

Joshimath sinking: Land subsidence worsened due to stopping flow of water, suggests NIH

Part 5: The Roorkee institute has advised making channels for the flow of water in cities situated in mountains

Simply Put: Sweeping away the mess

EL Salvador

Rains claim 120 lives

Joshimath sinking: Over 50% of Joshimath high-risk area, finds IIT-Roorkee

Part 4: A team from institute conducted tests at 12 locations around Joshimath to find cause for land subsidence

Fighting climate change: Why we need more policy experts, green jobs in India

We cannot leave the creation of green jobs to the future; they need to be created now

Tehri dam oustees to be rehabilitated again; threat of landslides