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  

Tribunals alone can’t save our dying rivers: experts

Even as the dispute between Odisha and Chhattisgarh over Mahanadi river water has snowballed into a political fight, civil society organisations …

Union Cabinet approves setting up of Tribunal for Mahanadi water-sharing dispute

The Centre’s move comes a month after the Supreme Court ordered the Constitution to settle the decades-long dispute

Mahanadi: Neither an election issue, nor a developmental one

The dying river is marred with pollution and irrigation issues and yet it hasn’t made it to the election agenda

Odisha: Gharial hatchlings spotted three years in a row, 35 seen this time

Critically endangered reptile hatchlings seen in Mahanadi river’s Satkosia gorge, a Ramsar site

After Mahanadi floods, Odisha farmers at mercy of Sitrang

Farmers harvest immature standing crops in fear of greater losses due to cyclonic storm 

Locals oppose petrochemical project plan in Odisha’s Kendrapara over green concerns

Water use for the PCPIR will effect mangroves, Mahanadi river; Area already prone to disasters due to climate change, say environmentalists

POSCO to get water from Mahanadi

People protest Odisha government's decision to allocate water from the Mahanadi and Hansua rivers, saying it will turn large tracts of farms …