‘Scrap 24 dams, save Ganga’

Wildlife Institute of India report warns against ecological impact of dams in Uttarakhand

Missing the woods for wood

Is it worthwhile to clear forests to annually earn Rs 4,500 per hectare?

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (September 23-27)

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

Whither the National Green Tribunal?

Instead of giving financial and administrative support to the NGT, efforts are usually directed towards diluting its powers, defeating the very …

How the conservation potential of FRA has been wilfully undermined

The environment ministry hasn’t quite understood and accepted the FRA nor has it shown the required urgency to formulate plans for …

Costly push to mega projects

Cabinet Committee for Investment may dilute environmental and forest clearances

States’ entry ruffles GM lobby

Biotech firms object to states getting a say in approving GM crop trials

Faulty data, poor monitoring

A trading scheme for air pollutants could face the usual problem of implementation

Draft EIA notification favours industry over environment

Gaps galore in Ganga action plan

Protests against methane mining in Chhattisgarh

Faridabad mining clearances questioned by SC

Permission to construct permanent structures on Yamuna riverbed

Petty squabbles signify ill for the forest rights question

CAMPA bill defeated

Legal tussle

Green signal for Bt brinjal

Final nod from environment ministry in February 2010

Clearance based on false claims

Panel confirms Sompeta and Bhavanapadu thermal project sites are wetlands

On a skewed track

Metros must be subject to public review  

Court halts Sterlite expansion

Vedanta subsidiary hid facts while seeking clearances  

Put on notice

Forestland diversion for roads, railway lines made easy

MoEF waives requirement of obtaining gram sabha certificates for linear projects. Will it dilute forest rights of people?

Gaps galore

BRANCHING OUT: JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA Nalini Sundar et al • Oxford University Press • New Delhi • 2001 • 289pp

Controls off for diesel generators

Key environmental clause deleted from rules governing diesel generator sets barely six months after implementation

Opening up, but tread softly

April 2003 saw two diverse regions in India take a similar decision. Both partially opened the door to tourism in hitherto protected belts. One …