Elemental woe

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 25, 2023)

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

Synchronised rise of ‘bad air’ in cities of Indo-Gangetic Plain in 2020: CSE analysis

Landlocked region cannot rely on mitigation efforts by the National Capital Region alone, say experts

Hailstorm drives farmers to suicide

Over 100 kill themselves as large tracts of crops are damaged; food prices likely to go up

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 10, 2024)

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

Sustainable agriculture: Punjab needs policies to support crop diversification

Growing maize instead of paddy can reduce water use by 60-70% 

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

Northern power grid on the blink

States were cautioned more than 400 times against overdrawing electricity

New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

Regulating living environment for public safety

Fishy deaths

Pesticide causes blindness in fish in Punjab

Peafowl deaths in Punjab linked to pesticides

Jan Aushadhi Stores fail to take off

Very few visit governmentÔÇÖs generics retail outlets

Indo-Gangetic Plain residents live 7 years less than other Indians: Study

This is because air quality in the region fails to meet the WHO’s guidelines on particulate pollution

US environmental body proposes temporary pesticide-free zones to protect honeybees

A large number of bees are exposed to pesticide spraying when growers enter into contracts with beekeepers for pollination services

Clucking in alarm

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the …

India’s forest cover declines

North-eastern states and tribal districts witness unprecedented forest loss

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

Road risk

Uranium in food, water in Bathinda

Punjab and Haryana are unable to get out of paddy-wheat cycle; why is that?

Experts say low returns and post harvest losses and management inefficiences among major roadblocks for crop diversification 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 7, 2020)

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

Provide farmers with means to salvage wet grains, M S Swaminathan tells states

Agriculture scientist also suggests maintaining seed reserves for growing alternate short-duration crops

Greenest of all

Model building design that helps save energy and money by exploiting the sun’s movement