Biodiversity governance: The agreements and laws that help enforce it
Major legally binding conventions to protect nature were adopted at the Rio Summit where several countries came together amid rapidly …
EIA notification 2020 in violation of FRA: Activists write to MoEF&CC
The provisions would adversely affect rights of forest dwellers and their right to minor forest produce
Draft EIA 2020: How it may impact North East
The region, with eight per cent of India’s total geographical area, has 25 per cent of India’s forest cover
Environmental Impact Assessment: Why the govt needs to re-think its latest draft
The current EIA draft has severely diluted environmental protection, adding to the degradation of the environment; it can become an …
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 27-31, 2020)
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
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 3, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 31-September 4, 2020)
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 6-10, 2020)
Centralisation of powers, diluted laws: Weak Water Act further diluted by latest amendments, say experts
Environment minister claims impetus to industries, improvement of environment protection while moving bill in Parliament
Draft National Forest Policy cleared; Cabinet to take decision
Experts say the focus of the draft will be on water conservation
Red Sanders falls back in IUCN’s ‘endangered’ category
The species was classified as ‘near threatened’ in 2018
Union Budget 2021-22 cuts funds for autonomous bodies under environment ministry
The allocations are also lower than the actual expenditure for 2019-20
Conservationists slam draft of new government report on elephants
It fails to understand the ecology of elephants, they say