Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 7, 2025)

India, Nov. 10 -- NGT orders Amritsar to clear 33.67 MT waste by October 2026. The green tribunal directs Dehradun to clear Aasan dump by January 2026. NGT seeks replies on Delhi illegal borewells, ... Read More


India's digital thirst: What data centre giants aren't saying about their water use

India, Nov. 10 -- Down To Earth analyses ESG reports of India's top data centre operators - from AdaniConneX to Sify - and finds glaring gaps in water-use transparency. Firms promise "water-neutral" ... Read More


UN Women urges strong Gender Action Plan at COP30 to keep equality at heart of climate action

India, Nov. 10 -- As COP30 opens in Belem, UN Women urges adoption of a strong, well-funded Gender Action Plan (GAP). The agency warns failure to act could roll back gender equality and human rights ... Read More


How we're tracking avian flu's toll on wildlife across North America

India, Nov. 10 -- The highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI A (H5Nx) has severely impacted North America, decimating poultry and wildlife. A collaborative effort across Canada is tracking the virus,... Read More


How countries can be held responsible for staying within new legal climate target of 1.5degC

India, Nov. 10 -- The International Court of Justice has affirmed that countries must meet stringent legal obligations to limit global warming to 1.5degC, as outlined in the Paris Agreement. This dec... Read More


Conservation abandonment threatens global biodiversity goals, study warns

India, Nov. 10 -- Global efforts to meet biodiversity goals are being undermined by widespread 'conservation abandonment' New paper warns abandoned or reversed projects equal the size of Greenland T... Read More


If the Paris Agreement was about shared ambition, Belem must be about shared architecture, where finance meets fairness and growth meets governance

India, Nov. 10 -- As the world huddles in Belem this November for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the air in the Amazon will ca... Read More


Sampark Kendra: How e-governance is helping serve remote rural areas

India, Nov. 10 -- The Sampark Kendra in Chhattisgarh's Balodabazar-Bhatapara district exemplifies e-governance by connecting rural citizens with government officials in urban centres through online me... Read More


In a first, 913 blackbuck and Nilgai herded from the air into 'bomas' in MP's Shajapaur

India, Nov. 9 -- The forest department of Madhya Pradesh has spent 11 days in herding out 913 blackbuck and Nilgai from revenue lands in Shajapur district of the state in order to mitigate human-wildl... Read More


Gobar Times: Antibiotics in my fish curry?

India, Nov. 9 -- On a pleasant November afternoon in the coastal city of Bhubaneswar, Sucharita returned energetically from her school. With sparkling eyes she announced, "We had a special lecture tod... Read More