Road trauma

Supreme Court to now monitor road safety

Appoints three-member committee to give recommendations to reduce road accidents across the country

Nuclear tank explodes in Siberian plant

A blast in a secret weapons factory in the off-limits city of Tomsk-7 shook western Siberia recently and revived memories of Chernobyl.

Rise of the mutants

Butterflies near Fukushima plant are developing abnormalities

Greening of Gorbachov

THAILAND

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 10, 2023)

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

UN Africa panel flags vulnerability to road deaths

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says Zimbabwe is the most unsafe, with highest road accident deaths at 34.7 per 100,000 people

Switzerland votes for phasing out nuclear power, switching to renewable energy

The new energy policy prohibits construction of new nuclear power plants and promotes the use of renewable energy sources and energy conservation

Emergency call

Nearly 140,000 people in India died in road accidents in 2013, more than the death toll from many communicable diseases. But the country does not …

Nuclear nightmare

Japan is hit by yet another nuclear accident. Low safety standards and tardy government action aggravates the situation

UN reviews road safety plan

India struggles to clear its image of being the accident capital of the world

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Preventing forest loss on private land can aid elephant conservation: Paper

Elephants prefer areas close to forests, with high vegetation cover and low human population densities, according to a recently published …

Gujarat's Kakrapar nuclear plant shut down after leak

The reactor will take at least 24 hours to cool

Car-free Gurgaon, really?

It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city

N-plant weeded out

The snag-ridden past of Rajasthan Atomic Power Station's unit-I may have caught up with it

Dangerous liaisons

Sri Lanka is flirting with nuclear power

Walking and good roads a fundamental right: Bombay HC

In most Indian cities, pedestrians outnumber vehicle users. Yet, they remain invisible in policy action

Six years on, authorities clueless about Fukushima

Abnormally high radiation preventing humans and robots from cleaning the damaged reactors

‘Indian civilian nuclear reactors should be opened to public scrutiny’

On March 11, authorities at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in southern Gujarat closed down one of its units as a precautionary measure …

India signs nuclear convention

Intended as gift to Obama

Environment funds lying unused

Only 17 per cent of the funds created by the Supreme Court have been utilised in Delhi over last 15 years

Delhi's accident hot spots

What CSE analysis of accident hotspots identified by Delhi Police revealed

Walking down to work, how safe is it?

What about the rights of pedestrians?