Smog towers ineffective, at least 40,000 needed in Delhi to combat toxic air: DPCC tells NGT
Towers can reduce particulate pollution by 12% in 200 metre radius; DPCC suggests turning buildings into air pollution control museums
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 15, 2023)
Death is in the air
Air quality in Indian cities has never been worse. More and more people are dying in urban India due to high levels of pollutants in the air. The …
When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco’s PR playbook
Industry-funded studies successfully muddied the waters and stalled further federal investigations or regulations addressing gas stove safety
COVID-19: India reports 14 new cases and 152 active cases on November 10
India recorded the highest number of deaths (1,260) globally from September 25-October 22, 2023, primarily due to retrospective adjustment, …
Delhi PM2.5 levels rose by 68 per cent within a day in early November: CSE
Rapid build-up in short timespan able to tip air quality into severe category as local pollution already very high, says thinktank
Deadly nursery: DTE analysis of studies in last 5 years shows how air pollution kills India’s children
Around 25 research studies and papers published between 2018 and October 2023 seen by DTE, show that poor air causes low birthweight, stunting …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 25, 2023)
The anatomy of congestion
Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …
Antarctic tipping points: The irreversible changes to come if we fail to keep warming below 2℃
Current global heating is taking the Earth system across a threshold humans have never experienced, into a climate where Antarctica’s ice …
Licence to kill
One person dies every hour in Delhi due to ambient air choked with particles. Diesel exhaust is a major source of fine particles that are …
A Nationalised Nightmare
One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …
Time for an overhaul
Having served the country for more than a century and a half, the Indian Railways has taken apathy in its stride. Politicians’ whims, and …
‘Our injunction won’t lead to the depletion of ground water’
Down To Earth speaks to KR Jaithran, chairman of the Kodungallur municipality, about its new injunction to plant two fruiting trees in the …
Ozone levels increase in Delhi, pose health risk
This could lead to a public health crisis as ozone is extremely hazardous to human health
Rains bring some respite from severe air pollution
That’s no guarantee though that air quality would not deteriorate. The authorities should use the respite days to better plan how to …
MoEFCC releases details of National Clean Air Programme; no clarity yet on emission reduction targets
The concept note acknowledges the need for time-bound initiatives at both city and rural level to combat air pollution
To let citizens die of air pollution is anti-national
Since 1996, it has been a suffocating journey of knowing and forgetting. An insiders' narration of the politics behind the mass murder
Udta PM2.5
Instead of rejecting scientific studies on air pollution, the government should come up with better data to arrive at more conclusive findings
Your air-conditioner can't keep you safe from Delhi’s noxious air
Indoor air quality is directly dependent on quality of outdoor air. It's time the aam aadmi came out on the streets to clean up not just …
Kirk Smith on new paradigm of exposure management
Kirk Smith, professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, talks about new paradigm of air pollution exposure …
Phil Dickerson on using alternative techniques for exposure assessment
Phil Dickerson of the US Environmental Protection Agency talks about Next Generation Air Measuring Research Programme at the International …
Sunita Narain spells out the agenda for clean air in Delhi
Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain recommends measures for cleaning Delhi's air to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the International Conclave …
Anumita Roychowdhury talks about air quality management in Indian cities
Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director, policy and advocacy, Centre for Science and Environment, presents the assessment of air quality …