Delhi breeds water inequity

The water thirsty capital is the perfect example of how not to manage water. Tracing where the three billion litres disappear everyday

Direct to home

Where would homeless children broadcast their view of the world? The streets, of course, says SOPAN JOSHI

'I will not say Delhi is an environmental disaster'

Delhi is bursting at the seams from the pressures of rampant urbanisation. Everything that can possibly go wrong in this metro of 10 million …

Reviving NCR’s air: CAQM submits action plan to NGT, mostly in line with CSE recommendations

The action plan incorporates the updating of emission inventories and source apportionment studies across the entire NCR

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 4, 2023)

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

India’s air quality management needs transboundary accountability to be effective

Existing policy levers and lessons from global experiences can help form an airshed-level air quality management framework

Congress manifesto promises subsidised foodgrain to 7.3 million people

Tremors shake Delhi

Epicentre in Haryana

Market and mitigation dominated G20 climate actions — not a good signal leading to COP28, claim experts   

Woefully inadequate in response to Global Stocktake Report and unlikely to keep temperature rise within 1.5°C  

Delhi government to set up Rs 10.3 crore water recycling plant in Bawana

At present, Bawana water treatment plant lacks a recycling plant leading to acute wastage of water  

Delhites, all that rain does not mean you will have a smog-free Diwali. Here is why

Firecrackers, industries, vehicles, date of the festival and late withdrawal of the monsoon, all could cause a repeat of previous Diwalis, experts say

Dust, high temperatures bring Delhi’s air quality down to 'poor'

The Aravalli range plays a critical role in checking sand migration from the Thar Desert to Delhi-NCR; but they now stand degraded

Delhi government diverting water to hotels, alleges BJP MLA

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit admits 11 underground reservoirs lying idle because of water shortage

Yamuna river front development: MoEF seeks more time from green tribunal for action plan

Status report filed earlier this month raises concern over dumping of debris in river floodplain and construction too close to water channel

Change the mindset from ‘last mile’ to ‘first mile’

Alaknanda and Chittaranjan Park in South Delhi epitomise everything that is wrong with urban mobility in India—a deluge of private cars …

Diwali amid COVID-19: Will NGT order be enough to keep people from fireworks?

Air quality remains severe in Capital Delhi for 5th day straight

Delhi's accident hot spots

What CSE analysis of accident hotspots identified by Delhi Police revealed

'We will work to free Delhi of pollution and improve civic amenities'

After a fortnight of uncertainty that followed assembly-election results in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party is finally set to form the government. …

Cool it

We need ways to reduce the need for cooling devices. This means we need to build with nature, not against it

Simply Put: Ghazipur landfill fire

WATCH: Kisan Sansad or farmers’ parliament starts at Delhi's Jantar Mantar

The farmers want the centre to take back the three controversial farm laws

COMMITTED MOVES

JUDICIARY DOES ITS BIT

SHUTTERS DOWN

Stinking blasts