CPCB flags railway stations on green parameters
The Central Pollution Control Board assessed 36 stations or 5% of the major stations in India
COVID-19 lockdown: Why battle against air pollution needs to continue
Air crisis will spiral if it’s not contained long-term and if mitigation actions are diluted to make up for time lost during lockdown
When flu turns fatal
In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …
Is India headed towards a locust plague
Exceptional summer breeding may prompt swarms to remain in the country through end of year, move east & south
Enough is enough
For over a week after Diwali, Delhi breathed poison. Air pollution peaked to unprecedented levels. Public anger forced emergency measures. But …
Indigenous civil engineers
Traditional earth diggers and masons, who mined the Bhatti area of the Aravallis for decades, dig in their heels as the Delhi administration …
Obama visit: civil society appeals to Modi not to succumb to US pressure on IP laws
US actions jeopardise India’s pro-poor patent laws that promote generic drugs production, says online global petition
Poor kids rarely get free treatment in private hospitals of Delhi: study
Quota for free treatment of economically weaker sections in private hospitals under-utilised; less than half of the children referred from …
Yamuna set to cross danger mark in Delhi
Unprecedented quantity of water released from upstream Hathinikund barrage; will the consequent flood be worse than the one in 1978?
When will Indian scientists unbolt?
Are Indian scientists really too busy to answer emails and phone calls? wonders Dinsa Sachan
Trouble at sea
From imposing restrictions on harvesting of shark species to having second thoughts about them, the authorities seem utterly confused
Cleansing chronicle
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Bringing order to streets
Centre legalises street vending and gives the profession its due respect. But accommodating vendors is a challenge
Environment ministry rapped
Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes
Environment ministry’s desperate attempts to suppress expert panel report on Western Ghats
Defies Information Commission’s order and obtains stay from Delhi High Court to keep the report out of public domain
New Age Approach
We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …
Drowning In Human Excreta
Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …
Political apathy, unplanned urbanisation make vector-borne diseases hard to control in India
Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to 2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and …
FSSAI draft guidelines do not propose ban on junk food in schools
Guidelines submitted to Delhi High Court dwell more on promoting consumption of water and hygiene among school kids through Facebook,Twitter
Junk food in schools: high court asks FSSAI to frame rules
Food standards authority says it has invited proposals for developing guidelines for making available quality food in school canteens
Tata Energy Research Institute In service of polluters
The Swedish experts have identified traces of over 40 substances in diesel exhaust that are listed by the epa as hazardous air pollutants and …
No public transport?
Cars are swamping roads at an unprecedented rate, outstripping the increase in road space. The results are congestion, reduced mobility and …
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 20-24, 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
COVID-19: Centre doesn’t clarify basis for CDSCO authorising remdesivir
Government also does not provide clarity about whether remdesivir should be given to only severe patients
Has Modi succumbed US’ pressure on patents?
Prime minister’s statement, agreeing to implement recommendations of India-US joint working group on intellectual property, would make …