No sweat over this shirt

A fabric developed at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, promises to keep sweat from being a bother

Caught by the horns

The closure of the Idgah abattoir gets under the skins of meat eaters in the Capital, who have turned into unwilling vegetarians

Daubs fo gilt on the Israeli image abraod

Two films on Israel, despite their obvious public relations motive, nevertheless catch and hold firmly, the viewer's interest.

New ventures offered computerised overview

A computerised information service on the relevant technology and potential for an industrial venture will soon be in the market.

Gene storage bank gets major facelift

Worried by the steady erosion of India's wealth of genetic diversity, a major expansion project will quadruple storage capacity in the national …

Taking the magic out of miracles

Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do

Future tense

What will work? Investments in future projects? Expensive fresh water? Recycling for industries? Legislations?

Against the haze

Delhi's Centre for Science and Environment starts a fiery campaign against smoke emanating from vehicles

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

A bewildering range

ARTISTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD·exhibition of paintings by various artists·New Delhi· August, 1998

False start

Pollution control agencies are as toothless as the automobile and fuel industry is apathetic to deteriorating urban air quality

Family bonds

"Troubled children don't need counselling. They need parental love and support." A myth? Not at all, say behavioural scientists

Money matters

As the first-ever assembly of the 161-member Global Environment Facility (GEF) draws near, many non-governmental organisations are left out in …

A disease called pollutionitis

Most of Delhi's urban elite suffer from this disease which makes them "rationally irrational". The disease is accompanied by finger-pointitis and …

No fire exits in Delhi

Bad urban planning and a corrupt administration means fires will continue to claim lives in Delhi

Better now than never

Two years after a Supreme Court order, the government sets up the first fuel testing lab in Noida

Urban villages - an oxymoron?

Urbanisation in developing countries is marked by large increases in population and has consequences such as sprawl. As a physical phenomenon, …

Review of 'Trees of Delhi', a book by Pradip Krishen

Book>>Trees of Delhi A Field Guide by Pradip Krishen Penguin Books India>> Dorling Kindersley 2006

Puppeteer with no strings

Documentary>> Katputli by Sudheer Gupta Produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust and Prasar Bharati 30 minutes

Carriage of convenience

Metro projects can ease congestion. But lack of integrated planning is undoing the benefits of this mass transport system. Nidhi Jamwal and Ankur …

World Environment Day 2023: CSE finds ground-level ozone pollution in Delhi-NCR all-year problem, persists at nights too

New Delhi and South Delhi areas were worst affected by ground-level ozone between March 1, 2023 and May 30, 2023

Is it a matter of governance?

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 26, 2020)

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

Experts welcome Delhi government’s electric vehicle policy

The policy aims to make a quarter of all new vehicle registrations battery-operated by 2024

COVID-19: Delhi reports 300 fresh cases in a single day; health minister to hold emergency meeting today

The number of new cases in Delhi has risen dramatically in the past few days despite the city witnessing a dip in the previous months