Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 15, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Budget kick: Keep these factors in mind while setting up a Bio-CNG plant
Political and institutional support must be gained through a sustained and deliberate communication process in which Bio-CNG’s economic and …
COVID-19: Hits & misses of Centre’s advisory on water supply, sanitation
A review of MoHUA April, 2020 advisory on safe management of water supply and sanitation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 3, 2019)
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 (April 23, 2019)
The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke
How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding …
What a waste
The Union government's move to invest in waste-to-energy technologies draws flak from many quarters
The trail of ash
NALCO will be sued if it fails to restore an ash pond breach that has caused an environmental nightmare in Orissa
Mine games
Haryana's politics-mining nexus plays havoc with the environment (Read full article)
Turn around India’s water story
Give local communities greater control over water structures for a secure future
Plastic crisis in the mountains: Will extended producer responsibility bring in change
EPR initiatives so far have been few and far, and in no way keeping up with the levels of plastic pollution they cause
NGT scraps 2017 ministry note easing sewage treatment norms
The standards were diluted by the notification that permitted more pollutants than what was allowed under the 2015 CPCB draft
Ayodhya airport expansion and discharge of water from Coca-Cola factory put villagers in a fix
Villages drowning after rains due to airport expansion while polluted water destroying fields, allege locals
On green track
Railways has fitted more bio-toilets this year than the total number fitted in the last three years
Veerbhadra Mishra on Ganga Action Plan
Veerbhadra Mishra heads the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an NGO at the forefront in trying to revive the Ganga's fortunes in Varanasi. A man who …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2023)
Dog bites decrease in Srinagar but the fear remains
Though there has been a slight decrease in the incidents of dog-bites in recent years in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital, cynophobia …
Bengaluru's largest lake catches fire yet again; waste burning, untreated sewage to be blamed
Locals have time and again approached the civic authority to stop the discharge of chemicals and other toxic substances from factories and …
How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth
The people of Edo Period Japan lived with time as it changed with the seasons, cherished materials and used the wisdom of reuse as a matter of …
Ground report: How is Chhattisgarh’s ‘dung deal’ working
plan to purchase cow dung to boost rural economy, ensure clean villages and solve stray cattle problem saw initial success, but things …
Manual scavenging has gone underground in India: WHO
Most undesirable, high-risk jobs typically subcontracted to temporary, informal workers based on their caste, says new report
Antibiotic awareness: States need to do more to dispose unused medicines
Government must introduce stringent rules as unused antibiotics continue to be dumped in the open, adding to India’s burden of …
Sustained focus, behaviour change needed to make people use new toilets: study
Adding a behaviour change component to sanitation programmes can motivate people to use toilets, it finds
How smartphones are killing the planet
The energy used to build a single smartphone is equal to the energy required to operate it for about a decade
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 20, 2020)