Tribals voice protest against power project in West Bengal’s Ayodhya Hills

Villagers claim that the power project will destroy their forests and elephant habitats

Learning from past mistakes: It’s time to save urban rivers

Poorly designed, costly interventions need to be avoided to save river ecology 

Protest damned

The first tremors of ego clashes have rattled the anti-Tehri dam movement

Selling coal to Newcastle

COMMUNITY PROTECTION

Better the devil you know

Will George W Bush as US president be better than Al Gore for the global environment?

Buckling under

South Africa waters down proposed ban on plastic

News snippets

Ministry of Env. & Forests

2023 in a blink: DTE’s set of year-enders

A series of articles by Down To Earth encapsulating its coverage of 2023

Simply Put: Delete the future

Simply put: Development, non-development & displacement

Sri Lanka threatened by massive oil spill from burning vessel

A new source of fire records, hidden in the sands, gives us a bigger picture of the risks

The records from sand dunes matched the other records

Nigeria fares poorly in the Environment Performance Index 2022

Nigeria is not doing enough to address climate risks, report showed

Simply Put: World Indigenous Peoples Day 2021

Simply Put: Hiroshima Day

Experts call for an end to virgin plastic production by 2040

A new report has called for circularity innovation to help eliminate single-use plastic

Simply put: Road to development

Chamoli disaster factsheet: Why was it a snowball effect

DTE recommends: What to read and watch

Books and documentaries that you should catch up

Simply put: Hiroshima Day 2019

Simply put: PM's cloud theory

The Trillion Dollar Shift

Over the past 30 years, the world has seen great social improvements. 

Ease of living without a clean environment is meaningless

Finance Minister largely ignored environmental challenges in the budget