EIA notification 2020 in violation of FRA: Activists write to MoEF&CC
The provisions would adversely affect rights of forest dwellers and their right to minor forest produce
Environmental Impact Assessment: Why the govt needs to re-think its latest draft
The current EIA draft has severely diluted environmental protection, adding to the degradation of the environment; it can become an …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 18, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Wishful thinking
The finance minister's budget speech has come and gone. As analysts sit down to shred it to bits, Down To Earth looks at a wish list of …
Book review: Environmental issues in India
Book>> Environmental Issues in India: a Reader edited by Mahesh Rangarajan Pearson-Longman 2007
Reform for reform’s sake
Without bottom-up rehauling National Environment Protection Agency will be more of the same
Clearance rush
Environment ministry clears projects, even those rejected earlier, at an unprecedented rate
Environment is one of wars’ greatest victims
Illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between …
Dabur’s advertisements are attempts to confuse consumers
Inconsistent messaging to consumers by honey brands does not change the fact about their adulteration with sugar syrups; it only confuses them
Bhupender Yadav releases DTE’s State of India’s Environment 2022
Climate change, desertification and the sustainability-affordability linkage three extremely critical issues facing India today
Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (December 6-14)
Is China worsening the developing world's environmental crisis?
Pollution is killing people in the developing world at an alarming rate. While there are many reasons for this, one looms large: China
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 22, 2019)
Centre relaxes environmental clearance for sugar mills
MoEFCC notification comes at a time when sugar mills owe Rs 22,000 crore to farmers for cane supplied in 2017-18
The new rise of Nauru: can the island bounce back from its mining boom and bust?
As the island aims to develop sustainably, there are signs of the green shoots of recovery
UNEP launches new worldwide digital platform to encourage sustainable marine tourism
Green Fins Hub will help diving and snorkelling operators worldwide to make simple, cost-efficient changes to their daily practices by utilising …
COVID-19 effect: Public concerns about environment have risen
There was an increase of 16% in the numbers of people concerned about loss of biodiversity from 2016-2020, described by experts as ‘eco-…
'Environment is not a matter of luxury; it is one of survival'
Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain, named as one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine, calls for support to environmentalism …
Relevance of history
History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we …
Greening the industry
The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud CSE efforts …
Not fine!
Once again the Supreme Court cracks the whip on erring ministries. This time it is accompanied by a fine
Wooing the opposition
US diplomacy carries home another offering to please their Senate -- an agreement on energy and climate change with China
Santhali Sohrai murals: An etch in time
Santhali communities of Odisha and Jharkhand are changing their ways of painting Sohrai murals
Ozone-destroying greenhouse gas emissions from China increased significantly: Study
After 2012, emissions of dichloromethane from China accounted for 50–60 per cent of the global total
Cyclone alert sounded for Odisha, Andhra Pradesh
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over the next two days