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ECO-IMPACTS AND THE GREENING OF POSTMODERNITY: NEW MAPS FOR COMMUNICATION STUDIES, CULTURAL STUDIES AND SOCIOLOGY·Tom Jagtenberg, David …
What are we doing to stop plastic menace?
The mission to end the plastic menace must include ending single-use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel-based materials, …
Win some, lose most
To find out what the Union Budget has in store for science and the environment, Down To Earth spoke to environmentalists and representatives …
Challenges for Anil Madhav Dave, India’s new environment minister
Dave inherits a ministry that is being criticised for diluting environmental laws to facilitate quick industrial growth
Is an environmental apocalypse approaching India?
The Union government scarcely conceals its contempt for the environment working assiduously to dismantle environment protection.
How important is birth environment for you now?
Environmental factors at birth, such as temperature and altitude, can affect the baby's fertility later, show recent studies
How Nanak used nature in his verses to drive home his point
Down To Earth speaks to musician and singer Rabbi Shergill about the poetry of Sikhism’s founder and its many allusions to facets of …
TV’s ‘pop politics’
January 2, 2018 was the 16th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. His …
Relevance of Gandhian environmentalism
Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection, but his writings are replete with remarks on the excesses of industrial society
Imparting environmental education
What is the best approach to instil in the minds of students a lifelong respect for the environment?
‘The world doesn’t need a treaty on plastic waste reduction’
UNEP chief Erik Solheim, during his visit to India, the global host for World Environment Day, says unlike climate change, plastic waste can be …
Bureaucratic coup
Administrative officers wrest control of the environment ministry, relegating scientists to the sidelines
Expert Appraisal Committees to meet twice a month to fast track environmental clearance
Experts slam government move, stating it would short-change the importance of appraisal and detailed scrutiny in the environment clearance process
MoEFCC proposes new draft rules on wetland management
The new draft allows for the creation of state-level authorities for the management of wetlands
THE GREEN CRUSADE
Over a year has passed since Germany's Green party came to power in 1998 by joining hands with their allies, the Social Democrats. Looking back, …
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (October 27-30, 2020)
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 (July 17, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 28, 2019)
The peasant rebels of the Satnami Rebellion
'Fear of Lions' is a fictional retelling of the Satnami revolt against Aurangzeb, and underlines the importance of rebellion in times of oppression
Interview w/ Konda Reddy (Non-Pesticidal Management in Andhra Pradesh)
Konda Reddy "Yield increase is not the main aim of NPM, its about bringing down the costs..."
Inteview w/ Srinivas Reddy (Non-Pesticidal Management in Andhra Pradesh)
Srinivas Reddy "Seeing the demand for NPM vegetables, I am planning to bring all my land under NPM..."
Inteview w/ Anusuyya Amma (Non-Pesticidal Management in Andhra Pradesh)
Anusuyya Amma "No pesticides...No debts..."
Inteview w/ Khairunnisa Begum (Non-Pesticidal Management in Andhra Pradesh)
Khairunnisa Begum "There is no fear of suicides, now. People will not consume the biopesticides made from cow dung and urine..."
Will he beat around the bush?
He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully
Ease of doing business takes precedence over environmental and social concerns in project review process
The office memorandum has taken a very myopic view of any perceived delay in appraisal for environmental clearance