Surge in clean fuel prices may hurt Delhi’s air pollution fight

Commission for Air Quality Management had earlier directed industries to switch to clean fuel 

Medical waste incineration plant in Bihar’s Sone river bed faces public flak

The waste generated from 98 industrial units across Bihar will be transported to the proposed unit for burning, posing health risks to …

Rewind 2018: State of the air India breathes

Here are the major policies framed, studies conducted and steps taken in the last year over air and its quality

CO2 emissions soar; climate panel calls for rapid scale-up of low-carbon technology

IPCC report on mitigation says that the current level of ambition not enough to stop climate change. Prescribes a few controversial solutions

Fuel economy standards: sanctity of decision making process must be upheld

Car industry's efforts to dilute standards approved by PMO will significantly reduce fuel savings

India’s flip-flop on London Olympics

Sports ministry yet to take a decision on boycott after Bhopal tragedy victims’ outcry

The chemistry of living death

THE world's biggest industrial disaster has been rendered today its most trivial. Criminal corporate culpability and governmental concern for its …

Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol

Loses moral position to call on developing countries to limit emissions

Tata offers to take up Bhopal gas tragedy liability

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 7, 2024)

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

Healing festering wounds

An action plan is ready to decontaminate UCILÔÇÖs plant site in Bhopal. It just needs to be implemented

Lowland rice is a carbon sink

Pratap Bhattacharyya, senior scientist at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) in Odisha, along with his team at the institute, says rice …

El Nino to cause global losses worth $84 trillion by 2099, India may be more vulnerable than estimated

Impacts of El Nino will be more pronounced in poor countries in the tropics like India

Developing world taps renewable energy at twice the rate of rich countries

China leads the global rank on clean energy; India is placed fourth

Methane time bomb ticks under melting Arctic ice

Global warming releasing large amounts of dangerous greenhouse gas from permafrost

Dow in the dumps?

India’s sustainable jet fuel may get internationally certified in 2023

Researchers believe inadequate feedstock collection mechanisms and a lack of refineries could prevent its mass scaling

World’s 60 largest banks pumped $5.5 trillion into fossil fuels after the Paris Agreement: Report

$673 billion spent on fossil fuel financing in just 2022; clean energy finance has been largely stagnant

World Environment Day 2020: Looking ahead of lockdown

The COVID-19 lockdown brought us clean air and a blue sky, but at a cost; What do we need to keep it going? Sunita Narain sets the agenda 

Latest IPCC report reeks of northern agenda

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group Report III suggests historical emissions are a thing of the past; it endorses carbon …

Iran-India gas pipeline laid low by geopolitics

Mani Shankar Aiyar is known for the many controversies sparked by his provocative comments and controversial ideas. As Minister for Petroleum and …

Russia submits climate plan; commits to reducing emissions by 25-30% by 2030

Thirty-two developed nations have submitted their INDCs so far

Chile becomes first South American country to enforce carbon tax

At $5 per tonne of carbon emitted, tax law will target big power plants

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