Mangroves protect coastal communities, accountability in governance is need of the hour: Experts

Mapping and quantifying human-driven stress factors can help achieve accountability, notes experts

UN chief slams ‘immoral’ profiteering from fossil fuels amid global energy crisis

Calls for windfall tax to fund fair policies and sustainable energy solutions  

Planning to install rooftop solar panels? How about some grass beneath it

Integrating green roofs and solar PV systems can enhance their functions and effectiveness through cooling and shading effects

NASA’s new tool makes it possible to see future sea level rise

The tool makes it possible to access details based on projections of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report released August 9  

Towards circular economy: What to do with legacy waste in India

Bioremediation to treat legacy waste and reclaim old dumpsites may not always work; the composition of the waste also matters

Indian research can help cut nitrogen fertiliser waste

Indian scientists manage to identify phenotypes, visibly identifiable features that determine the efficiency with which cultivars use nitrogen

In deep water: Emissions can add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise, study finds

Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute to this 38-cm rise — beyond the amount that has been projected …

Indian CNG buses better than diesel buses; almost conform to Euro VI norms

Attempts are being made to misrepresent CNG bus emissions as more dangerous than diesel bus emissions, says Centre for Science and Environment

Power hat trick

Tri-generation systems use one fuel for simultaneous heating, cooling and power generation

Carbon budget: Unfair share has been the way of the world

Till 1989, the original seven emitters appropriated 77% the world's carbon space. Between 1990 and 2019, China, along with the original seven, …

Why geoengineering is still a dangerous, techno-utopian dream

Experts have increasingly warned against manipulating Earth’s natural systems 

Record greenhouse gas emissions: Time running out, warns UN

Urgent need to slash carbon dioxide emissions, says World Meteorological Organization

Davos 2023: UN chief urges credible net-zero pledges; slams ‘Big Oil’ firms

Guterres compared fossil fuel sector to the cigarette industry in the 1970s, where businesses were aware of the harmful health impact

Guar mine

Farmers in Rajasthan make big bucks as shale gas rush boosts demand for little-known cluster bean

Poison present

Greenpeace and Bhopal disaster survivors transported toxic waste from the Bhopal disaster site to Dow Chemical Co's largest European operation, …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 28, 2020)

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

Two cyclones and a gas leak: Journey of migrants between urban precariousness and ravaged villages

A report narrates the story of three migrants from Assam and West Bengal who have been uprooted from their hometowns by extreme climate events or …

Somewhere over the rainbow… climate impact is visible

India, 5 African countries may see a lot more rainbow days due to increased precipitation, finds study  

Ludhiana: Ineffective manhole cleanup, chemicals disposed in sewers emerge as theories for Giaspura tragedy

Steps to be taken in the event of an industrial accident or to gauge its environmental impact lacking, say experts

Corporate net zero promises found to be insufficient and relying on cheap offsets

25 of the world’s largest companies only commit to reduce emissions by 40% on average, not 100% as suggested by the terms ‘net zero&…

Climate crisis: Way forward for dairy giants in India

Methane from animal waste contribute to 75% of total greenhouse emissions from the dairy sector

Richest 1% emit twice as much carbon as poorest 50%: Oxfam report

The richest 10% accounted for 46% of emissions growth; the poorest 50% accounted for 6%  

Is time ticking for coal

Business-as-usual will not work to combat climate crisis. Difficult targets must be set to reduce carbon emissions

Enhanced food security and soil biodiversity: A climate-positive approach

Conservation of soil biodiversity, soil organic carbon through sustainable farming practices should be deemed essential to improve agricultural …

Climate crisis continues unabated: United in science, but are we united in action?

While emissions fell during the peak of the pandemic confinement measures, they have already mostly recovered to within 5% of the same period in …