Delayed paddy plantation has cascading effect on north India’s air pollution: Harvard University
Delhi and other parts of the region can experience lesser pollution if certain districts of Punjab do not delay planting paddy, say researchers
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 1, 2022)
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 (September 8, 2022)
Can gasification be the solution to crop burning?
Biomass gasification can not only prevent air pollution from burning crop residues, but also increase farmers’ income and manage municipal …
Treated sewage for Gurgaon projects
Haryana government makes treated sewage available to developers affected by court moratorium on groundwater extraction
Askew
As Parliament mulls the Seeds Bill 2004, there is intense opposition to it. It's likely the government will redraft it. sopan joshi and sourav …
NGT orders shut 15 chemical industrial units in Haryana for flouting norms
Experts express concern, point at state pollution control board for poor implementation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2024)
Why was post-Diwali air quality better this year?
Wind speed, warmer temperatures helped disperse pollutants
Diwali pollution: Delhi air quality to be in ‘poor’ & ‘very poor’ categories today, tomorrow
Fire count due to stubble burning low over northwest Delhi as on October 23
What will Supreme Court judgement on Aravalli mean for forest conservation?
Changes to conservation rules may be fast tracked, say activists
Policy Backfires
Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish
Car-free Gurgaon, really?
It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city
Hope for vultures
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 14, 2024)
Reporter’s diary amid COVID-19: Reaching home
Down To Earth’s Vivek Mishra has walked from Delhi to Shravasti in Uttar Pradesh to capture the plight of workers returning home after …
On Constitution Day, police use tear gas, water cannon on farmers
While many farmer leaders were detained November 24 and 25 and taken into preventive custody, others were detained November 26 too
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2023)
When the car drives you: Speed as hierarchy and privilege
What remains of the public if at their best of expressing their disagreement, their gatherings are called “traffic jams”?
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 7, 2023)
How 3-pond systems helped villagers double yield, save lakhs
A system of three ponds to recycle grey water from the village has helped farmers and panchayats save lakhs of rupees
Swachh Bharat Mission: Haryana still defiant
The claim of an ODF-free Haryana flies in the face of cases of class division, dysfunctional toilets and administrative inaction
Hypertension in Dhankot
Residents from Dhankot village, Haryana, believe that chronic alcohol abuse among men is stressing out families and therefore leading to …
Subterranean subterfuge
Thousands of industrial units in parts of Haryana are clandestinely discarding untreated effluents into aquifers, irreversibly damaging groundwater.
Lethal find
Scientists find high arsenic content in Haryana's groundwater