Food security: Climate change is affecting the seeds that India depends on

An increase in the number of days with extreme temperatures or rain has caused a decline in the quality and size of seeds across India

Wheat production to be record high despite unseasonal rains: Officials

Back-to-back western disturbances have enriched the soil moisture in the past two weeks, say scientist

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 22, 2022)

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

Why we may have missed the bus on ensuring paddy co-firing in Delhi-NCR coal plants this year

Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh need to identify the major aggregators in their respective states and ensure allocation of suitable land and …

Paper tiger? Punjab Pollution Control Board not able to recover environmental fines imposed in last 2 years

Punjab government’s move is a mockery of the law, at a time when environmental pollution is becoming deadly and dangerous

How paddy affects: Groundwater table in this Karnal village is now at 1,000 feet

Ardana farmers do not want to grow any other crops besides wheat and paddy since the government offers MSP only on them

Managing greywater: A Haryana village shows the way

Pond-based greywater treatment systems in Kurak Jagir village in Karnal district, Haryana, absorb greywater 

Rooftop solar generation: Why Delhi government schools fare better than others

Delhi government has set up rooftop solar in its 150 schools; similar projects in Rajasthan and Haryana are yet to take off  

Future shock: The leaning towers of Najafgarh Jheel

Why construction activity around the southwest Delhi water body is a recipe for disaster  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 22, 2023)

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

Reversal of gains: Haryana, a state with historically poor sex ratio, is fast losing its hard-won gains in recent years

Latest sex ratio numbers, accessed by DTE through the Right to Information Act suggested the situation has again started to worsen in …

Short-duration paddy cultivation can help solve Punjab and Haryana’s stubble burning problem

Along with in situ incorporation of stubble into soil is an effective solution for both air pollution and groundwater conservation

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 13, 2023)

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 (October 9, 2023)

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

Sapling solidarity: Erratic monsoon has led to Haryana, Punjab farmers helping each other; here is how

Cultivators in flood-hit villages of the states have received free supply of paddy saplings from their counterparts in safer areas to tide over …

A ‘dead’ Ghaggar and its tributaries wrought havoc in Haryana early July; here is how

Ghaggar, Tangri, Markanda and others are considered dead rivers in the state and heavily encraoched upon; this monsoon, they reclaimed their …

Our study shows growing zone of active tectonic deformation in northern Haryana plains south of Himalayas

Piedmont zone between Ghaggar and Yamuna river basins and found signs of an active tectonic deformation

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 20, 2023)

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 (February 13, 2023)

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

Leave control, even effective pollution monitoring not happening at Delhi-NCR’s power plants: CSE

Make continuous emission monitoring system data public for air quality betterment CSE study emphasises

Delhi smog conditions improve; air quality in UP, Haryana still grim

There is nothing to be happy about the improvement in Delhi’s air quality since pollutant levels have not gone down yet, according to experts

Experts seek reassessment of Power Finance Corp’s annual discoms rating

The credit rating exercise conducted by Power Finance Corp since July 2012 has not made much of a difference on the ground, according to experts

Last straw to stubble burning

Straw can be converted into fuel for use in vehicles. It can also replace coal in old power plants, reducing …

Diwali amid COVID-19: Delhi air quality deteriorates as evening progresses

It could hit emergency levels if there is increased emission from firecrackers

May heat in March shrivels wheat: Centre to revise procurement norms

The Punjab government April 12 appealed to the central government to allow relaxation in the norms of shrivelled grains without any value cut, …