Grave yards

Ship-breaking industry, once banned in Bangladesh for violating environment and safety norms, is back in business

What goes down must come up

It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down To …

Science and Technology - Briefs

Udipi farmers' land taken over for thermal power plant

Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

We created a new material from orange peel that can clean up mercury pollution: researchers

When researchers combined two industrial waste products, they created a material that could clean up mercury

Effluents from Bhilwara textile units flow unabated

Wasted wealth

Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure

Mango resistance

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s mango belt are clear they will not allow Lucknow’s solid waste facility on their dashehari land

Heavy metals in household, industrial waste help spread drug resistance

Researchers have identified exposure to cadmium a reason for typhoid causing Salmonella becoming resistant to antibiotics

Sweets foiled by silver

A toxic conduit into the body

Is sewage farming safe?

Madhya Pradesh's order to destroy crops cultivated using sewage has triggered a debate over the age old practice of using wastewater for irrigation

Groundwater contamination around Union Carbide factory is now officially confirmed

Indian Institute of Toxicology Research says the contaminant levels are not a public health concern because drinking water is supplied by …

Subterranean Leak

25 years after the gas leak, another tragedy is unfolding in Bhopal. CSE tests reveal the water and soil in and around the Union Carbide factory …

New Battery Waste Management Rules make producers accountable for recycling

But they need to be more holistic in design to enable sustainability standards 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 17, 2020)

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

HUL and mercury-exposed workers in Kodaikanal reach an out-of-court settlement

The settlement is historic as families of 591 workers have opted for an ex-gratia payment by the company for all that they endured while getting …

Patronising dirty technology

Delhi municipality constructs yet another waste-to-energy plant at Ghazipur

Watch before you eat

Air pollution contributes to heavy metals in vegetables

Clean energy fund to be used for cleaning 12 toxic dump sites

States asked to bear 60 per cent cost

Home truths

What's happening inside disposal units?

More cities critically polluted

Tighter norms make air we breathe more poisonous

Double Standards

Safety regulations are for imported toys only  

Molting seals add mercury to seawater, reveals study

Mercury, the most toxic metal, is easily absorbed and accumulated in marine organisms