GOBAR-Dhan: CSE’s roadmap can address the challenges faced by Bio-CNG in India
CSE worked closely with the Ministry of Jal Shakti & identified the opportunities that can be tapped to realise the potential of organic …
Local authorities in Delhi can use imaginative by-laws to clean up the city
Households must be rewarded on segregating waste and collectors, both formal and informal, should be trained
Wasted wealth
Organic composting is filthy business. Facilities flout norms, produce poor quality manure
Mired in sewage
Temple town Guruvayur adamant on dumping its sewage in backwater villages despite stringent laws, opposition
Cry of a river
A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame
Air pollution killed 116,000 Indian kids within a month of birth in 2019
Household air pollution accounted for 64% of all neo-natal deaths attributable to air pollution
New technique developed to make biodiesel cleaner
Scientists have developed a cost-effective strategy to convert crude glycerol, a by-product of manufacturing biodiesel, into a green fuel
Lack of energy access affecting women’s prosperity in India
A recent report shows how energy requirement of women differ in various states and in different occupations and how limiting the current scenarios are
Nearly 3 billion people risk ill health and death from household pollution: Study
Ill effects on health include respiratory tract infections, pneumonia, asthma, lung cancer and other ailments
Fuelling a crisis
A recent, innocuous check-and-tally exercise by the Delhi administration unearthed a giant racket diverting to the transport sector heavily-…
Budget 2023-24: Climate goals? Renewable energy ministry gets just over 2% of total allocation
MNRE budget is equivalent to just 26% of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas’s allocation
Toxic ignorance: Most Indian cities way off segregating domestic hazardous waste
In absence of robust framework and infrastructure, segregation of domestic hazardous waste remains a distant dream for most Indian cities
CAG report shows how Karnataka's solid waste management is in disarray
Faultlines at urban bodies: Lack of segregation, no identification of dump sites, absence of GPS
Why a landfill and waste-to-energy plant in Delhi Ridge is a bad idea
A recent SC order approving a recommendation to set up a landfill and a Waste-to-Energy plant in Delhi Ridge is an ill-thought move
False predictions
For years, energy experts and foresters have believed that the poor will eat away the forests of the developing world like locusts in order to …
COVID-19: Hits & misses of Centre’s advisory on water supply, sanitation
A review of MoHUA April, 2020 advisory on safe management of water supply and sanitation
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 3, 2019)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
How does the Budget score on energy front?
The government has approved Rs 2,000 crore as initial outlay for providing LPG connections to poor women
A burning question
Waste-to-energy plants are being touted as a wonder solution for garbage management. But how feasible is this option?
India’s deepening farm crisis: 76% farmers want to give up farming, shows study
Benefits of government schemes and policies go to big farmers, shows survey undertaken by CSDS on behalf of farmers’ association
Polls won, waivers announced, but govt has no data on farmer suicides
The last NCRB report published in 2016 said a farmer committed suicide every hour in the country
Contours of inequality
Global estimates of the unmet energy needs in India have been available for some time. These only indicate whether the shoe pinches, if at all. …
We need our slaves
India tops the list of countries with huge numbers of modern slaves. But there is little outrage or concern here over what is an everyday reality
High time to address occupational hazards of waste pickers
Informal waste sector in India carry out most labour-intensive and least rewarding job; most work and live in hazardous conditions with no …
Waste smart cities
A survey by the Centre for Science and Environment shows how Indian cities are turning over a new leaf in solid waste management