Spiralling Temperature: Annual Warming Trends in India
Annual mean temperature in India has rapidly increased since 1995. At this rate of increase, it will breach the 1.5°C mark within the next …
Climate Talkies
In 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the agreement to combat climate change was whittled down and targets were removed. All this was done to bring the US on …
Importance of staying in the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement mandates that developed countries would continue to take lead in reduction of greenhouse gases
First Food Recipe: Tamil Karuveppilai Podi or curry leaves powder with rice
Curry leaves are more than just a common seasoning. This leaf is a storehouse of carbohydrates, fibre, calcium, phosphorous, iron, vitamin C, …
State of India's Environment 2017 In Figures (eBook)
State of India's Environment 2017 In Figures is India's first and only e-book that not only communicates environmental issues through facts and …
Minimise waste, save wealth
Questions have been raised about methodology adopted in Swachh Survekshan Report 2017. Instead of encouraging sustainable practices like …
Informal consultations begin on transparency framework under Paris Agreement
India stressed that the transparency framework should be based on the existing one within the Kyoto Protocol
Clean your backyard
Urban India is now the world's third largest garbage generator. But the amount of waste generated is not as much of an issue as the fact that …
Yemen's irrigation system: invisible victim of the war
Water infrastructure has been hit by war in Yemen's food-basket, affecting farmer income and food security
Convenience in denial
Even as the impacts of extreme weather events become more visible, nearly half the world's population believes that climate change is not a very …
How to reduce the use of Air Conditioners: Ep4 New Vastu with Ashok B Lall
When air is hot and humid, our natural reaction is to turn on the air conditioner. ACs are a necessary evil that guzzle electricity produced by …
Five States: Too many concerns, too few commitments
The 2017 Assembly elections across five states—Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur-have brought to the surface the …
Environment Reader for Universities
The book is totally based on the UGC syllabus for environmental studies for undergraduates; and it comes to you from CSE, an NGO whose primary …
Living Skeletons
While prolonged drought and untimely floods destroyed crops, the emerging food crisis has often become a full-scale humanitarian disaster due to …
Dirty air and mortality: the insidious link
Exposure to PM2.5 accounted for about 4.2 million deaths from heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, chronic lung disease and respiratory …
Engulfed in Toxins: Delhi Citizens fight against Okhla Waste to Energy Plant
Since 2009, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar, a residential colony in Delhi, have been fighting against a waste-to-energy plant that uses dirty …
Finding a way through prolonged haze and policy maze
As cities around the world saw smog-ridden days and unabated carbon emission in 2016, Down To Earth looks into the scale of problem and solutions …
Living Dead
More than three decades after the Bhopal gas leak killed a few thousand people and affected about 500,000 others, the struggle continues for …
Why the US should quit the Paris Agreement
Trump's presidency would be extremely detrimental to the Agreement and destroy the climate convention negotiated over the past 25 years
Climate Catastrophe and Resilience
About 11,000 extreme weather events killed more than 528,000 people and caused economic losses of around US$ 3.08 trillion between 1996 and 2015. …
Seeds of green culture
from shoes made of old tyres in Ghana to roads built from recycled plastic in Kenya, 20 environment friendly start-ups from developing countries …
The return of Avian Flu
Bird flu returned to haunt India, only a month after the country was declared free from avian influenza (H5N1) on September 5, 2016
Auto-makers asked to give details of pollution levels in India
Road Transport ministry in a bid to curb vehicular pollution has asked auto manufacturers to furnish all the details of air pollutants as well as …
23 countries just got energy efficiency report cards - and they're almost all flunking
The most valuable tool we have to meet the world’s growing energy demand while reducing greenhouse gas production could be figuring out how …
