Smooth sailing by cleaning up fumes
Controlling the polluting sulphur emissions of ships has become imperative after recent research has proved that they are as harmful as the …
Real estate on water
Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …
The political economy of defecation
This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India's richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The …
No concrete plans
The Centre for Science and Environment's Green Rating Project team has rated the cement industry. Its findings uncovered some surprises. The …
Orphans of the river
Riverine fisherfolk, arguably the oldest among traders, are being sold down the river. An unholy synergy of poisoned rivers, government apathy …
The small big polluter
Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective …
United Colours of Industry
Of all dyes produced across the world, 11 per cent goes out as effluents. 2 per cent from manufacturing and as much as 9 per cent from colouring. …
Dirty move
The move to exempt certain categories of industry from a public hearing is anything but laudable
Sewage Outpour
When prashant krishnan, vinita garg, aditya jha, gurpreet singh and neeraj kumar set out to map Mayapuri's drainage,they had no inkling that new …
Ban lifted on fishing in Sutlej
Discharge of effluents into the river had caused large-scale fish deaths, leading to the curbs
Fishy deaths
The mystery of large-scale fish fatalities in the Yamuna near Agra and the conflicting official theoriesA report by Prabhanjan Verma
Gomti river is almost dead
Recently the banks of river Gomti in Lucknow were unusually abuzz. Some people were struggling to wade through the 'sewage-enriched' river to …
Kiln Eco-
Brickmaking is a profit-driven enterprise. At one level, it produces the basis of the built-up world. But what of the hidden -- ecological and …
Rivers(e) effect
The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by …
Pollution Pvt. Ltd.
A polluting industrial unit in Gujarat continues to operate, despite the state Pollution Control Board issuing notices to shut it down
Printers' devil
The Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court has ordered the relocation of Sanganer's polluting dyeing and printing units within a year. Failure …
Neither voluntary nor compliant
India's first ever Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection, unveiled amid much hype on March 13 in New Delhi, has turned …
Damodar - Ten years after
How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …
Have technology, will survive
A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry
Mere plans
Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside
Billowing Rage
The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.
By hook, crook or vision
Profits and a cleaner environment can sometimes complement each other. But Indian companies are still mired in poison. They must now look for a …
Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment