DTE Coverage: Just transition in petrochemicals
Down To Earth reports from Gujarat's Bharuch district
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 21, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
Erythraean Sea: Why Rubymar’s sinking in the southern Red could be an environmental catastrophe
The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden support a rich biological diversity with a distinct high proportion of endemic species, according to the UNEP
Gassed: How air pollution is causing greater loss of healthy life years in children compared to older people
Air pollution is one of the biggest reasons for child mortality in India. From womb to birth to adolescence, murky air with heavy dose of PM2.5 …
UNEA-6 delegates want more action on plastics, Paris Agreement
Some countries complained final Ministerial Declaration doesn't explicitly call for expedited reaching of the much anticipated legally …
UNEA-6: Reuse should be central component of legally binding treaty on plastics, say speakers
Panelists at side event held on first day of meet hope an agreement is reached quickly
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 23, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Fifteen non-profits take fresh legal action against Europe’s biggest plastics project
This marks a new phase in the over three-year long legal battle against INEOS’ ‘Project One’, a €3 billion plastic project …
5% rise in India’s GHG emissions since 2016, driven by energy & industrial sectors
Around 75% of overall greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 came from energy sector, while the industrial sector contributed to 8%
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 19, 2024)
Protect migratory marine species from fish aggregating devices, pollution: COP14 shares guidelines
Draft decisions acknowledge concerns regarding impact on marine, aquatic life due to human disturbances
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 27, 2024)
Water every other day: Bengaluru is drying up & destruction of lakes is the reason
City is now dependent on Krishna Raja Sagara reservoir, which received only 75% of its usual inflow last due to poor rainfall in River Cauvery …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2024)
As told to Parliament (February 5, 2024): Over 400 MLD industrial effluents discharged into Ganga and Yamuna daily
All that was discussed in the House through the day
‘For Mumbai pollution, construction dust, unfavourable meteorology obvious culprits but can't rule out climate change’
IIT Bombay environmental scientist Abhishek Chakraborty on how warming may have caused smog & why bettter planning is needed for policymaking
75% of Kolkata’s groundwater is now brackish due to over-extraction: Study
Impact more in south Kolkata as innumerable new multi-storied buildings there run on groundwater
Smog towers ineffective, at least 40,000 needed in Delhi to combat toxic air: DPCC tells NGT
Towers can reduce particulate pollution by 12% in 200 metre radius; DPCC suggests turning buildings into air pollution control museums
When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco’s PR playbook
Industry-funded studies successfully muddied the waters and stalled further federal investigations or regulations addressing gas stove safety
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 25, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 14, 2023)
Delhi, your deadly skies are speeding up a silent pandemic — AMR
Every 10% rise in the concentration of PM2.5 was linked with a 1.1 per cent global increase in antibiotic resistance and 43,654 deaths from …
Globally, 21 million tonnes of plastics leaked into environment last year: OECD
Report released two days before Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution for international treaty on plastics
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2023)
COVID-19: India reports 14 new cases and 152 active cases on November 10
India recorded the highest number of deaths (1,260) globally from September 25-October 22, 2023, primarily due to retrospective adjustment, …