India witnessed worst levels of human-induced air pollution during 2018-2021: Study

Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Chennai recorded huge fluctuations in terms of air pollution

Biomass pellets: CPCB’s revised grants highly inadequate to close demand-supply gap

CPCB has underestimated the cost of setting up a pellet manufacturing unit, say experts

Antimicrobial resistance: India needs waste management, process control to prevent antibiotic pollution

Manufacturing process needs control measures; 43% of world’s rivers contaminated with active pharmaceutical ingredients

World Environmental Health Day: Green issues need to be actively taught in schools, universities

Supreme Court in 1991 had directed environment be taught compulsorily at every level of education

Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR high after Diwali

Despite cracker ban, the 24-hour average level of PM2.5 during Diwali and the morning after has been 397 mg per cubic metre, which is 6.6 times …

Pet coke conundrum

We are buying the world’s dirtiest fuel as if we have no worries of air pollution. This needs to change

Supreme Court extends big diesel vehicle ban

The court has asked Delhi Government’s EPCA to prepare a detailed plan for all the vehicle owners to pay compensation to minimise health risks

Green levy on trucks entering Delhi to stay, says Supreme Court

The contractor responsible for toll collection had approached the apex court earlier this week expressing its reluctance to …

Dry cleaning Hussainsagar

Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing but a harebrained plan

'Childhood cancers doubled in Delhi in 25 years, when city's air quality also became toxic'

Manas Ranjan Ray, former assistant director & head, department of experimental haematology, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, …

2023 in a blink: DTE revealed the true extent of air pollution on India’s children this year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2023  

Groundwater in 12 Indian states found to be contaminated with uranium

Punjab is the worst-affected state with Haryana being the second 

Is show cause notice sufficient to drive compliance in industrial units?

The current regulatory regime is delaying compliance by a decade

Simply Put: Residents come together to clean Tangra lake

Whose waste is it?

Producers are shifting their plastic recovery responsibility to other companies

Haryana has gone deaf

Experience of cycling on car free day in Gurgaon

Candour in the air

Caviar dreams

Foundries shun cleaner technology

A modified furnace reduces coke consumption and pollution, resulting in considerable savings.

Pollution in Punjab

Mote monitor

A new instrument to detect tiny polluting particles that vehicles emit

AN END TO BLASTS

Friends for a cause

Strict regulations