Resource war India after 2020

If the developing world today is the locus of climate change  mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …

Bust the mills

Chile

Enzymes for environment

Reducing chlorine use in paper industry

Bacteria from rotten pomegranade can help produce cellulose

Bacterial strain from rotten pomegranate promises to help produce bacterial cellulose not just on a large scale but 4 times cheaper than made …

Environmental governance in India pushes industries to face stricter pollution norms

The last one year of environmental regulation in India has shown many improvements. But a lot remains to be done

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 21, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Common platform

An environmental rating project provides a meeting ground for the Indian pulp and paper sector

The big idea for change: bamboo as grass

Divide and dump waste

Grasim unit pulled up

Compensation for pollution victims urged

Profitable in every way

Scientists develop method to use jute for making paper pulp

Why farmers are abandoning totapuri mango

The price of the totapuri mango has crashed due to low demand for its pulp, leaving farmers to dump produce on roads

Things fall apart: why do the ecosystems we depend on collapse?

From fisheries to forestry, there's a pattern to collapsing ecosystems and industries. If we can predict them, maybe we can avoid the damage.

Aiding agenda

When bloom spells doom

Bamboo flowering in Orissa without fresh procurement threatens to drive plant to extinction

News snippets

Effluent industry’s role in clean energy: Exploring India’s first paper mill waste to compressed biogas facility

It is crucial that states with significant potential promptly implement bioenergy policies and state-level renewable energy agencies vigorously …

India's biggest tomato district surrenders to cheap Chinese pulp

Farmers of Chittoor and nearby areas in Andhra Pradesh are struggling to get minimum returns from the crop

Letters

In Court

Letters

Foresters warned

This paper mill in Punjab is causing cancer, loss of vision

Residents allege that the Kuantum pulp and paper mill in Saila Khurd, the only industry in the block for 30 years, is responsible for their …

Greening the industry

The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. Participants laud CSE efforts …