How smart is a smart city?

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 31, 2020)

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

I am green by choice , not by chance

Probably the first chief minister of Delhi to have taken a keen interest in the environment, Shiela Dixit has got a mixed response for her …

Lock & hold

The jallikattu bull row in Tamil Nadu provokes the law v culture debate

A flood without rain

Accelerated melting of glaciers floods Bhakra Nangal dam

I really have no problem with the World Bank

It's emergency

No food

Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Can COVID-19 inspire a new way of planning African cities?

Colonial use of planning for cultural and structural isolation, as well as for socio-economic and spatial segregation, limited Africa’s …

COVID-19: New UN alliance to stave off ‘catastrophic food crisis’

Proposed by Italy and led by Food and Agriculture Organization, the alliance aims to increase resilience of agricultural food systems, ensure …

2022 too short, too far: How food systems evolved for the hungry

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Delhi government to set up Rs 10.3 crore water recycling plant in Bawana

At present, Bawana water treatment plant lacks a recycling plant leading to acute wastage of water  

UN Committee for World Food Security endorses voluntary guidelines to end hunger

The guidelines will contribute to realisation of global goals on  hunger and nutrition even as more than 3 billion people do not have access …

Curse of excess

Once a parched city, Jodhpur is today facing a deluge

Letters

Centre cuts foodgrain supply for Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana

Clean(er) cooking in India: Country should explore e-cooking but address these challenges before switching

Lack of a reliable power supply is a major challenge to e-cooking adoption

India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture

South Asia

Tall claim, short supply

Chhattisgarh ration shops have no ration

No taker for 43-year-old Save Grain campaign

Drought unleashes starvation

Officials admit to 10 deaths in Jharkhand's backward district, actual number might be 20