Microplastics help viruses survive longer in water, remain infectious: Study

The result remained the same in every wastewater treatment scenario

Why ozonization to treat drinking water can be dangerous

No more dumping

Capital's hospitality industry will have to manage its waste

Can we declare ourselves ODF, without managing the collected excreta?

A lowdown on how to clean India and keep it that way

Curfew in Kashmir, poor infrastructure put cancer patients at greater risk

When scheduled therapies are skipped, the treatment cycle of cancer patients gets upset

No more filth

A wastewater treatment system promises to rid Indian cities of disease and pollution

Distilled waste

A way to detoxify distillery wastes

Milk waste

A new filter reduces effluents from diary industries and also produces biogass

Green move

Or political manoeuvre?

Political vendetta? Minister, experts dispute findings of central survey on cleanliness in Bengal cities

The cities of the state, ranked at the bottom in the survey, were found to have slipped on multiple fronts

How an environmental engineer used faecal sludge management to make his Telangana town clean

Faecal sludge and septage management could be an opportunity to re-consider future strategies regarding treatment of faecal waste

Bitter sweet: Petha production in Agra leaves behind waste and pollution

CSE study recommends that Agra must develop a number of strategies to reduce the impact of petha-making units on its environment and …

Insubstantial collaboration with stakeholders in plastic waste management in Nepal: Study

Only 3% municipalities have worked or plan to work with companies and industries that use or produce plastic waste 

Fund at your own risk: Those who crowdfund for helping others get treatment, are vulnerable to fraud

The government must urgently introduce policies to regulate and monitor crowdfunding done for medical emergency treatment

"Centralised wastewater treatment does not work"

The Centre For Scientific Research Trust (CSR), Auroville, Pondicherry has pioneered the decentralised wastewater treatment system in India. …

Telemedicine useful for HIV treatment: Study

Anti-retroviral therapy through telemedicine is better than conventional method in terms of average cost, treatment compliance, follow up visit …

New membrane to help remove oil, dyes from industrial waste water

The membrane, developed by team from IIT-G, using graphene oxide, cotton fibre and dopamine removed around 98 per cent of oil from the water

By book or by crook..

... has been the motto of an erring plant in Karnataka. But recently, the local fisherfolk scored a victory by forcing it to agree to install an …

From water to water

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2020)

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

Gutter will sparkle

Ludhiana is going all out to clean up Buddha Nallah, the sole receptacle of its industrial filth

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa — what went wrong

COVID-19 pandemic, associated lockdowns have set back TB control programmes worldwide

Water crisis in South Africa: Damning report finds 46% contamination, 67% of treatment works near to breaking down

Monitoring and compliance were severely deficient, report shows

2022 too short, too far: Initial steps taken on tackling waste; long way to go still

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

Explained: The cancer therapy that got two immunologists a Nobel

The immunologists’ immune checkpoint therapy has revolutionised cancer treatment