Opportunity waste

A senior technical manager says there is a lot of money to be made in management of industrial waste

Bangalore lakes get a refill

While most of Bangalore is anxious to see the heavens open, the city's Lake Development Authority must be thanking its lucky stars that the …

Book review: Garbage Wars: The Struggle For Environmental Justice By David Naguib Pellow

Sociologist David Naguib Pellow has come out with an engrossing account of Chicago from the perspective of what surrounds us all: garbage. It is …

West Bengal's wetlands under threat

Tourism deal

Coliform will count

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 12, 2024)

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

Investing in ending TB: WHO study shows potential benefit of $39 for every dollar spent in screening, prevention

Released modelling study for Brazil, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on March 24

‘Sewage treatment plant near Rushikulya will spell doom for Olive Ridleys’

The construction of the proposed plant will also violate Coastal Regulation Zone norms

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Holy mess

The Supreme Court pulls up the Orissa government for pollution in Puri

Reeds to the rescue

An ecofriendly way of treating polluted wastewater holds promise for rural India

Do the dirty on

Biotoilets fail to save Dal lake from pollution due to official apathy

Unclean barter

Trading in water pollution proposed

Going slow

Solar treatment

Disinfects medical waste in an ecofriendly way

Holy manure

Temple offerings in Mumbai make for good compost

Tamarind powder to treat wastewater

Iron out arsenic

Don’t pee in pool

It reacts with disinfectants, can cause diseases including cancer

Coating is better than cure

A new way to filter polluting nano-particles out of the water  

The real magic beans

Drumstick seeds can clarify water up to 99.5 per cent

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 30, 2019)

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

Paradigm shift in transborder plastic waste trade

Agreement reached at 14th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention to make global trade in plastic scrap more transparent and better regulated

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 29, 2019)

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