Kerala faces floods for third consecutive year
Extremely heavy rain forecast in Idukki, Palakkad, Thrissur and Wayanad districts for the next two days
Managing water resources key for Tanzania’s sanitation fight
Part 2: Funding biggest bottleneck for carrying out plans; CSE team finds greywater mismanagement too
World Cities Day: How humans and robots can co-exist in cities
Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities but create more challenges for policymakers
Long road home: Uttarakhand increasingly declares villages disaster-prone
While many are fighting relocation, those who shift face conflicts with host villages over resources like water and grazing land. Is relocation …
As told to Parliament (April 3, 2023): Over Rs 7,400 crore disbursed in 2022-23 for natural gas infrastructure
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Futile deadlines: Afforestation drive in 5 states along Ganga is over with just 22% of target being met
Experts have questioned as to whether the Ganga catchment area is really available for afforestation
Algal blooms of aquatic habitats can be a sign of its health
Maintaining optimum levels of algal biodiversity is crucial for sustaining ecosystem function
Droughts bring disease: Here are 4 ways they do it
Prolonged dry spells, particularly in semi-arid and arid regions, may have serious impacts, particularly if people aren’t prepared
Climate change may worsen cholera crisis in Africa: WHO
Extreme weather events like major floods and even droughts may be driving the health crisis; Malawi facing the worst ever crisis
James Webb gets a close look at the Red Planet for the first time
Perseverance rover collects key rock samples, while Mars shows signatures of water, carbon dioxide in atmosphere
An Arunachal Pradesh town has swapped its water pollution problem for air pollution
Residents take to burning waste after orders to not dump it in Kameng river; facility to handle waste incomplete due to lack of funds
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 23, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Megadrought in Chile: Both natural climate factors, human-induced global warming to blame
A quarter of reduction of rainfall a direct result of sea-surface warming
NASA confirms water on moon’s sunlit surface: What does it mean for lunar science
Water distributed across surface of the moon; can help understand how the solar system evolved
Clean public toilets: A matter of national honour
A survey by the Union housing ministry showed that 55% of public washrooms were either dirty or completely unusable in Delhi
What COVID-19 means for watershed management in India
Non-implementation of watershed activities may lead to poor availability and accessibility of water for domestic, agricultural needs
Desertification setting in across a quarter of India
Another 30% of the county’s land is undergoing degradation. What does this mean for the country where more than 60% peopel depends on …
Ayodhya airport expansion and discharge of water from Coca-Cola factory put villagers in a fix
Villages drowning after rains due to airport expansion while polluted water destroying fields, allege locals
North India Deluge 2023: Yamuna breaches evacuation mark in Delhi; expert calls flood policy ‘absolute failure’
The Yamuna inundates parts of Delhi even with very little rain as it is silted and is not dredged, according to Gourishankar Ghosh
African cities and climate change: The real debate is who should pay to fix the problem
Re-balancing the carbon equation so African cities urbanise sustainably requires immediate and major investments in infrastructure
Old ‘Temples of Modern India’: Can India decommission ageing dams it has been warned about?
Dams have affected new ways of land use and life so much that many societies cannot think of a life beyond them anymore
Vembanad, Ashtamudi: NGT slaps Rs 10 crore on Kerala for its failure to protect Ramsar sites
The penalty is levied per the ‘polluter pays principle’, the tribunal noted
Climate-resilient water, sanitation & hygiene policies need of hour to meet global agenda of 2030
The 10 African countries most water-insecure & climate-impacted need immediate attention
How MGNREGA is promoting climate-smart villages
The works include constructing percolation tanks, households living in the catchment area for construction of check dams, afforestation, contour&…
Blowout at Oil India well threatens national park in upper Assam
Condensate from the blowout has covered the water bodies, trees and tea plants near Dibru-Saikhowa National Park