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African countries need to clean up their act on industrial pollution

Enforcement of water and environmental laws must be in place to protect the environment

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 9, 2024)

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

Relocation pangs

Shifting of industries to Bawana will affect groundwater reserves

Tourist revulsion

Steeped in pollution, Ranchi lake is no more a crowd-puller

South Asia

Muscle power

All you need is an eye

New monitoring index gives better understanding of a river’s health

India Elects: Will water issues impact results?

Within a week, we will know whether the "No Water No Votes" campaign influenced results

How to make invisible groundwater visible

Sustainable vision is key to balancing current needs and future demands

Rains apart, blame the dams for Maharashtra, Karnataka floods: Report

Poor management of dams exacerbate floods, instead of mitigating them, it adds

Reservoirs across India filling up as country receives good rains

However, 14 out of the 123 reservoirs monitored by the CWC are 100% full

To beat water shortage, these youths in Kinnaur’s cold desert created artificial glacier by watching YouTube videos

Himachal Pradesh is already showing signs of drought-like situation, with hardly any snow or rain this winter

New method for efficient removal of heavy metals from water

Heavy metal pollution of water is a serious concern for India

Where does plastic pollution go when it enters the ocean?

It’s estimated that one in three fish eaten by humans contains microplasts

How a community came together to overcome the ODF challenge in Rajasthan's Thar desert

Learn how Churu built toilets much before the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission

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

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

India becomes open-defecation free but many challenges ahead

The challenge now will be mainly be to sustain India's open-defecation free status

Simply put: ODF India

Modi declares India ODF

Sustaining the status the next big challenge

In the fishing industry, gear recycling is finally catching on

Old fishing nets clutter harbors and kill sea life. But entrepreneurs are changing that

Fight against pollution may witness a paradigm shift

Very soon the emissions from domestic sewage may out run the pollution from fertilisers

2015 in toons

Rightful dues

Brushing aside environmental costs