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Waste

CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Where does India stand in the global plastic treaty talks? An explainer

New Delhi’s position is largely unchanged from INC-3 in Nairobi, although it has introduced some new arguments; it is also trying to reinvent the concept of the “life cycle of plastic” in the negotiating arena

NEWS AND VIEWS

Environment

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and …

Governance

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 25, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high …

Climate Change

Key takeaways from the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings 2024

The two Bretton Woods Institutions need to build momentum to deliver money for climate finance

Waste

CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Just transition and Global Plastic Treaty — An inclusive journey towards circularity?

We must recognise that recycling alone cannot provide a comprehensive solution, despite the fact that it is critical to combating plastic pollution. Photo: iStock

Waste pickers and concept of just transition have gained attention during process of …

Health

24x7 makeshift clinics, testing food, water at gatherings: How Karnataka is trying prevent cholera outbreak amid rising heat

24x7 makeshift clinics, testing food, water at large events: How Karnataka is trying prevent a cholera outbreak amid rising heat

State reported 33 cases of cholera this year, most in April; health department to conduct …

Governance

Environment in elections: Andhra’s Rayalaseema battling drought conditions for 4 years, but ignored in poll manifestos

Ananthapuramu is the district most affected by drought and has 83.67% of its cultivated area relying on rainfed agriculture. File photo: CSE

87 Mandals in four districts classified as ‘severely affected’ areas with less …

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Our laser technique can tell apart elephant and mammoth ivory – here’s how it may disrupt the ivory trade

Annually, over 20,000 elephants are poached for ivory, primarily in Africa

Science & Technology

DNA analysis reveals how ancient nomads who disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago lived

Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived

Avar societies meticulously preserved an ancestral memory

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Videos

Climate Change

General Elections 2024: Elections in the time of heatwaves

The Election Commission of India has made preparations to ensure voter safety and accessibility amid the prediction of blistering heatwaves

Waste

World Earth Day 2024: Urgent need to stop marine plastic pollution

Agriculture

Wheat worries: Standing guard over future pandemics

Environment

After 8 years, IMD forecasts above normal rainfall

Climate Change

Extreme weather events in Mumbai and Dubai

Health

Whooping cough outbreak reported around the world

Cartoons

Photo Gallery

Environment

Ghazipur landfill fire: Annual choking hazard for Delhi

Authorities have missed multiple deadlines to clear out the legacy waste from Ghazipur landfill

Africa

Sudan, a country displaced

One of Africa’s largest and most populous countries is on the brink of famine after a year of war between its Army and main paramilitary

Down To Earth video journalists, Prabhat Kumar and Dhruval Parekh, are at the ground zero of the ‘Farmers’ Protest 2.0’. Both were at the Shambhu border crossing between Patiala in Punjab and Ambala in Haryana as hundreds of farmers from Punjab attempted

Agriculture

Farmers’ Protests 2.0: DTE reports from ground zero Shambhu border

DTE video journalists, Prabhat Kumar & Dhruval Parekh, at Shambhu border as Haryana Police fired tear gas on farmers crossing from Punjab

It has been an ‘arid winter’ in the Union Territory of Ladakh. There has been a complete absence of snowfall since November 2023. And it has set alarm bells ringing in the fragile region. This photo shows the Sangam Point near Nimmo village of Leh distric

Climate Change

Ladakh: No snow in the cold desert

The arid winter in the region this time is raising concerns among the local population, as it forebodes a potentially alarming situation

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सतत विकास

लोकसभा चुनाव 2024: हिमाचल में गायब हैं आपदाओं के लिए जिम्मेवार मुद्दे

देश के दोनों प्रमुख राजनीतिक दलों ने घोषणापत्र में पर्यावरण को आखिरी में शामिल तो किया लेकिन भाषणों और कैंपेनिंग में मुद्दे गायब रहे

प्लास्टिक

शीर्ष 56 बहुराष्ट्रीय कंपनियां 50 फीसदी से अधिक प्लास्टिक प्रदूषण के लिए जिम्मेवार: शोध

कोका-कोला ब्रांडेड कचरे के 11 फीसदी, उसके बाद पेप्सिको (पांच फीसदी ), नेस्ले (तीन फीसदी), डैनोन (तीन फीसदी) और फिलिप मॉरिस इंटरनेशनल (दो फीसदी) का स्थान था।

सतत विकास

अस्कोट-आराकोट अभियान 2024: जड़ों से जोड़ती एक पदयात्रा

पहली अस्कोट-आराकोट यात्रा 25 मई 1974 को पिथौरागढ़, अल्मोड़ा, चमोली, टिहरी, देहरादून और उत्तरकाशी जिलों के करीब 350 गांवों से होकर गुजरी

Data Centre

Waste

Global stances on various facets of plastic pollution

As the fourth round of talks begin in Ottawa for a global plastic treaty, CSE analyses positions taken by various countries on plastics

Environment

The ground beneath our feet

Why soil health and biodiversity matters for the survival of the planet

Water

Parched Garden City

How Bengaluru’s water crisis is of its own making

Water

Counting India’s waterbodies

Down To Earth breaks down data from the country’s first census on waterbodies conducted by the Centre last year

Factsheet

Water

Scheduled for Day Zero

The cities with population above 1 million in 2016, which would face water scarcity in 2050

Sunita Narain's Desk

Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and the Editor of Down To Earth magazine. She is an environmentalist who pushes for changes in policies, practices and mindsets