Arnab Pratim Dutta

Associate Editor, Down To Earth

India Health Effects Climate Change Pesticides Conflicts Transport Hydroelectricity US Renewable Energy Legislation

Climate change: IPCC report warns of looming food crisis

The report—Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability—says erratic and extreme weather, like severe droughts, floods …

Clearer than ever: global warming is for real

Scientists are now 95 per cent certain that global warming is human-induced

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

NGOs to boycott climate talks

Civil society groups express unhappiness over developed countries and Poland blocking negotiations

UN climate talks: Money for Green Climate Fund to be raised from market

Finance agency goes ahead with decision in spite of demand from developing nations to keep private investments out

Treasure in troubled land

International aid has supported the economy of Afghanistan for 12 years. With aid flow gradually declining, the war-torn country will now have to …

Curse of the horn

Soaring prices of rhino horns have led to a new spurt of poaching in the Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Once heralded as a conservation success …

Lavasa exposed

By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …

Cancun clinches deal—for polluters

Cancun has restored the sanctity of multilateral negotiations under the UN climate convention. People had lost faith in it by the end of the …

Profit from the poor

Fifty-four suicides in Andhra Pradesh have blown the lid off the social posturing by microfinance companies. Before the news of the deaths sank …

What a bright idea!

Organised waste collection in Pune has boosted segregation at the source

On the impacts of nanotechnology

Barry Castleman, an environmental consultant and expert on workplace health hazards, tells Arnab Pratim Dutta about nanotechnology's impacts

"Lessons in waste disposal from Lahore"

Ata-Ul-Haq is CEO of Green Technology Environmental Corporation, which set up Pakistan's first mega composting plant in Lahore in 2006. He …

Energy transition is now a must

Marie-Hélène Aubert, adviser to the French president for international negotiations on climate and environment, was recently in New …

Chikungunya virus gets deadlier

Mercury is now traceable

More bus rides

Four Chambal dams stopped

Sodium vapour or fluorescent lights?

In the making

Dam's height restricted

Mining explosives attract Maoists

Downstream of India

'Supreme Court could have saved India's beaches'

Environment ministry in clean-up mode

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