Air pollution in Delhi-NCR: Smoke and mirrors

Cleaning Delhi's air needs concerted and year-long action on all fronts; because it concerns our health; our right to breathe

Air pollution in Delhi-NCR: Act, for your children's sake

We are doing too little too late

Restore flow, rivers are self-purifying

We need to go back to the drawing board of Jackie King, the South African who won the World Water Prize 2019 

Delhi battles for clear skies and lungs

The Capital needs to completely transition to clean fuel and address local sources of pollution

Cheering for toilets, with caution

The country did successfully build 100 million toilets, but this success must be made sustainable

Growth of good food must be nurtured

The 2019 edition of First Food: Business of Taste brings you the knowledge of livelihoods that connect to First Food

The dictum on desertification: UNCCD CoP14 presents an opportunity

Land is at the core of fighting climate change that is sure to hurt all sections eventually

World doesn’t have bandwidth to handle climate change-led migration

Every year is the hottest when immigrants are already living on the margins of survival

Ode to politics of consensus: Sheila Dikshit

It would be really unfortunate if we let the Sheila Dikshit way of politics go out of fashion

Catch where it falls: Tradition for water revolution

We have not understood the science and art of harvesting rain on land. It's time we learn from the wisdom that we have ignored and allowed to die

Recycle waste 'In-my-Backyard'

The business of recycling only works when it discounts the costs of health and environment of poor people working in dangerous conditions

Waste trade: Is this right?

Waste is a resource for traders as they cannot afford to let it be burnt, but there is waste that cannot be recycled and has to be burnt

Environmental charter for the new government

Sustainable development, pollution, employment generation and agrarian crisis did not play major roles in deciding the outcome of the 2019 …

Changing character of cyclones

Fani teaches us that the future is even more risked and even more unpredictable than we imagined. It is time we woke up to this reality

Holding the mirror, truthfully, for 28 years

Down To Earth's mission is not hidden in reams of corporate gloss. It is open. It is a dare, writes our editor, Sunita Narain.

Climate caveats

Without the switch to renewable energy, CO2 emissions would have been 50 per cent higher in the world; that's great, but not enough

On Greta Thunberg and the protesting students

Sunita Narain on the lessons from the ongoing #FridaysForFuture demonstrations  

Bending backward for good food

We need to make the connection between what we eat and why we eat it. Because if we lose the knowledge and culture of our local cuisines then we …

Go for inclusive growth

As much as the government works to formalise the Indian economy, conditions force people into illegal and informal business

Pollution’s underbelly

We have to change this cycle of destruction, where we shift our consumption to poorer regions where pollution does not matter

The promise and reality of renewable energy

This is not the time to be complacent with green power growth in India because the challenges have grown too

Time up for reinvention?

If 2018 was the year of revolt, 2019 should be the year of realisation that we must change the way we do business

Revolt of the rich and the poor

When a recent report says 26 people now own the same wealth as the world's poorest half and the IMF chief flags risks associated with India’…

A vicious nexus

To ensure that inconvenient research is besmirched and killed, industries are invariably attacking the science and researchers

Breathless silence

The inconvenient truth is that when there is a public health emergency in Delhi, only the poor are asked to sacrifice