Come without your car

More hurdles for Navi Mumbai airport

EAC to visit the site in third week of October

Jindal power plant risk to alphonsos

It can function without treating SO2, says environment ministry

Cooking on toxic fumes

Burning biomass causes TB

Cooking stoves in carbon trade

Improved stoves will be standardized for fuel and emission efficiency

CAQM’s focus on captive thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR a welcome step, but challenges ahead

Several industries Down To Earth spoke to were unaware of the new order or were perplexed about the technical feasibility of it in …

As told to Parliament (December 8, 2022): Annual PM10 levels dropped in 95 cities this year

Twenty cities met National Ambient Air Quality Standards for PM10 in 2021-22 compared to 4 in 2017-18

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 17, 2022)

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

Counting north India’s stubble fires: How do NASA satellites capture them

Overall, it is safe to assume that even if satellite images do not show a fire, it does not necessarily mean that nothing is burning on the ground

Is time ticking for coal

Business-as-usual will not work to combat climate crisis. Difficult targets must be set to reduce carbon emissions

Aerosol levels at 20-year-low in north India: NASA satellite data

Scientists compare aerosol optical depth measurements over the country between March 31 to April 5 for five years

10 on 10 with 10 ppm: A wise step on All Fools’ Day

Starting from today, Delhi leads to sell only clean petrol and diesel fuel with sulphur content as low as 10 ppm

Why we need a new lens to clear the air

Science may have become our only crutch against bad air, but it is time we invented a new politics of space that privileges the walker and the cyclist

BS-VI fuel norms from April 1, 2018 in Delhi instead of 2020

Centre for Science and Environment welcomes Union government’s move to help clean Delhi’s air

Practical matters

Despite growth in renewables, coal-based power will continue to fulfil a large share of India's power needs. Instead of resisting the new …

Cement industry misses deadline for new pollution norms

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change asks the cement industry to submit an action plan by April to meet the new norms

Air pollution damages crops more than climate change

Study finds that black carbon and ozone pollution in India has significantly cut wheat and rice yield

Most forest fires this year were in and around national parks, sanctuaries

About seven to eight incidents of big forest fires have been reported from across the country; fire that broke out on Nagaland’s Mount Japfu,…

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Enviroguard

In every sphere of human endeavour, the use of biological indicators provides an elegant device, as they do not disrupt the stability of natural …

Hell in Europe's back yard

Cancer and air pollution go hand in hand in eastern Europe, where an ecological nightmare is still unfolding

Environmental injustice

The poorest people in urban India live in foul environs. Research from across the world shows that the poor stand greater risks of several cancers.…

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

Blind to danger

The government turns a Nelson's eye while the construction sector makes hay on phosphogypsum, a carcinogenic byproduct of the fertiliser industry

Exhausting Practices

Prescribed as the antidote for all problems related to vehicular pollution, Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates have been an obsession …