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
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
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
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
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
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 …
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
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 …