US announces first national regulations on safe coal ash disposal

Environment watchdog formulates rules for lining of all ash disposal ponds and to define ash pond’s design and pollution monitoring requirements

Pollution and plants

Ecologists reveal that trees are precise indicators of environmental health, as they show specific symptoms with an increase in air pollution

Talking about pollution

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To save the future

A change is needed in government policy to discourage the use of fossil fuels. Strict pollution control measures have to be implemented

Alarming situation

If fossil fuel emissions go unchecked, there is a possibility of sulphur dioxide emissions increasing four-fold in India by 2020

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Dead end for diesel buses

Polluting public transport vehicles sent packing as apex court refuses to extend green makeover deadline

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (July 20-24, 2020)

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

Waste-to-energy plant loses aid

ADB withdraws Rs 10 crore

Iron, steel, and dioxins

Canada and the US are going to investigate dioxin emissions from iron and steel plants

Goa sponge iron plants get closure notice

The dangers of living by the main road

Hard evidence

Pollution, too much fat, thicken your arteries

Glacial melt's carbon connection

Industry pollutants in river kills cattle and fishes in Bihar

A tactical war with pests

Ready to taxi

Quit Wardha

Gandhi ashram protests polluting pig iron plant nearby

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …

Countries agreed to ban ozone-depleting chemicals in 1980s — but 5 CFCs are increasing to record levels in atmosphere

The 1987 Montreal protocol restricted the release of chlorofluorocarbons to the atmosphere

THERMAL POWER

Power plants consumed 530 million tonnes of coal in 2014-15, which is around three-fourths of the total coal use in the country

Almost half of world’s population exposed to indoor air pollution

Experts highlight the hazards of indoor air pollution; call for urgent shift to clean cooking fuel

Living with smokers is as bad as living in polluted cities

Passive smoking can expose non-smokers to three times the officially recommended levels of fine particulate matter

Lessons Delhi could learn from Beijing to clean up its air act

Delhi's bad air woes are worsened by an unresponsive media, unaware people and a government that does not seem to care

Health cost of air pollution in India assessed at 3 per cent of its GDP

Total damage to India because of environmental degradation is US $ 80 billion, says first such national-level economic evaluation made by World Bank