‘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 …

How carcinogenic is your CAR?

Do you want a country full of cars? Cars cause cancer. Scientists can even measure the cancer potency levels of the cars we ride. The so-called …

Green norms breach: 15 coal-firing power plants fined Rs 38 cr

Units ordered to deposit penalties by June 5; Central Pollution Control Board may pursue closure orders

Okhla waste to energy plant put on notice for excess emissions

Residents had complained to chief minister Kejriwal during janata durbar; plant shut for now because of boiler malfunction

High BP, tobacco are top killers

Study on global disease burden shows infectious diseases are declining

Power plant in the dock, third time

Pollutes Irai river in Maharashtra, kills thousands of fish

Smog in the office

A soup of chemicals found in modern offices may be harmful to the occupants' health

A brush with industry

Roaming pollutants

Mighty sinner

Gas chambers

Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs

Bangalore besieged

Respiratory problems increase with rise in air pollution in Bangalore

Mapping the dirt

NASA comes up with the most comprehensive view yet of global air pollution

Black city

Darkness and pollution enveloped Delhi on the second day of the new year

Penetrating evidence

Air pollution causes genetic damage among Kolkata residents

Clean coal technologies lie untapped

Faltering steps and narrow vision thwarts decades of research

Bytes

As told to Parliament (February 5, 2024): Over 400 MLD industrial effluents discharged into Ganga and Yamuna daily

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 25, 2023)

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