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 …

Land over nature

Cities are expanding indiscriminately across the globe, at the cost of rich biodiversity  

Harnessing renewables

Auroville moves ahead on the road to energy sufficiency by using non-conventional energy sources

In reverse gear

The Mashelkar Committee's interim report on the country's auto fuel policy proves to be a major setback for the CNG campaign

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 1, 2020)

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

Bengaluru water utility to launch door-to-door drive to check illegal borewells

Residents continue to drill for borewells, unaware that registration is now mandatory

Comprehend

the problem, and then plan

Jammed!

The state of our nation

Integrate

The key lesson

Who foots the huge dole for business?

Bad loans of public sector banks to business are more than double the food subsidy

FIGHTING FOR AIR

Weighed down by extremely high levels of particles in the air, some Indian cities seem to be coming of age with regard to vehicular air pollution.…

High court directs Bengaluru civic body to segregate waste at source

Court to monitor transition to full segregation and processing

HYDERABAD Stalemate

There is a large support of a passive nature, but no outcry against air pollution

BANGALORE waking up

There is a need for better communication between the government and the people

Energised by vegetables

Are biofuels a feasible option to replacing conventional fuels?

Ailing systems

Hospital waste management suffers from poor understanding and even poorer implementation

Steel lobby locks horns with mining firms in Karnataka

Three years after the mining scam that rocked the country, steel producers and mining companies accuse each other of forming cartels to control …

Flawed, but accepted

Pollution board report blames LPG for particulate matter, spares vehicles

On privatising water

What about privatising water? Should India move to do it? What tips the scales in its favour, and what doesn't? In 2003, two editorials in Down …

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

Climate studies, the Indian way

At climate meet researchers present studies on subjects unique to Indian context

On foot and pedal

The teeming millions on foot and pedal are powering mobility in Indian cities. Their numbers exceed those who use cars. Yet they are victims of …

Organic Universe

Organic is all the rage. Organic food, cosmetics, clothes and even organic medicines. But mostly it is food. There are speciality stores that …