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 …