Chhattisgarh's Industrial Jungle

Chhattisgarh is set to become the largest producer of thermal power, cement and sponge iron. The push is on to install 77 per cent of India's …

Eco-friendly slag to help make cement in Chhattisgarh

Roman secret to durable architecture? Self-healing concrete

Quicklime, pozzolanic material ‘hot-mixed’ to make concrete can endure for millenia; It can also help reduce environment …

Asbestos unit disturbs Chainpur’s peace

Work started without environmental clearance

Smoke from cement factory leaves toddlers gasping for air in Howrah

Breathlessness, skin allergy and eye infections is all too common for villagers in Dhulagarh in Bengal’s Howrah district 

How did the Rebels beat the Empire in Star Wars? The answer is closer to home than you think

The fate of the galaxy was decided not by light sabres — but by concrete

The flyash burden

Will the targets set for utilising flyash by power plants be met?

Apex court spanner in Nirma cement plant

Nirma loses wetland

Environment ministry revokes clearance to its cement plant

Court raps environment ministry

Asks why it allowed Nirma to create confusion on wetland

Hills of greyville

Fast-expanding steel industry yet to find an effective way to reuse its waste product, slag

Cleared for growth

Is it all grey?

NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2019)

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

Illegal sand mining around the world: islands disappear; livelihoods at stake

As demand for usable sand surpasses supply, illegal miners are stripping riverbeds, beaches and causing irreversible damage to environment

Nirma's cement plant hits hurdle

Supreme Court asks the industrial house to prove that the plant site is a wasteland

Nirma plant in trouble again

Environment ministry says project site a wetland

La farce

Jaypee powers ahead in Himachal

‘Company built power plant illegally; managed clearance’  

Himachal denotifies sanctuaries for hydel projects

No concrete plans

The Centre for Science and Environment's Green Rating Project team has rated the cement industry. Its findings uncovered some surprises. The …

Environmental clearance for JSW’s Paradip project in Odisha scrapped by NGT

The principle of sustainable development cannot be ignored, the court said

Plastic digester for better biogas production

International banks lobby for Lafarge

Amounts to influencing ongoing Supreme Court case, say activists

Big numbers

The state is on a spree