COVID-19 will place India’s biomedical waste management under terrible strain

Under-reporting, poor segregation and lack of awareness ail India’s COVID-19 waste management. The pressure is set to further increase with …

COVID-19: Disposing biomedical waste Bengal’s challenge at hand

The state is yet to follow CPCB guidelines on collection of biomedical waste of quarantined people

Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR high after Diwali

Despite cracker ban, the 24-hour average level of PM2.5 during Diwali and the morning after has been 397 mg per cubic metre, which is 6.6 times …

Cash clogged

Will Delhi’s ambitious sewerage plan help clean the Yamuna?

Audit of India's water bodies confirms their polluted status

CAG assessment reveals governments' inaction in curbing water pollution

A measure of pollution

Can we save Ganga?

The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Down To Earth team travels to the most polluted stretch of the …

Polluting units shut in Kaziranga

Green tribunal fines state, Centre for allowing stone crushers, brick kilns near Assam park

Reviving NCR’s air: CAQM submits action plan to NGT, mostly in line with CSE recommendations

The action plan incorporates the updating of emission inventories and source apportionment studies across the entire NCR

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 16, 2020)

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

Namami Gange: 5 reasons why Ganga will not be clean by 2020

Even after 4 years and an allotment of Rs 22,000 crore, Modi’s flagship programme is far from being a success  

Deocha-Pachami mining project: Compensation disbursal begins but details of plan hazy

A total of 203 landowners have received job letters and compensation, said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

India urgently needs certification system for industrial emissions monitoring devices

India can take a leaf out of the approach by Europe, US

Chhattisgarh green board to make access to emissions data more user-friendly

Last year, CSE had found that only 19 of 35 pollution control boards were displaying emissions data in the public domain

Govt's fast tracking of draft rules on antibiotic residues commendable

It will position India as a responsible nation tackling antimicrobial resistance, besides improving conditions in preventing the menace 

Gaurav Gogoi to table bill for changing air pollution law

Congress MP said updating 1981 legislation concerning air pollution was need of the hour

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 12-16)

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

Ban toxic imports: court

Supreme Court wants hazardous waste rules aligned with Basel Convention

MoEF drags feet over law for safe disposal of CFLs

Reasons for prolonged delay unknown

Clean energy fund to be used for cleaning 12 toxic dump sites

States asked to bear 60 per cent cost

Weak rules, weaker regulators

Factories flout emission standards at will

Home truths

What's happening inside disposal units?

More cities critically polluted

Tighter norms make air we breathe more poisonous

Unchecked tyre recycling units wreak environmental havoc

Only 46% of tyre pyrolysis oil units in the country comply with norms