Clear as air

The grim picture of a lung scarred by pollution is of no shock value today. An ailing populace continues to throw up a phlegm of protests. To …

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 25-29, 2020)

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

Okhla waste to energy plant is spewing lead, other toxins into air, say residents

Air samples tested by independent agency under citizens monitoring programme

India launches weather satellite

Will help understand country’s monsoon cycle better

US approves new drug that can cure even drug resistant TB

Experts, activists seek new regime for its rational use

COVID-19: The need is to decentralise how we manage wastewater

The water crisis in India is dire: By 2030, the country’s water demand is projected to be twice the available supply

Letters

Deafening Noise

Constant exposure to noise can make one deaf. The major culprit is road traffic. Can one avoid noise? It’s difficult. Checking it, however, …

Totally drug resistant TB: government in denial mode

Health ministry deputes team to Mumbai; says neither WHO nor tuberculosis control programme recognise TDR-TB

Indefinite moratorium on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists for ban on herbicide tolerant crops for India

Indefinite ban on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists also against herbicide-tolerant crops for India