Amma Canteen Scheme: An unexpected, but pleasant gift amid COVID-19

Amma canteen scheme an effective mechanism to serve migrants during lockdown

Villagers in Tamil Nadu face groundwater crisis

Soft-drinks company held for contaminating groundwater

Offshore wind energy: India set to harness coastal breezes

Eight zones off the coasts of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu have been identified as potential offshore wind energy zones

Fight over Novartis's patent to intensify

Madras HC dismisses Novartis' petition

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 17, 2022)

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

Centre announces Rs 940 crore, but Tamil Nadu yet to learn from disasters

As floods in Tamil Nadu cause a financial dent and Chennai is declared a disaster zone, a look at the rescue efforts and what’s missing in …

SC dismisses petition seeking to stall Kudankulam commissioning

Rejects demand for panel to examine whether court’s directions on safety measures are being properly implemented

Who is protected?

The Lok Sabha passed Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Bill with complete amendments on August 9, 2001, twenty months after it …

Waste plant in Tamil Nadu raises stink

Residents say the project will contaminate drinking water; pollution board gives clean chit

In short

New process to minimise chemical, energy use in making leather

India braces for cyclone Nilam

Coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu on high alert

US shipping out 'spoils' of terror

Rubble from World Trade Center arrives in India to a hostile reception by environmentalists

Bad tobacco ads

Cigarette smoke may lead to cataract

Asbestos: it cements the government

Daily Court Digest: Major Environment Orders (June 15, 2020)

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

‘My mentor Laurie Baker’

BENNY KURIAKOSE began his architecture career in 1984. He was one of the privileged few who worked under the tutelage of Laurie Baker which …

Elephants unsafe in Odisha

Killing of five elephants in Saturday's train accident takes toll of unnatural deaths of jumbos in past five years up to 194

High court questions permission to make Kudankulam plant operational

Judgement in related case on nuclear safety is likely on August 29

Programme plugged

Asia's sooty air

COVID-19: Serosurvey estimated every fifth person in Chennai infected

Highest infection estimated to be in children, lowest in people more than 60 years

E-waste toxins in mum’s milk

Urban people more at risk