Fresh water is turning saltier, flags study

Freshwater salinization can poison drinking water and increase chloride concentrations in it over time, the study underlines

What is soil erosion and how to combat it

It's estimated that one billion tons of valuable nutrients in topsoil are lost to erosion every year.

Illegal stone quarrying causing kidney disease in Odisha's Jajpur district

Locals allege that illegal stone quarrying in Dharmshala block of Odisha is contaminating the nearby source of water, leading to kidney diseases

A solar water purifier, with a difference

Scientists at the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute at Phaltan in Maharashtra developed a solar water purifier, that does not require …

Your food might be growing in contaminated soil

Soil pollution poses a major risk to human health by impairing plant metabolism and making crops unsafe for consumption

Floods in polluted rivers can pollute groundwater too

Floods have the potential to impact the microbial quality of groundwater in affected areas, say researchers from Anna University 

One-third power plants follow new, strict mercury emission standards in US

The court is yet to give a final verdict on the new standards, after state governments and industries contested them

US overhauls law on chemical safety; India should follow suit

As the US focuses on more stringent safety tests for chemicals, India needs to replicate a similar model to curb indiscriminate use of pesticides

Sewage treatment plant failure leads to jaundice outbreak in Shimla

More than 1,000 people get jaundice as city’s sewage mixes with the drinking water supply

Science and Technology - Briefs

Industrial processing contaminates tea

A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto

American organic farmers are trying to ensure the biotech giant cannot sue them

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

The dumber number game

News 360°- Briefs

Is chemical the culprit?

Scientists in Bihar find a plausible link between pesticides and breast cancer

What it takes to deliver midday meal

Pesticide fatigue

Makes the busy bee a lazy pollinator

Baby food contaminated with endocrine disruptor bisphenol A

24 die of jaundice in Maharashtra's textile city

Ichalkaranji does not have the facilities to care for the 3,500 persons taken ill by Hepatitis E

US reaction to cola controversy exaggerrated India Inc

Superbug prompts antibiotics policy

Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription

The results

The study

CSE’s Pollution Monitoring Laboratory tested 12 branded honey samples for 6 antibiotics. These antibiotics are reportedly used for disease …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 4, 2023)

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