Delhi air pollution crisis: CPCB advises offices to make employees ‘work from home’
The suggestion came as the overall air quality in the national capital remained ‘severe’ for a second consecutive day
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 13, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 18, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 14, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 6, 2020)
Cleaner, greener: Can architects help maintain natural correction?
Infrastructure is the backbone of any growing economy and fixing the way we build it can help address air pollution concerns
NGT wants environment compensation regime for non-complying CETPs
NGT directives to CPCB to develop environmental compensation regime for non-complying CETPs may act as deterrence against non-compliance
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 8, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 23, 2019)
Cement industry misses deadline for new pollution norms
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change asks the cement industry to submit an action plan by April to meet the new norms
No silver lining
Even as UNEP calls for an international treaty on mercury pollution, India and other developing countries are oblivious to the dangers of being …
Light on mercury
Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light
Stubble fire counts up, Delhi air quality slips to ‘severe’
Stubble burning share of PM2.5 estimated around 42% on November 4 from 5% a day earlier
‘Very poor’ Delhi air to slip further over 2 days
Blame factors: Calm surface wind, low ventilation, local pollution sources
Valley of despair
Unrestrained chromite mining takes Sukinda valley to the edge of an abyss
Gensets under check
Clean coal technologies lie untapped
Faltering steps and narrow vision thwarts decades of research
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 21, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 13, 2020)
CPCB cracks whip on 52 firms for flouting plastic waste rules
This is the first time the pollution watchdog has held companies accountable for not holding their end of the deal
NGT pulls up UP municipalities for sewage discharge into Ganga
The tribunal refuses to accept financial crunch as the reason behind the nagar palikas polluting the river
Under continuous check
The continuous emission monitoring system to curb air and water pollution can herald a new era in India's environmental regime
Polluters under MoEF scanner
Ministry bans setting up of industries in eight highly polluted industrial clusters
Daunting journey
Carbon particles from biomass burning and vehicles could be discolouring the Taj Mahal. Down To Earth returns to the monument, a symbol of …
Bhopal waste to be disposed of in the sea?
Taking cue from disposal of chemical weapons in 2009, Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee suggests incinerating the waste on a floating …