Capacity building key to mainstreaming onsite sanitation management 

CSE’s School of Water and Waste aims to establish policy principles, innovative technologies and implementation strategies for citywide …

Wheels are turning

Let’s share cars; take a bus or metro; cycle or walk

New safety norms for toys

Meant to check use of toxic phthalates

Bhopal’s toxic waste raises stink

Bombay High Court stays transfer of Union Carbide waste to Maharashtra

US reaction to cola controversy exaggerrated India Inc

States take the fizz out of cola

Let’s talk

On February 24, Centre for Science and Environment raised the curtains for the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances. The two-day conclave …

Suffering from myopia

George Bush may not understand the 'science' of climate change. But the corporate houses behind him will soon understand the global benefits of …

How we are losing the battle

The results

The study

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

Forest to farms

India's paper industry now sources more wood from farmers. Why does it still demand forestland?

Powerless and lost

REVIVING WISDOM

Rainwater is abundant in India. So is its mismanagement. This has led to a human-made water scarcity. The only way to solve modern India's water …

Get your own vaccine

Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …

Is that milk safe? CSE’s assessment of antibiotic misuse in dairy sector says it’s not

A recent assessment found that dairy farmers indiscriminately use antibiotics for diseases common in animals, and is likely to aggravate the …

SC refuses to extend pollution norms deadline for power producers

The association of power producers sought extension to deadline for meeting pollution norms to 2024 from 2022

Enough is enough

For over a week after Diwali, Delhi breathed poison. Air pollution peaked to unprecedented levels. Public anger forced emergency measures. But …

Need or greed?

The Union Ministry of Finance has recently alleged that green clearances are holding up the country’s infrastructure development and growth.…

30 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: a continuing disaster

An appraisal by Sunita Narain and Chandra Bhushan, exclusively extracted from the recently released book, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, After 30 Years

Cyclones, doubts and monsoon

An early monsoon breaks a few myths

People reject EIA for Chhattisgarh steel project

PR companies give public face to corporate agenda

R Devendra

Kedar, Tamil Nadu

Ram Karan Bhadana

Laporia, Jaipur, Rajasthan