Damp, snowy weekend ahead: Minimum temperatures to rise, dip again from January 14
Dense fog and cold wave over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the next 24 hours
Diwali amid COVID-19: Not bursting fire crackers will keep Delhi from turning into a gas chamber again
Even under a zero-firecracker emission scenario, PM2.5 levels are predicted to bring air quality at the edge of ‘very poor’ and ‘…
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (November 2-6, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Asymptomatic family contacts form bulk of COVID-19 cases in India: ICMR study
Nearly 40,000 individuals out of 1 mln tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 between Jan 22 and April 30, 2020. About 25.3% of them were asymptomatic …
Delhi High Court orders curb on junk food sale in schools across India
Judgement is a milestone development in addressing growing burden of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, says Sunita Narain of Centre for …
AAP promises to improve health set-up and promote generic medicines in Delhi
Party says it will address health concerns of both the elderly and the young if it is voted to power
Dead end for diesel buses
Polluting public transport vehicles sent packing as apex court refuses to extend green makeover deadline
Controls off for diesel generators
Key environmental clause deleted from rules governing diesel generator sets barely six months after implementation
COVID-19: Serosurvey estimated every fifth person in Chennai infected
Highest infection estimated to be in children, lowest in people more than 60 years
Deficient programme
Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?
Delhi to get Waterbodies Authority
Over half the 900 wetlands have been encroached upon
Waste-to-energy plant loses aid
ADB withdraws Rs 10 crore
Repeal of Maharasthra land ceiling act not enough to solve urban crisis
A debate on India's street food
Our little understood urban dystopia
‘Coal emissions nourish trees’
Environment ministry pushes Jindal power plants in Konkan
The anatomy of congestion
Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 30, 2020)
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 24-28, 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
Locusts invade Delhi-NCR
Insects spotted in Delhi’s Aya Nagar and Vasant Kunj areas in addition to five places in Gurugram; expected to move deeper into Delhi
A tinge of green
Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just-concluded assembly elections.
North India Deluge 2023: Rainfall during July 1-10 broke multiple records
Excess to large excess rainfall in almost 40% of country at the end of the period, but over half was still rain deficient
Supreme Court bans registration of diesel vehicles beyond 2000cc for three months
The court asks the Centre and Delhi government to work together and fix norms to clean the city’s toxic air
Paddy fields burning: Smog shrouds national capital
The smoke resulting from burning crop residues combined with vehicular emissions make the air we breathe deadly
Citizens' forum demands continuation of AAP's free water supply scheme
On poll eve they prepare a resolution for all political parties, demanding extension of free water supply to all residents of Delhi and scrapping …