Okhla waste-to-energy plant safe: Jayanthi Natarajan

Activists, residents contest the statement; say India has no standards on emissions from incinerators

Centre to identify a laboratory to analyse toxic waste from Union Carbide factory

Order follows Maharashtra Pollution Control Board statement that it cannot predict the impact of burning the toxic waste

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …

Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …

Mind the mercury

Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded

Environment ministry notifies construction & demolition waste management rules

Construction and demolition waste is not a waste but a resource, says Prakash Javadekar

Toxic dump in Karachi talk of the town

More steel means more livelihood loss, pollution

Run-up to Ottawa: Civil society groups call for support from ASEAN leadership in fight against plastic pollution

Region grappling with overflowing landfills, polluted waterways and impacted marine ecosystems

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 15, 2024)

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

Plastic recycling is failing — here’s how the world must respond

Retailers must make it easier for customers to refill containers

Simply put: Delhi Master's Plan

India collected just 3% e-waste generated in 2018, 10% in 2019: CPCB report

In 2020, e-waste generation rose 32 per cent to 1,014,961 tonne 

GERMANY

Lethal stores

Spaced out waste

Radioactive threat

'Green' government

Oceans despair

1998. The International Year of the Ocean. But the news from the deep is not good

Managing wastes

The MEF draws up an ambitious plan for the management of municipal solid wastes

Polluters to be punished

Battery management

OBSOLETE PESTICIDES

Western tragedy

Eerie silence is all that is countering environmental pollution

Fighting against pollution

Industrial units in Bharuch polluted the Amlakhadi river. Now, it is payback time