Budget kick: Keep these factors in mind while setting up a Bio-CNG plant
Political and institutional support must be gained through a sustained and deliberate communication process in which Bio-CNG’s economic and …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 15, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
COVID-19: Hits & misses of Centre’s advisory on water supply, sanitation
A review of MoHUA April, 2020 advisory on safe management of water supply and sanitation
Plastic-free planet: Protecting sanitation workers & wastepickers, just transition discussed on Day 2 of INC-3
UN chief underlines role of plastics in fuelling climate crisis
Ayodhya airport expansion and discharge of water from Coca-Cola factory put villagers in a fix
Villages drowning after rains due to airport expansion while polluted water destroying fields, allege locals
Turn around India’s water story
Give local communities greater control over water structures for a secure future
Plastic crisis in the mountains: Will extended producer responsibility bring in change
EPR initiatives so far have been few and far, and in no way keeping up with the levels of plastic pollution they cause
DTE Coverage: Plastic’s toxic trail
A 5-part series that looks at health impacts across the life cycle of plastic
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 4, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Plastic-free planet: India’s polymer problem can be tackled if its street vendors switch to reusables, says study
Centre should take strong position on primary polymer production instead of stand taken at Nairobi recently, say activists
Did Delhi’s poor waste management add to severity of floods?
Solid waste collection is not regular and consistent in many areas
World Environment Day 2023: A call to action for a sustainable future
The theme for this year is ‘solutions to plastic pollution’
By laminating our oceans, we are choking life
This World Environment Day we need to pledge towards curbing our plastic use
Is implementation of plastic ban in various states confined to paper?
No takers for recycling of many single-use plastic products, says report
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 6, 2024)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2023)
Run-up to World EV Day: Battery passport, an opportunity for India
India should leverage its experience with Aadhaar / UPI to deploy scalable digital solutions in the battery value chain
Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up — but manufacturers are fighting back
Governments have achieved disappointingly little so far and even the UN treaty on plastic pollution is unlikely to produce fundamental change
DTE Reportage: World meets in Paris to discuss an end to plastic pollution
Member states have urged the preparation of a zero draft which will be up for negotiations at the next round in Nairobi, Kenya
How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth
The people of Edo Period Japan lived with time as it changed with the seasons, cherished materials and used the wisdom of reuse as a matter of …
Ground report: How is Chhattisgarh’s ‘dung deal’ working
plan to purchase cow dung to boost rural economy, ensure clean villages and solve stray cattle problem saw initial success, but things …
How smartphones are killing the planet
The energy used to build a single smartphone is equal to the energy required to operate it for about a decade
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 20, 2020)
Manual scavenging has gone underground in India: WHO
Most undesirable, high-risk jobs typically subcontracted to temporary, informal workers based on their caste, says new report
Antibiotic awareness: States need to do more to dispose unused medicines
Government must introduce stringent rules as unused antibiotics continue to be dumped in the open, adding to India’s burden of …