How green is the urea sector?

A comprehensive environmental assessment of India’s urea industry reveals that despite Kafkaesque bureaucratic hurdles from sourcing to …

Kumbh’s over, now God save the Ganga

Kanpur's tanneries, shut down during the pilgrimage, have reopened and are polluting the river again: sources

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 26-30)

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

Mahad loses river, crops

Polluting industrial units closed only on paper

Dye filter

An improvised bio-sand filter helps Nepal dyers treat toxic effluents

Factories poison Khed

Villagers angry over chemical effluents in their drinking water

Effluent treatment plants must meet water quality norms by March 31: SC

Justice Kehar directs state governments to initiate criminal and civil proceedings against industrial units flouting norms

Green tribunal orders enquiry on Jodhpur industrial sludge

About 10,000 odd industries in and around the city are dumping waste in river tributary, alleges petition

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Tannery convicted

No check on effluents

Spam in fishing net

Tirupur dyeing units told to close

Madras High Court orders shut down till zero discharge

Field science

States asked to clean up

No permits in high-polluted areas  

For a clean ganga

How Baddi pharma waste can make your medicines ineffective

The waste contains active ingredients used in antibiotics and may be contributing to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. It is time to …

Industrial units in Vapi continue to flout pollution norms

Union environment ministry had lifted moratorium in the area after state pollution control board promised to improve the situation

No let-off till zero discharge

Towards zero discharge

Two textile cities, Tirupur and Ludhiana, explore ways to stop effluent discharge into streams

Gutter will sparkle

Ludhiana is going all out to clean up Buddha Nallah, the sole receptacle of its industrial filth

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

Can we save Ganga?

The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Down To Earth team travels to the most polluted stretch of the …

Andhra hospitals flout bio-medical rules

119 hospitals issued show cause notice by state pollution control board for violations

Where river runs black

Industries from far and near dump untreated toxic effluents near Ulhasnagar, choking a river and sickening people