Regulating the Polluters: Markets and Strategies for Protecting the Global Environment
National governments and private stakeholders have long recognized that protecting the global environment requires international cooperation.
How India Sees The World: Kautilya to the 21st Century
Using the prism of Kautilya's Arthashastra and other ancient treatises on statecraft, the author shows the historical sources of India's worldview.…
How hard is it to imagine a world free of nuclear weapons?
The idea of global disarmament looks like a far cry with countries continuing to equip their arsenal with nuclear warheads
Polluting plastics die hard
By 2050, our oceans will be holding more litter than fish and an estimated 99 per cent of all seabirds will have ingested plastic. Are countries …
Power Play
New Rules for NGT appointments will further complicate the already strained relations between the judiciary and the executive
Waking to the chemical spill in Delhi
Lives of about 500 schoolkids were put at stake when a toxic chemical leaked in a busy slum area in south Delhi on May 6. Down To Earth finds out …
Delhi gas leak incident: schoolkids find themselves at the receiving end
Over 400 students were hospitalised on Saturday after toxic chemical leakage at a container depot near two schools in southeast Delhi's …
Solar Suresh: Chennai's green revolutionary
D Suresh lives in Kilpauk in Chennai in his green and sustainable home. An IIT and IIM graduate, 71year old Suresh has managed to set up a …
Underdog resilience
The downtrodden, destitute and the diseased are the lead protagonists in this collection of short stories
Justice eludes for more than three decades
32 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the survivors still fight the aftermath of the industrial disaster and government apathy
Annual State Of India’s Environment - SOE 2017
You can reserve your copy RIGHT NOW at a special price of Rs.190/-!!! We have made this year’s book even better incorporating some of the …
Cascading impact of monsoon
Monsoon rains are synonymous with flooded streets and traffic congestion, with water stagnation due to choked drains resulting in the spread of …
A look at news you may have missed this week
How Europe could be affected by dengue because of changing climate to Tanzania launching a clean-up of Mount Kilimanjaro—a quick look at …
Interview with Praveen Saxena, advisor at Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Praveen Saxena is advisor in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy where he is in-charge of small hydro power programme
Waterprotest
Residents angry at a city that has sufficient water but refuses to guarantee equal access
2016 Annual State of India’s Environment Report (SOE) - Print & e-book)
The latest issue of the State of India’s Environment 2016 is bigger and better. Articles summing up the latest developments from forests …
Draft EIA 2020 undercuts India’s biodiversity and climate goals
The proposal to weaken policies for environmental protection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) draft, 2020, has resulted in …
Draft EIA: SC rejects Centre challenge to Delhi HC translation order
The high court heard a petition asking the Centre to print the draft EIA notification in 22 languages mentioned in the Eight Schedule of the …
2006: The waterloo year
It's the typos, stupid
UNEA-6 opens with a call for environmental multilateralism
It is time to put political differences aside, focus on threats facing the planet and embark on the pathway to a sustainable and safe future, …
The paradox of nature and balanced accounts
Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for …
Green innovation steals the show at SEED Awards
An Indian enterprise and 27 African ventures win prize for sustainable business models empowering communities
Cabinet signs death warrant for green panels
In one fell swoop the Union ministry of environment and forests is preparing to disband several key committees set up under section 3 (iii) of …
Coming to terms with nature
Book>> Socialist Register 2007 Coming to Terms with Nature by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys The Merlin Press, London 2006 Published in India …