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ECO-IMPACTS AND THE GREENING OF POSTMODERNITY: NEW MAPS FOR COMMUNICATION STUDIES, CULTURAL STUDIES AND SOCIOLOGY·Tom Jagtenberg, David …

Debate: Has economic liberalisation threatened India’s environment and natural resources?

The inaugural issue of Down To Earth (May 31, 1992) coincided with India opening up its economy. We carried a debate on how economic …

Stockholm 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment: World Environment Day 2022

It became the first UN conference which had the word environment in its title.

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What are we doing to stop plastic menace?

The mission to end the plastic menace must include ending single-use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel-based materials, …

Win some, lose most

To find out what the Union Budget has in store for science and the environment, Down To Earth spoke to environmentalists and representatives …

In the red

The Union Budget fails to make any provisions for protecting the environment.

Challenges for Anil Madhav Dave, India’s new environment minister

Dave inherits a ministry that is being criticised for diluting environmental laws to facilitate quick industrial growth

Is an environmental apocalypse approaching India?

The Union government scarcely conceals its contempt for the environment working assiduously to dismantle environment protection.

EIAs by registered consultants only

Quality Council extends accreditation deadline till January

Myth of compliance

Simply Put: World Environment Day 2021

Piloting the train to ruin

Why bother about environment?

Meet Bakkar

Egyptian cartoon hero cleans up the Red Sea

Green Schools Programme Awards 2024

CSE’s Green Schools Programme Awards recognise schools that are the best managers of their natural resources within their own premises

How important is birth environment for you now?

Environmental factors at birth, such as temperature and altitude, can affect the baby's fertility later, show recent studies

How Nanak used nature in his verses to drive home his point

Down To Earth speaks to musician and singer Rabbi Shergill about the poetry of Sikhism’s founder and its many allusions to facets of …

TV’s ‘pop politics’

January 2, 2018 was the 16th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. His …

Relevance of Gandhian environmentalism

Mahatma Gandhi never used the words environment protection, but his writings are replete with remarks on the excesses of industrial society

Imparting environmental education

What is the best approach to instil in the minds of students a lifelong respect for the environment?

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Green has many shades

Green party in the pipeline must put people first

‘The world doesn’t need a treaty on plastic waste reduction’

UNEP chief Erik Solheim, during his visit to India, the global host for World Environment Day, says unlike climate change, plastic waste can be …

Bureaucratic coup

Administrative officers wrest control of the environment ministry, relegating scientists to the sidelines