Independent initiative: Film festival

'Quotes from the Earth' is an independent festival of films on the environment. A unique event in that it is the first time that such a festival …

‘Development will eventually lead to environmental conflicts’

With sustainable development goals in place, increasing democratisation and connectivity of the world, ecologisation of politics and vice-versa …

'We are marginalising those who depend on natural resources'

Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain talks about how we are plundering our resources with our consumption patterns in her new book, Why I Should Be …

There will be a serious increase in lawsuits against fossil fuel companies in the coming years

So far, around 1,500 climate-related lawsuits have been brought before courts around the world

Road construction projects are destroying Goa's traditional wetlands

Intensive infrastructure projects in Goa are threatening a unique wetland system that protects the state from flooding

Pollution, heat affect cognition more among those from disadvantaged sections: Study

The effects of temperature are more pronounced in the rural parts of China and India

In photos: Hard times for India’s wool industry

India’s wool industry may have set off on a decline: Degrading pastureland and an increase in agricultural activity has affected sheep herding …

World Environmental Health Day: Let’s strengthen environmental health to implement SDGs

Restoring our contaminated ecosystem and biodiversity will help to brush off poverty

Crop risks, environmental damages, hunger and the 2020 farm laws

Improved access to new markets, better yields and higher income need to safeguard environmental sustainability and farmers’ indebtedness

Evidences dating back to the 1500s to be used for projections on climate change, biodiversity

The scoping study will be conducted over three years and analyse impact up till 2050

Drilling in details

Hartman de Souza decodes Goa's mining machinery, which has defrocked the state's environment

This is why Kerala floods were the worst in a century

Kerala's worst flood since 1924 reinforces how local environmental degradation and lack of disaster preparedness can make extreme weather events …

Endgame

Calamities, environmental degradation and bad governance invest to make Orissa India's poorest state

Degraded land the size of China needs to be restored by 2030 to prevent biodiversity loss: UN Report

Every single year, we lose ecosystem services worth more than 10 per cent of our global economic output, the report said

Climate change & trafficking: ‘We have little understanding’

Down To Earth spoke with Christopher Richter from International Organisation for Migration to understand why the data gap exists

Beyond conservation, why our natural ecosystems need restoration

Significant strides have been made in both the science and practice of restoration over the last three decades, with specialisation across …

UNDP kicks off its innovation summit

The two-day conference will see how innovations can address development challenges in Asia and the Pacific

‘EIAs of mining projects have become a farce’

Christopher Albin-Lackey, senior researcher with New York-based non-profit Human Rights Watch (HRW), has documented the large-scale environmental …

Ease of doing business takes precedence over environmental and social concerns in project review process

The office memorandum has taken a very myopic view of any perceived delay in appraisal for environmental clearance

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news

Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019

Antimicrobial resistance: India needs to enhance framework for monitoring antibiotics

Global procurement focus shifting to monitoring drug manufacturing practices  

Senior judge Deng Xuelin to head China's green tribunal

Recently set up tribunal to guide and coordinate the work of 134 specialist environmental courts set up set up by local governments

'Clean environment has to be a fundamental right'

For more than four years now, Narayan Belbase, an environmental public interest lawyer, has been working towards facilitating and mainstreaming …

Mediation can resolve conflicts related to natural resources: UN

New guide for professionals draws on field experience in conflict resolution

Increasing population, demand for food in Africa need urgent attention: Experts

Policies, mega plans by governments needed as 2023 priorities for action for food systems