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 …

'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 …

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

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

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 …

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

Interoceanic Nicaragua canal sparks protests

Extensive dredging will threaten tropical rainforests and wildlife habitats in the region

Murdering the Mekong river

The Lao and Thai governments plan to build mainstream dams and irrigation take offs on the river. This will convert this mighty waterway into …

Check Jharkhand’s degrading environment

Unscientific mining has caused rampant environmental degradation in the state in the absence of proper monitoring