Heaving under a heavy burden

HEAVY METALS AND ENVIRONMENT·Mohammad Athar and Shashi B Vohora· Wiley Eastern Limited

Roots of the rut

Book>> Here on Earth: A New Beginning by Tim Flannery • Penguin • Rs 700  

Environment for change

Shifting over to sustainable agriculture requires a new climate for convincing and aiding farmers to change the existing practices

Superbugs pose alarming threat to public health: EU report

The report finds high drug-resistance in three common zoonotic bacteria, which can be transferred to humans through food or environment

Saving Krishna's forests

This is the story of Friends of Vrindavan, a unique experiment in conservation, which brings to attention the important role that India's …

Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago and caused massive sudden climate change

The ozone layer was destroyed, electrical storms raged across the tropics, solar winds generated spectacular light shows, Arctic air poured …

Making the right choice

Green films of all hues

Film>>Report>>

Summer-borns are healthier

The haunting nuclear ghost

Saving Venice

ChevronTexaco on trial

October 21, 2003. High-level corporate lawyers from ChevronTexaco sit in the same packed muggy courtroom as bare-breasted Amazonian men and women …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 4, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Drowing in dung in Holland

A Vision from the South Mercio Games, Chandra Kirana, Somi Songanbele, Rajiv Vora Publisher: International Books of Utrecht Price: Not stated

The credo of an economist

Long-term economic growth is impossible through any act that pits humankind against the environment

Disappointing and poorly done

There is no merit in the Morse committee's philosophy which can be summed up as 'do nothing till you've done everything'

A bean full of problems

In utter disregard of environmental and health safety norms, the Indian government has okayed a deal for import of soybean to satisfy oil …

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

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

Water-sensitive innovations to transform health of slums and environment

A five-year project announced today will implement an innovative water-sensitive approach tailored to informal settlements. The goal is to …

Trying to switch

Expose the exposome

Human body maintains a record of all environmental exposures, from pollutants to diet and stress. Analysing the record, dubbed exposome, can help …

Pune citizens keep watchful eye on their city

Concerned residents of the city have formed groups to ensure the municipal authorities take care to keep the city clean, green and functioning.

World Environmental Health Day: One Health approach is key in preventing pandemics

A healthier environment can reduce global burden of disease by a quarter

Should free trade include toxic dumping?

Many European nations have banned the free passage of toxic waste between borders, despite the common-market concept.

New viruses on the prowl

Humans have exposed themselves to a host of new viral diseases by playing around too much with the environment