Teaching children they will inherit the earth

In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …

Foul delight

Chicken laced with arsenic

Forest matters

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 19, 2024)

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

How Indigenous cultural practices can improve waste management in communities

Applying cultural practices is not common among community members because of the impacts of colonisation

Increase in offences under 4 of 7 environment-related acts in 2022: NCRB 

Rajasthan, with the maximum number (30 per cent) of wildlife crime cases in the country, recorded a 50% increase in such offences

How the Centre is diluting green clearance norms

In the name of streamlining process to get environmental clearances, the Centre has turned these rules into mere formality

Stressed woods

Management ofprotected areas has been one of the principal bones of contention between the various shades of interested opinions in the country. …

Simply put: Number of scientists advising NGT reduced to 2 from 20

Head-banging

9th CMS Vatavaran begins in Delhi

A total of 119 films to be screened during the five-day environmental film festival

Net profit

Jharkhand taps its dam reservoirs and ponds to boost fish production as well as livelihood

Heaving under a heavy burden

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

World Press Freedom Day 2024: 44 environmental journalists have been murdered in last 15 years, UN report finds

Environmental reporting has become perilous; journalists faced 50 attacks a year between 2009 and 2023 in all regions of the world on average

Here’s why Centre’s new SOP may damage Environment Impact Assessment regime

MoEF&CC’s new guidelines no deterrent; rather, they send a message to violators to ‘pay their way through’

Neither voluntary nor compliant

India's first ever Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection, unveiled amid much hype on March 13 in New Delhi, has turned …

NGT orders shut 15 chemical industrial units in Haryana for flouting norms

Experts express concern, point at state pollution control board for poor implementation

World Environmental Health Day: Green issues need to be actively taught in schools, universities

Supreme Court in 1991 had directed environment be taught compulsorily at every level of education

When climate crisis meets human rights conundrum: Decoding death curves of environment, land avengers

As many as 1,539 environment, land right defenders were killed between 2012 and 2020   

‘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 …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 20, 2023)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 5, 2023)

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

India may lose 3-10% of its GDP annually by 2100 due to climate change

India’s poverty rate may rise by 3.5 per cent in 2040 due to climate change

Simply put: Safety and unemployment

Sustainable farming systems of Bangladesh, Japan globally recognised

The sites include Bangladesh’s floating gardens and three areas in Japan