Ruckus over IPCC's global warming data

2022 too short, too far: How close did the world move towards the clean energy dream?

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Economic downturn eats into climate mitigation, adaptation funding: UNCTAD

Reduced green investment will put a spanner in the efforts to fasttrack solutions for climate change. 

Practical matters

Despite growth in renewables, coal-based power will continue to fulfil a large share of India's power needs. Instead of resisting the new …

Trump must confront climate challenge, but will he?

People in the US must turn up the heat on Donald Trump so that he doesn’t water down Obama's environmental agenda

Is Arctic rush worth it?

With Shell's proposed oil exploration in the Chukchi Sea, we revisit the potential impact of exploring oil, natural gas, minerals and fish …

Disasters galore

Gas chambers

Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs

Mapping the dirt

NASA comes up with the most comprehensive view yet of global air pollution

China biggest polluter, says Dutch study

Is tackling climate change economically viable?

King Coal is dethroned in the US – and that's good news for the environment

For the first time ever, natural gas overtook coal as the top source of US electricity generation

Maharashtra power plant agrees to set up desulphurisation unit

MAHAGENCO Koradi will be the second inland freshwater-based FGD installation in India

Whose CARBON hypocrisy?

Should Northern groups campaign to stop fossil fuel funding in the South?

Hot air

Biogas emissions less hazardous than believed

2022: Looking back to move ahead for clean energy transitions

The presence of the goods and services tax impedes the country’s voluntary carbon market

Investors accuse 37 Indian companies of hiding environmental impact information

A group of 105 investors wrote to 1,051 corporate giants across 49 countries on the matter 

Experts propose various technologies for efficient coal usage at CSE Coal Conference

Technologies discussed include HELE, IGCC and CFBC

Building a true green economy

The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth

Biofuels more dangerous than fossil fuels

Setback for clean innovation, boost to fossil fuels

USA’s exit from the Paris Agreement can lead to a higher degree of global temperature rise, with widespread impacts

Pay and take

A High Powered Committee on efficient allocation of natural resources and telecom spectrum puts market above people

At full throttle

A voluntary effort to promote alternative fuel vehicles in the US goes into overdriveby Chandrachur Ghose

COP28 offered important outcomes, but not enough to meet Paris goals

Funds collected for Loss and Damage are too little to compensate for impact of climate disasters

How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable