Jobs and the environment

Fine the rulers

Beyond The Billion

If post-Independence leaders of India had ensured full literacy, a solution would have been in sight for a lot of problems. Population, for one. …

Probing a pesticide tragedy

Laboratory tests nail the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. The state government sets up an inquiry committee

Forgetting science

COVID-19: Health ministry says less, hides more on cases, deaths

ICMR doing a rethink on HCQ as a preventive drug, says Gangakhedkar

35 years of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Anil Agarwal on what happened that fateful night

Anil Agarwal, founder of Centre for Science and Environment and founder editor of Down To Earth, was in Bhopal immediately after the tragedy. …

These saints put their lives at stake for Ganga and more are lined up

A list of activists who gave up food and water to ensure the river is clean

Ganga's minimum flow notification too vague to be implemented: Scientists

The Centre’s notification aims to ensure that the river has minimum required environmental flow of water even after it is diverted by …

URBAN WATER HARVESTING SINGAPORE

Rain in a concrete jungle Short of water, Singapore harvests the rain that falls on most of its land despite industrialisation. The city has …

Holding water

The EK Panch Ek Talaab movement has ushered in a new era for the people of Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol and Mandsaur districts

RURAL WATER HARVESTING MADHYA PRADESH

1 + 1 = 11 People have responded overwhelmingly with money and voluntary labour to a government call to renovate water harvesting structures. …

Remembering Anil Agarwal — Forget Malthus: upside of population growth

Increasing population density can also lead to better community management of common property resources, if community property rights are …

The people's environmentalist

Anupam Mishra nurtured India's environmental movement and environmentalists

Can polluting brick kilns be cleaned up?

India is world's second largest producer of bricks, but the environmental cost of producing cheap bricks is huge

International pressure and the civil society

Devolution has to happen. It will

How to plant trees for development

There is no economic value seen in forests, but there is value seen in the development project for which forestland is required

Innovative administrator

IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people

Greener Shades

The Indian pulp and paper industry reacts positively to the first Green Rating Project conducted by Centre for Science and Environment

Cook stoves: the politics and the quest for solutions

What should be the approach to deal with local health impacts of cooking fuels that would also inform India's national and global policy?

Short-lived pollutants: the other part of climate agenda

CO2 mitigation has to be conjoined with methane and black carbon mitigation to keep temperature rise below 2°C

Cause of worry for developing nations

Focus on black carbon may lead to developed nations shifting burden of tackling climate change to the less affluent

Black carbon's impact on ecosystems

It is known to alter melt cycle of glaciers and interfere with rainfall patterns

Does short-lived black carbon have long-term climate impact?

Comparing global warming potential of CO2 and black carbon has its limitations