Green Scientist Award

Peanuts for ecology

India spends very little on Science for Ecological Security. And then spends it poorly

The god of ecological things

A belief in tradition

It was a unique ceremony for a unique award given to a unique rural community of India. In what is perhaps the first ceremony of its kind, …

Deconstructing science

Nature uses lean sources to get work done. The environmental crises we face today are a result of ignoring this simple paradigm for two centuries.…

Science for ecology

Down To Earth and the Centre for Science and Environment announce the winner of the 2001 Green Scientist Award. In the exercise to rate the …

Let’s talk

On February 24, Centre for Science and Environment raised the curtains for the Anil Agarwal Dialogues on green clearances. The two-day conclave …

REVIVING WISDOM

Rainwater is abundant in India. So is its mismanagement. This has led to a human-made water scarcity. The only way to solve modern India's water …

One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians

We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price

The US and us

Ignorance and arrogance make for good floods

Fuelling a debate

Ethanol is a clean and cheap fuel blend. But the Indian government is impeding the use of ethanol when it is callously promoting cancer-causing MTBE

India identifying, defining forests wrongly, say experts at Anil Agarwal Dialogue

The urgent agenda today is to reinvent forest management for the future; so that India can build a wood-based future, but still protect the …

Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2019: The order of change

To resolve environmental problems, we need a change in mindset, empirical studies, implementation, monitoring and follow-ups, says Justice Madan …

Embrace of an unforgettable conservation crusade lingers on

Impacts of Chipko are still visible in the state after four decades.

Ganga and the death of its crusader

Read Down To Earth’s upcoming issue for a detailed analysis of the current state of the Ganga

Madhya Pradesh government cracks down on Indira Sagar dam oustees

They were staging jal satyagraha to demand land compensation and reduction in reservoir water level

Jal Satyagraha forces Madhya Pradesh government to relent

People affected by Omkareshwar dam to get land in lieu of land; water level of reservoir reduced

Himalayan blunders

The poor and the environment: lessons from energy crisis

EWS quota: Delhi government to crack whip on private hospitals

All private hospitals should have beds reserved for poor, says an activist

'I cannot be a mute spectator to the carnage of Ganga'

As Uttarakhand grapples with the task of repair and restoration, octogenarian environmentalist G D Agarwal's fast to free Ganga of dams continues.…

‘Brick kiln workers in India underpaid and exploited’

India employs double the number of labourers than China, yet produces one-fifth of China’s annual brick production of 1 trillion

Brick kilns destroying fertile top soil

65 per cent of bricks produced in India are manufactured in the Gangetic plains, which have one of the world’s most fertile alluvial soils

Drought but why

It is time we understood that since drought is human-made it can be reversed