COVID-19: We’re in a real-time laboratory of a more sustainable urban future

After coronavirus, a key question emerges: What in essence is a city for? There is a need to look at permanent urban policy choices to make …

Building plan irks MEF

MALAYSIA

Green Belt

EXPORT OF ANIMALS STAYED

Kolkata book fair fair deal?

Neglect robs Saurashtra park of greenery

A wilderness park nurtured carefully by a former maharaja of Bhavnagar looks decrepit today, with its resources plundered and its wildlife dwindling.

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.

FIFA ups its sustainability game

The governing body of world football updates its sustainability policy for the world cup by including changing certain norms for green stadiums, …

Research boon

China

Villagers one up on government in greening project

The balding hills of Jadhera panchayat in Himachal Pradesh are regaining their vegetation, thanks to an unusual village chief

Stop to smell the flowers

Book>> Plants: Why you can’t live without them • by B C Wolverton • Roli books • Rs 495

Getting it all wrong

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 1, 2020)

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

Climate change will cost cities twice as much as rest of the world

Cities act as “heat islands” when natural vegetation is replaced by heat-capturing surfaces such as concrete, asphalt and glass

Divided we stand

Wildlife conservationists and social ecologists are sharply divided despite common goals

In Telangana’s Badanpet, a dumpsite turns into a rock garden, nursery

As of now, this nursery is self-reliant in supplying saplings for horticultural purposes, park development, road median development, greening and …

How to cool a green space? Plant trees downstream of wind

Study in Shanghai looked into impact of tree layouts on microclimate of generic green areas 

India’s rate of reducing carbon footprint with greenery a flat line for years

The country has not been able to raise its carbon emission reduction rate from 12 per cent for the last decade

THAILAND

Reclaiming urban spaces critical for democracy

`Growing food is like printing your own money'

Ron Finley grows food and for this he has been branded as a guerilla gardener, a renegede, an ecolutionist. It all began four years ago, when Ron,…

Zoo sans garden

Charaka and Sushruta reborn

Bangalore University's new BioPark has medicinal gardens that incorporate the near-forgotten science of India's ancient medical treatises