30 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: a continuing disaster

An appraisal by Sunita Narain and Chandra Bhushan, exclusively extracted from the recently released book, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, After 30 Years

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

Bullets for water

During a chance visit to Weliweriya, Sugandh Juneja wonders what took the Sri Lankan government so long to heed people’s complaints against …

Cost of marble

Mining in Rajasthan's Rishab Dev tehsil, the only place in the country that produces green marble, registered 6,681 times growth in 14 years. But …

How did it go wrong?

The corrupt and inefficient among pollution control authorities have surrendered India's groundwater to unscrupulous industrial units

Disasters in the making?

Groundwater contamination in India is verging on disastrous proportions, especially with regard to mercury

Ground reality

Official report confirms presence of toxins in groundwater near Bhopal’s Union Carbide

The right blend

Ethanol, a safer alternative to MTBE, will now be mixed with petrol to curb emissions. Lopamudra Banerjee analyses the impact of this environment-…

Curse of copper

After fouling 10 Madhya Pradesh villages with heavy metals and acid, HCL is set to expand its mine

Printers' devil

The Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court has ordered the relocation of Sanganer's polluting dyeing and printing units within a year. Failure …

Mired in sewage

Temple town Guruvayur adamant on dumping its sewage in backwater villages despite stringent laws, opposition

Centre to identify a laboratory to analyse toxic waste from Union Carbide factory

Order follows Maharashtra Pollution Control Board statement that it cannot predict the impact of burning the toxic waste

War over waste

People of Bengaluru pitch a battle against civic body which has neglected mounting piles of garbage

SC notices on Bhopal gas disaster compensation

Issues notices to Union Carbide, Dow Chemicals on Centre's plea seeking enhancement in compensation 

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

NGT wants groundwater extraction based on EIA only

Tribunal calls for doing away with general permissions given to commercial entities to withdraw groundwater

BHOPAL: the bad dream continues

Bhopal is a metaphor for disaster, industrial and human. It has been the object of much speculation and typically endless litigation. A case …

Stink in the leather belt

Calcutta Leather Complex has shifted from the heart of the city to the outskirts on Supreme Court order, but it fails to treat toxic effluent and …

75% of Kolkata’s groundwater is now brackish due to over-extraction: Study

Impact more in south Kolkata as innumerable new multi-storied buildings there run on groundwater

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 6, 2024)

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

Hosiery havoc

Effluent treatment schemes get underway in a Tamil Nadu town famed for its hosiery units

Widespread poisoning

Distress signal

Karnataka's groundwater situation alarming, says report

Arsenic contaminates

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