How to reduce the use of Air Conditioners: Ep4 New Vastu with Ashok B Lall
When air is hot and humid, our natural reaction is to turn on the air conditioner. ACs are a necessary evil that guzzle electricity produced by …
Five States: Too many concerns, too few commitments
The 2017 Assembly elections across five states—Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur-have brought to the surface the …
Environment Reader for Universities
The book is totally based on the UGC syllabus for environmental studies for undergraduates; and it comes to you from CSE, an NGO whose primary …
Living Skeletons
While prolonged drought and untimely floods destroyed crops, the emerging food crisis has often become a full-scale humanitarian disaster due to …
Dirty air and mortality: the insidious link
Exposure to PM2.5 accounted for about 4.2 million deaths from heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, chronic lung disease and respiratory …
Engulfed in Toxins: Delhi Citizens fight against Okhla Waste to Energy Plant
Since 2009, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar, a residential colony in Delhi, have been fighting against a waste-to-energy plant that uses dirty …
Finding a way through prolonged haze and policy maze
As cities around the world saw smog-ridden days and unabated carbon emission in 2016, Down To Earth looks into the scale of problem and solutions …
Living Dead
More than three decades after the Bhopal gas leak killed a few thousand people and affected about 500,000 others, the struggle continues for …
Why the US should quit the Paris Agreement
Trump's presidency would be extremely detrimental to the Agreement and destroy the climate convention negotiated over the past 25 years
Climate Catastrophe and Resilience
About 11,000 extreme weather events killed more than 528,000 people and caused economic losses of around US$ 3.08 trillion between 1996 and 2015. …
Seeds of green culture
from shoes made of old tyres in Ghana to roads built from recycled plastic in Kenya, 20 environment friendly start-ups from developing countries …
The return of Avian Flu
Bird flu returned to haunt India, only a month after the country was declared free from avian influenza (H5N1) on September 5, 2016
Auto-makers asked to give details of pollution levels in India
Road Transport ministry in a bid to curb vehicular pollution has asked auto manufacturers to furnish all the details of air pollutants as well as …
23 countries just got energy efficiency report cards - and they're almost all flunking
The most valuable tool we have to meet the world’s growing energy demand while reducing greenhouse gas production could be figuring out how …
The world at risk
When roads are no longer passable and bridges are destroyed, last-mile delivery of aid to disaster-hit people becomes a challenge
Asiatic lions left in the lurch
The Centre has refused to grant any money for long-term lion conservation, citing lack of funds
An 8-million-year-old mysterious date with monsoon (e-book)
Weather scientists, writers, historians and academicians explore India's most intimate yet least understood climate phenomenon
Icons of freedom
Animal fat, salt, minor forest produce, indigo and khadi are icons evoked by reference to the freedom movement. How do they fare today?
International migration flows: tracking the trends
In 2015, the world saw the highest levels of forced displacement recorded since World War II. There was a dramatic surge in the number of refugees,…
70 years and waiting
India had walked the difficult road to independence but it is yet to cast off the chains that dwarf the spirit of freedom. We are yet to be free …
In Parliament on August 9, 2016
Here is a round-up of debates on environmental and developmental issues that took place during the Parliament (Monsoon) Session
From drought to deluge: impact of monsoon flooding across Asia
China declared 2016 monsoon floods as the second-costliest on record. Heavy monsoon rains after two straight years of drought also caught India …
A green idea can change your life
Ready to start a business but worried about the impact it might have on the environment? Check out these eco-friendly business ideas perfect …
How the world tackles air pollution?
A look at how countries around the world are using innovative ideas to curb pollution and improve health
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