Simply Put: Delete the future

Sparring in the countryside

Green Revolution lab Jaunti shows agriculture in crisis now

Five decades after the green revolution, Down To Earth visited the village from where it all started, to assess the agrarian crisis …

Home made leave-in conditioner using flax seeds with Kirti Negi Bajoria

Making your own personal hygiene products is easier than you think. Kirti Negi Bajoria, a professional who is on a sabbatical, makes a lot of …

Will Paul Ehrlich's prediction finally come true?

The Green Revolution may have prevented the fate that was forecasted for a world bursting at the seams and unable to feed itself. But unlimited …

Concrete in Extreme Environments

Contemporary events have shown that buildings designed to modern day codes need to be able to resist accidental extreme actions such as impact, …

Environment-Friendly Products-Adapt Green Now: Green Marketing

Economic growth via production and consumption threatens peaceful life of human beings on the earth

Green Grades: Can Information Save the Earth?

Consumers are confronted with a confusing array of environmental ratings on products that range from refrigerators to shampoos. Is the …

Construction boom will make cities unliveable: Centre for Science and Environment

Non-profit calls for support for green buildings programmes which should not be reduced to a sham to protect realty profits

Worrisome trend: Every third climate case yields unfavourable outcome

The highest number of climate litigations were filed from Latin America and the Caribbean

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2019)

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

US engineers design heating patches that can be sewn into clothes

They claim the patches can replace heating systems and save 47 % of global energy used for indoor heating

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

Courtyard as cold island

With a little twist in traditional design, Akshay Urja Bhawan in Haryana provides a model for affordable green buildings

India’s G20 Presidency: As a major emitter, bloc is obliged to address climate change, sustainable development

Climate finance remains an area of contention within the G20 as there is an uneven distribution of financial resources to countries that are most …

Economic downturn eats into climate mitigation, adaptation funding: UNCTAD

Reduced green investment will put a spanner in the efforts to fasttrack solutions for climate change. 

CSE slams green building rating body for misleading public

CSE analysis showed several LEED-rated IT buildings and office buildings are failing to meet the official benchmark for energy performance; full …

G-20 spent nearly $700 billion supporting fossil fuels in 2021

Fossil support spending increased by 16% in 2021

Cool cover

New panel can make buildings reflect heat, cut cooling cost

Fuel from algae

Environmental & social responsibility of financial institutions must go beyond green initiatives 

Most Indian banks and financial institutions do not have any environmental and social safeguard mechanisms

Ireland is past its ‘Celtic Tiger’ days; economic growth is good and we want it to be sustainable: Roderic O’Gorman

Down To Earth talks to Irish Green Party politician and Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’ …

Can plastic packaging be avoided? This initiative shows the way

Interweaving sustainability, responsibility and social welfare, some enterprises offer and induce customers to choose and become eco-conscious

Court digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 6-10)

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

How green are India's power plants?

Green rating of coal-based power plants in India by CSE offers starting insights into the sector