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The age of ecodesign: Indian steps into the era of sustainable business development
Clean fuels
....should come cheaper not dearer. But obviously someone does not care
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Solar venture
COSTA RICA
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Women grow food basket
Maharashtra district revives an old farm practice and tackles drought
Groundwater contamination due to arsenic, fluoride not being effectively addressed: NGT
CGWA has a total of 16 chemical laboratories in India, of which 10 labs are NABL-certified where 27,500 to 32,500 water samples are tested every year
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 6, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Stolen river: NGT orders Jindal Steel to pay Rs 2 crore for ‘destroying’ Odisha nullah
JSPL, based out of Jindal Nagar in Angul, had interfered with nature by changing the natural course of the Kurdabahali Nullah that cannot be …
Encroachment, concretisation, pollution killing Mandakini river near Chitrakoot
Political leaders abetting the Mandakini’s death by building hotels along its banks in Chitrakoot
Africa’s green revolution initiative has faltered: Why other ways must be found
There has been a 25% increase from 2019 to 2020 in the number of severely undernourished people in the world
NGT refuses to allow commercial construction on Shimla railway land
A proposal allowing the construction of a hotel and other commercial structures on land in Shimla’s railway warehouse has been rejected
Power demand is back and it is not all green
Coal-fired power plants continue to play a major role in global energy sector DESPITE a climate emergency
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 18, 2022)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 17, 2022)
Not so green: Developing countries raise clean energy targets, but implementation remains incomplete
Disparity between long-term objectives and short-term execution strategies indicates that policymakers still have a lot of work to do
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 10, 2022)
Why producing CBG, LBG, hydrogen, methanol from biogas can be beneficial
Unavailability of biogas in bulk, absence of infrastructure to generate & market these fuels main hurdles
NGT questions clearances; halts mining at Shaliganga Nallah in Kashmir
The Shaliganga Nallah in Budgam is a feeding channel for the Hokersar Wetland Reserve, an internationally declared Ramsar site and home …
Millet might: Here is how Odisha can succeed in reviving these cereals lost to the Green Revolution
Odisha’s mission to bring millets back to its fields and plates needs greater marketing support and promotion beyond tribal areas
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 27, 2022)
How not to solve the climate change problem
Most effective way to address the climate change problem is to decarbonize the economies of the world’s nations
Taking off from CoP26: Is Green Grids Initiative the way forward for India?
The implementation of the initiative comes at an increased environmental cost due to waste disposal issues