Children make up for 80 per cent of deaths attributed to climate change

But they are the most ignored in the climate change discourse

Proposed Tata plant in Tanzania threat to flamingo habitat

Solar threat to Sambhar

A mega solar power plant at Sambhar lake may spell doom for its fragile ecology and flamingoes

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Natural disasters: why are we always so unprepared?

Government agencies merely shift blame but take no action to plan and prepare ahead

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Travails of a waterscape

Mismanaged solid waste in Tanzania’s Mwanza city is polluting Lake Victoria

Critical for Mwanza to invest in source separation of waste, developing infrastructure for ensuring 100% collection coverage and efficient …

The vanishing lakes

There is more water than land in north Bihar. The rivers that ramble down from the Himalaya feed numerous depressions scattered all over the …

Aravallis undermined

EU agrees on cleaner rivers, lakes

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

Rs 10 crore for conserving Lonar lake

Larvae found in sewage discovered in the water body formed by meteoric crater

Eco-cabs join Chandigarh's public transport service

Plans afoot to increase demand for cycle rickshaws, reduce use of motor vehicles

Turtles in trouble

Faulty lake development design is pushing rare Bostami turtle of Tripura to extinction in its only known refuge—the Kalyan Sagar lake

Contamination

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 29-July 3, 2020)

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

Rising sea levels prompt South Florida to demand statehood

The rising levels threaten to submerge living spaces, national parks and a nuclear reactor site

Uttarakhand disaster was result of extreme rains and haphazard development: report

National Institute of Disaster Management suggests guidelines and action plans for development activities after compilation of comprehensive data

Interoceanic Nicaragua canal sparks protests

Extensive dredging will threaten tropical rainforests and wildlife habitats in the region

Choked on salt

Illegal salt making threatens Sambhar Lake’s ecology

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms

Pollutants flood Lake Victoria

Roses for Valentine's day in the UK threaten Kenya's lake Naivasha