When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Paints from potatoes

Colours of Nature

An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants

Disciplining the enfants terrible of industry

Small is not always beautiful: Small-scale industries in India account for only 35 per cent of the country's industrial production, but their …

Fighting for a cause

K N Narayana Pillai, 75, is an ordinary citizen who has been suffering because of pollution from an industrial unit operating beside his house. …

Paints that prey

A compound used in paints could be responsible for dolphin deaths in US

Fading colours

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh (Read full article)

Inaction discourages positive change in industry

DANGER zone

If no action is taken soon, a major ecological disaster is waiting to strike Panipat

A Sunrise industry

Natural dye business survives on exporters and the local carpet industry

No business drive

Research efforts on natural colours are not helping the traditional industry

Searching for Roots

India's wealth of flora and fauna provide a rainbow of natural dyes

In short

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 24, 2019)

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

Scientists transform black soot into a boon for water purification

Black carbon soot is emitted from gas and diesel engines, coal-fired power plants and other processes that involve burning of fossil fuel

Dye-maker accused of dumping acidic effluents

Cowherds in a Gujarat district accuse a local dye manufacturer of dumping a poisonous and acidic substance, which resulted in the maiming and …

The small big polluter

Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective …

Antifouling paints by Australian yacht clubs release toxic elements into Swan river

Home truths

Have technology, will survive

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry

Mere plans

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

The dirty dozens

Lungful of poison

The small big polluter

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment

Home truths

Most popular paints in India contain high quantities of lead, a toxin especially dangerous to children. The Centre for Science and Environment&…