Paper to paper

Bhutan's first wastepaper recycling plant

Chile

Bacteria from rotten pomegranade can help produce cellulose

Bacterial strain from rotten pomegranate promises to help produce bacterial cellulose not just on a large scale but 4 times cheaper than made …

Environmental governance in India pushes industries to face stricter pollution norms

The last one year of environmental regulation in India has shown many improvements. But a lot remains to be done

Paper chase

PAPER is important, but so are forests. The proposal of the ministry for environment and forests to allow the paper industry to establish …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 21, 2022)

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

Paper capers

A debate crackles over a government decision to allow paper plantations to remain in degraded forests

Common platform

An environmental rating project provides a meeting ground for the Indian pulp and paper sector

The big idea for change: bamboo as grass

Scientists from Gujarat institute develop biodegradable paper supercapacitor from seaweed

This supercapacitor can fully charge a device within 10 seconds

Wonder weed

A river polluted

Doting on dung

Kenyan ingenuity uses elephant dung for making paper

Testing time

In Karnataka, a lesson in water scarcity

Profitable in every way

Scientists develop method to use jute for making paper pulp

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 11, 2020)

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

Why farmers are abandoning totapuri mango

The price of the totapuri mango has crashed due to low demand for its pulp, leaving farmers to dump produce on roads

Things fall apart: why do the ecosystems we depend on collapse?

From fisheries to forestry, there's a pattern to collapsing ecosystems and industries. If we can predict them, maybe we can avoid the damage.

Planters devils?

The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire

Aiding agenda

When bloom spells doom

Bamboo flowering in Orissa without fresh procurement threatens to drive plant to extinction

India's biggest tomato district surrenders to cheap Chinese pulp

Farmers of Chittoor and nearby areas in Andhra Pradesh are struggling to get minimum returns from the crop

Here's how many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags

Looking at raw materials, manufacturing, transport, and eventual disposal, researchers calculate greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, …

Letters

No Kodak moments any more