Dynamics of noise

Researchers in the University of Wales are collaborating with European partners to improve the computer models which predict how a new …

Prodigal sons

Industry is wasting the environment. But the courts and the civil society will have none of it

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2020)

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

Instant quality check of rivers

Electronic sensors to monitor pollutants in Yamuna, Ganga

Lower the din

IIM-Lucknow analyzes pollution board

Manpower shortage, lack of coordination are main problems  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 17, 2020)

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

Delhi loses air pollution control race to Beijing: Centre for Science and Environment

Delhi faces the same challenge of cleaning up its air as Beijing, but lacks aggression and stringency of action needed to protect public health

Simply Put: Growing up in North India

Chhattisgarh green board to make access to emissions data more user-friendly

Last year, CSE had found that only 19 of 35 pollution control boards were displaying emissions data in the public domain

Gaurav Gogoi to table bill for changing air pollution law

Congress MP said updating 1981 legislation concerning air pollution was need of the hour

Officials unmoved by court order

Officials unmoved by court order

ONGCignores green rules

Oil company did not restore abandoned well sites in Tripura

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 30, 2020)

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

Diwali this year caused more air pollution, but made less noise

Particulate matter exceeded standard almost ten times; NO2 and S02 levels also registered increase

74% brick kilns in Delhi-NCR have not shifted to cleaner technology

Two-thirds of brick kilns in Delhi-NCR are unlikely to meet the deadline to upgrade to a cleaner firing technology

Brick kilns shifting to cleaner technology, but progress is slow

An order by the Central Pollution Control Board in June asked brick kilns across India to shift to a cleaner and more efficient “induced …

The man who upheld our right to breathe time and again

Outgoing Chief Justice T S Thakur’s statements show his concern over the deteriorating air quality in the national capital

Implementation of this efficient pollution monitoring system caught in delays

Continuous Emission Monitoring System is a set of equipment that monitors and sends emission data to pollution control agencies every 15 minutes

Punjab extends time for brick kiln conversion to September

Those operating kilns with older technology still have to pay a fine depending upon the capacity of kiln under the polluter pay principle

Simply Put: Udta Punjab pollution panel

Air pollution reduces life expectancy more than war, diseases: Study

Global air pollution shortened life expectancy by an average of three years

How date palm seeds can remove toxins from the environment

Date seed oil could clean up polluted water and war-ravaged sites

Bengal stops funds to pollution board

Fishy danger