Satellites add to light pollution significantly, says new report
Light from space objects scatter over a larger geographic area than sources on Earth
WATCH: The human and economic costs of air pollution
New report pegs economic cost of such pollution at $8 bln / day
Watch: Why air pollution is bad for mental health
High levels of air pollution can drive people to suicide
Simply put: Farm crisis
Chinese officials aided industries to defy pollution rules
President Xi Jinping had last year called for efforts to fight pollution
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 14, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Delhi, your deadly skies are speeding up a silent pandemic — AMR
Every 10% rise in the concentration of PM2.5 was linked with a 1.1 per cent global increase in antibiotic resistance and 43,654 deaths from …
The past about to return
The US-China rivalry will lead to more competition, paving a comeback for a ’brown agenda’ we can ill afford
Poisoned Punjab: DTE reports from state’s villages wracked by water pollution
Cancer and a host of other diseases afflict people living in the Fazilka, Ferozepur, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts of the state, DTE finds
World Environment Day 2023: Cleaning up marine litter; too little, too late?
Around 95 per cent of India’s trade by volume and 68 per cent by value is executed through waterways. Plastics contribute a major portion …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 22, 2023)
People do not know how to survive without insects: Human Development Report 2022
Humanity faces the mind-boggling challenge of growing food and other agricultural products at scale without an abundance of insects, …
Plastic Pollution: Birds on every continent except Antarctica live amid human rubbish
While the blanket term of ‘plastic’ is used to refer to such pollution, many different materials litter the environment, like disposable masks
Climate change denial: ExxonMobil may face trial
Massachusetts High Court case accuses fossil fuel major of decieving investors, breaking laws
Heavy metals emerging as potential threat to public health on urban beaches: Study
The research authors emphasised the necessity of regular pollutant monitoring in the marine environment
Delhi battles for clear skies and lungs
The Capital needs to completely transition to clean fuel and address local sources of pollution
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 5, 2019)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 11, 2019)
Can Ministry of Jal Shakti save Indian rivers?
The new ministry has its work cut out as old ministries’ track record in cleaning and saving river basins hasn’t been great
Livelihoods of 3 bln people living near river systems under threat: Study
Damming, sediment mining, water diversions and groundwater extraction inhibit efforts to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, says report
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 11, 2023)
Sea glass, a treasure formed from trash, is on the decline as single-use plastic takes over
The little treasures on the beach began as discarded trash
Bhopal victims demonstrate in Delhi ahead of Supreme Court hearing on more compensation
Delhi police and CRPF dispersed the group of women survivors and forced them to leave
Upcoming Environmental Assembly opportunity to agree to global treaty on plastics: UN
Marine natural capital as high as $ 2.5 trillion per year is lost due to plastic pollution annually, according to studies
DTE Analysis: Siberia witnesses over 150% rise in air pollution
Estimates suggest emissions due to fires may turn atmospheric carbon sink Siberian taiga forests into source of carbon
