Community boilers for clusters of small-scale enterprises way forward in curbing industrial pollution

A win-win situation for industries, regulators and community

Microplastics in Nigeria’s Osun River: New study flags alarmingly high levels

A recent study found as many as 22,079 pieces of microplastic in just a litre of water

Simply Put: Editing out the problem

Stubble burning crisis: Why thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR have been slow in adopting biomass co-firing

Only three plants have reported higher quantities of biomass co-firing since December 2022 till August 2023

Simply Put: G20 summit in pollution capital

Simply Put: Pillars of Destruction

Life of Plastic: India’s petrochemical industry is a part of its ‘polymer problem’, says CSE; yet it is encouraged

India plans to position itself as a major exporter of basic petrochemicals, CSE’s new report hints

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 9, 2022)

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

Haryana fined Rs 100 crore: Bandhwari landlfill threat to human health, environment despite repeated orders

National Green Tribunal has issued several orders to Haryana to address the legacy waste problem at the landfill

Accelerated breeding: Plastic waste in urban drains can lead to an explosion of mosquitoes; here’s how

Bisphenol A, a chemical used for softening plastics, shortens the mosquito life cycle and leads to population explosion

Climate change blues: Many lakes to turn green, brown

Air, temperature, precipitation, lake depth and elevation determine the colour, along with factors like algae and silt

Stop making plastic, green activists demand at Busan meet

Activists from Break Free From Plastic, a global movement envisioning a plastic-free future, also called on countries to stop exporting plastic waste

Mahoba mess continues: NGT seeks report on stone mining

Case before green court alleges air, noise pollution    

Plastic: How it became the ‘lubricant of globalisation’

As countries agree to forge an international, legally non-binding treaty to end plastic pollution, a walk down memory land about the rise of the …

Pollution bouncing back in middle and lower Indo-Gangetic Plain: CSE

After a decline in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha are seeing a resurgence in pollution

Centre vs Punjab: Farmers miss out on incentive to not burn stubble

Thrice GoI has returned Punjab’s proposal of giving Rs 2,500 per acre to small, marginal farmers even as they demand Rs 6,000 per acre &…

South Africa: Greenhouse gas emissions up 10% in 17 years

Developing countries like South Africa emit much less per capita than developed economies; hence chances of emissions shooting up is higher

Eighth Global Nitrogen Conference focuses on sustainable development goals

Assessing and managing nitrogen compounds sustainably will be crucial to achieve the 17 UN SDGs targeted for 2030

Lake Victoria: CSE lays out strategy to manage water quality in Tanzania

Startegy for Mwanza city suggests greater focus on Nyashishi river needed, connecting households to sewer lines and waste segregation

Rising air pollution in West Bengal no longer a Kolkata syndrome

Lack of adequate monitoring of polluting industries beyond Kolkata among causes behind the trend, claim activists

CSE analysis finds bias towards dust control due to CPCB assessment for funding

PM 10 levels considered for disbursing funds; Barely any difference in PM 2.5 levels between NCAP and non-NCAP cities 

Diwali 2022: Delhi air ‘very poor’, can worsen to ‘severe’

Farm stubble burning increased in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan; Firecracker ban in Delhi goes up in smoke too

Marine litter menace: Short-term solutions not enough; need robust policy

Effective enforcement of rules and penalty against defaulters is required 

Air pollution deaths: What troubles Delhi today may haunt Mumbai tomorrow

South Asian cities extremely vulnerable to PM 2.5 pollution exposure, related mortality, say experts 

Poorer countries more exposed to fire-induced air pollution: Study

The exposure levels were particularly high in several hotspots like Central Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and Siberia