All for clean air

Just bend it

Pollution under control tests for diesel vehicles are a big farce

Rigged in India

Pollution control is bypassed with typical ingenuity

Shelling out bucks

Timely action

Oil spills over

How the planet pays for fashion

The production of a kilogram of cotton takes up around 10,000 litre to 20,000 litre of water

Will Delhi become a gas chamber again?

The national capital has been in the ‘severe’ AQI category since Diwali night

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 22, 2019)

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

Plastic pollution threatens tourism dependent Bali

While more than 80 per cent of the Indonesian Island’s economy relies on tourism, its beaches and the water are strewn with plastic

Imagining an ideal Green Hour

Green Hour can be used for a transition to a clean environment and a healthier lifestyle

Why Delhi continues to choke year after year

Sunita Narain and Anumita Roychowdhury explain the current air pollution situation in Delhi

Dirty air dooms Indians to early death

New analysis of global burden of diseases shows very high rate of increase in early deaths from particulate and ozone pollution. Over a quarter …

Clean cook stoves and climate mitigation: Tara Ramnathan explains

Down To Earth is at COP 22 in Marrakech, Morocco. We speak to Tara Ramnathan, prgramme director at Nexleaf Analytics, a company making clean …

China's fight against air pollution

As winter approaches, China, which is known for its high air pollution levels, is investing in technology to reduce smog

Air pollution lowering life expectancy of Indians

Vivek Chattopadhay, CSE’s clean air campaigner, talks about daily struggles that people have to go through due to pollution

Clean up or close down

Threatened with closure on grounds of pollution, Palam Potteries adopted a waste minimisation method that brought down its smoke emissions and …

Fishy deaths

Transparent monitoring: Maharashtra pollution control board begins sharing emissions data on public domain

Sharing of CEMS data by state pollution control boards & committees in the public domain was mandated by Supreme Court in 2017

Reviving NCR’s air: CAQM submits action plan to NGT, mostly in line with CSE recommendations

The action plan incorporates the updating of emission inventories and source apportionment studies across the entire NCR

Coastal invasion

Oil waste litters Gujarat seafront

Dust, high temperatures bring Delhi’s air quality down to 'poor'

The Aravalli range plays a critical role in checking sand migration from the Thar Desert to Delhi-NCR; but they now stand degraded

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 3, 2020)

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

Officials unmoved by court order

Officials unmoved by court order

Shocking revelation by environment minister: 16 rivers in Karnataka polluted

Root of the problem lies in discharge of waste from 30 cities and towns directly into these rivers, minister notes