Scientist discover bacteria that can clean plastic pollution from lakes

Study across 29 Scandinavian lakes finds bacteria that feeds on plastic compounds

Simply Put: Pesticides, toxins in natural sources of water

Clean fun

Cool, but polluting

Threat from agriculture

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Poor air quality can affect pregnancy, raise death risk

High level of pollutants in air is responsible for one of every nine global deaths, totaling over seven million premature deaths a year, …

74 tonnes of microplastics fell from the air on Auckland in 2020

Scientists have been discussing the possibility that microplastic mists and clouds exist in the atmosphere but this is the first study to …

Single-use plastic ban: Environment lessons India can learn from East Africa

Import, manufacturing or sale of single-use plastic bags in Kenya could earn a fine of $40,000 for companies and $500 for individuals

Microplastics detected in human blood for the very first time

Scientists found tiny particles of microplastics in almost 80 per cent of the people tested. The discovery shows the particles can travel around …

The poison we breathe

Anumita Roychowdhury, head of clean air and sustainable mobility programme at CSE, on what needs to be done to clean the air in our cities

Needed: a spine for Delhi government

There are two sets of rules for polluters. The rich and the powerful can pollute without fear, but the poor have to bear the brunt of their …

Delhi smog is back

Cocktail of pollutants and severe smog episodes can be deadly in Delhi and NCR even as Delhi government delays finalising air quality index

Faulty data, poor monitoring

A trading scheme for air pollutants could face the usual problem of implementation

No check on effluents

Poisoned Punjab: Mystery illnesses haunt this Fazilka hamlet dependent on canal water

Down To Earth ground report finds around 30 cancer deaths in 12 years in Burj Mohar in Fazilka district 

‘Nitrogen dioxide pollution is a growing issue for South Asian cities’

Part 1: Health Effects Institute researcher Pallavi Pant speaks about air pollution challenges faced by south Asian cities

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Controls off for diesel generators

Key environmental clause deleted from rules governing diesel generator sets barely six months after implementation

Breathing easy

Cairo embraces CNG in a big way

Clean air drive

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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 8, 2020)

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

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