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
Road to 2030: Why sand & dust storms pose challenge to achieving multiple SDGs
Halfway to 2030, the situation is dire since the world is not on track and the progress on key goals, especially SDG 13 (on climate action), has …
Sewage discharge in Ganga: NGT orders Uttarakhand PCB to take criminal action against officials concerned
Just half of total sewage generated daily in 13 districts treated properly before being dumped in river
Uttar Pradesh takes a positive step towards effective industrial emissions monitoring
Uttar Pradesh Climate Change Authority, Directorate of Environment recommends CSE proposal on CEMS certification system
Seabed mining could sink the fishing industry
If unchecked, deep sea mining could impact fish stocks and Pacific Island communities along with it.
Run-up to Ottawa: Arctic a ‘hemispheric sink’ for chemicals & plastics; 13 million people in region at risk, says report
Document calls for Just Transition framework; reconnecting with traditional values of Arctic indigenous peoples
Non-sewered sanitation system in Odisha | DTE Water series
Odisha’s Faecal Sludge and Septage Management has become a model for other states to replicate
Simply Put: Global plastic treaty
Desert dust storms carry human-made toxic pollutants and the health risk extends indoors
Deserts now increasingly border built structures around the world, including urban dwellings
Study underlines air pollution link to increased risks of pre-term birth, birth weight and pregnancy complications
Singleton pregnancies in 2000-2015 in Kansas, US examined
Waste pickers play a key role in the fight against plastic pollution — insights from South Africa into how their voices can be heard
South Africa’s approach to waste picker integration demonstrates how they can be protected
Ash pond breach in Odisha’s Jharsuguda destroys cropland; causes pollution in Hirakud Dam
Farmers not hopeful of receiving compensation as their counterparts are yet to receive it for the collapse of an ash pond belonging to …
Microplastics found in Nile River’s tilapia fish: new study
This all has serious implications for human health, as people catch and eat the fish, which introduces those microplastics and associated …
Tiny water-walking bugs provide scientists with insights on how microplastics are pushed underwater
Studying how small particles and organisms disperse in water could help scientists figure out how to prevent and mediate microplastic pollution. &…
Globally, 21 million tonnes of plastics leaked into environment last year: OECD
Report released two days before Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution for international treaty on plastics
West Bengal platform demands green focus in poll agendas, releases charter of environmental issues
Politicians acknowledge environmental shortcomings but deflect responsibility to public; BJP MP advises against expecting significant action from …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 9, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
As told to Parliament (December 18, 2023): CSE finds coal-fired power plants around Delhi not complying with emission norms
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Exposing inequity & injustice of India’s single-use plastic ban
Ban targets downstream users of plastic while producers continue to operate with minimal restrictions
Used heavy duty vehicles major polluters, UN releases recommendation ahead of environment assembly
HDVs projected to significantly grow in numbers with increasing economic activities, report estimates
Bare act
Even after five decades of enacting a law, India is nowhere close to preventing industries from dumping untreated toxic effluents in the open
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 6, 2024)
DTE Coverage: Just transition in petrochemicals
Down To Earth reports from Gujarat's Bharuch district
Japan to release radioactive Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific Ocean after IAEA’s approval
Critics say that more studies are required to show how this discharge would affect aquatic life
Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up — but manufacturers are fighting back
Governments have achieved disappointingly little so far and even the UN treaty on plastic pollution is unlikely to produce fundamental change
