Tiles made from plastic and fly ash: A waste-to-wealth approach
Tiles manufactured using fly ash and plastics are cost-effective and help save irrigable topsoil
Small distributed solar projects not eligible for subsidy, Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam clarifies
The clarification created a negative sentiment among investors who were already upset with the low purchase rate in the state
Why rooftop solar and storage offers a viable future for India
Energy storage represents a huge economic opportunity for India. Concerted strategies could help India meet its emission reduction targets
There is a demand-supply mismatch in solar manufacturing. Is India making the right choice?
Lack of financing support, inconsistent government policy, lack of scale and competition from low-priced Chinese imports have undercut India’…
Rise in Chinese solar PV module price: The implications on global solar growth story
Rising prices may force state-owned power giants in China to push projects into 2022; delays may make 2021 first year of negative growth in …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 14, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
How to sell solar panels? How about adding some colour
Traditional panels deep black for absorbing light; New tech with photonic glass both efficient and attractive
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 11, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 28, 2020)
Only 5% of India’s coal-based thermal power capacity meets SO2 emissions norms: CSE report
None of the plants in the eastern states were found to be compliant
Climate hypocrisy? Germany’s coal-fuelled power sector more polluting than India, China currently
Germany’s measures, while possibly a temporary reaction to an abrupt reduction in Russian gas supplies, call into serious question its …
Himalayan plunder: Manipur landslides raise environmental questions
Considering the long-term nature of the ongoing project, it is necessary to adopt regulatory and monitoring mechanisms at the vulnerable slopes
Early warning a must to cope with floods
People along the Brahmaputra were prepared last week, while in the weeks before that, people in Kerala, Nagaland and Assam were not
Current distress
Six states, 30 villages, 13,000 kilometres. Down To Earth travelled to some of the most remote villages of the country to assess India's progress …
Class is out, smart is in
For a city like Delhi to become truly smart, there must be focus on essential systems like transport, power, water procurement, distribution and …
Bihar to delist solar and thermal projects worth Rs 2.25 lakh crore
Companies have drawn government’s ire after their failure to start nearly 50 approved projects
World’s first carbon capture coal plant opens in Canada
It aims to make coal ‘a viable technical, environmental and economic case for continued use’. But should that be an aim?
Beijing closes its polluting power plant
Plans to close the remaining three coal-fired plants also, and generate power wholly by clean energy by 2016
Under international censure
The Singrauli Super Thermal Power Station has managed to secure a World Bank loan of $400 million, but the allegations of environmental …
Polluting power plant back in operation
Delhi's Rajghat thermal power station, which was ordered closed for causing excessive pollution, has resumed functioning and has until March to …
Environmental fallout of cooperation
Whether energy cooperation will benefit the environment or create problems in South Asia depends largely on whether hydropower is considered …
Virtual coast guard
Non-profits develop web application to monitor haphazard development along Indian coastline
COVID-19 package: Centre may directly pay power producers
Sitharaman marked Rs 90,000 cr for Discoms; Sources now indicate that may go directly to Gencos
PAT: Centre’s decarbonisation scheme not effective enough, says new CSE report
There has been very feeble reduction of CO2 emissions in the thermal sector under this scheme during the last ten years, finds CSE report
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima: And now Zaporizhzhia?
There have been multiple reports of rocket attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant ever since Russia occupied it