How India’s beaches can unlock a nuclear-powered future

India’s Indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor and abundant thorium reserves hold key to India’s future energy security

A dharna here, a court victory there: How Rajasthan villages try to keep their land from solar firms

Encroachment of pastureland was possible because government doesn't recognise them as village commons, say locals

Ghana’s electricity crisis is holding the country back — how it got here

A rapid succession of regimes and the ravages of structural adjustment policies in the 1980s and 1990s challenged the ability of Ghana to clean …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 26, 2024)

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

Watch: What do electoral bonds disclose about violators of India’s environmental norms?

At least four of the major donors were associated with projects that violated environmental norms, snatched away tribal rights

In next 20 years, India may need massive power transmission corridors: CEA

Currently, no new power transmission projects are necessary

India’s stance on power sector has been changing since May 2023. Is it a lack of planning or just political messaging?

Plans to halt building new coal-fired power plants, apart from those already planned, were announced 6 months ago

CAG pulls up DAE

Harnessing wind

People should not be kept in dark on ill-effects of nuclear plants

Switching off power

Australia's "some polluters pay" principle

Under the scanner

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses ‘unprecedented‘ nuclear threats: Experts

A power outage, among other factors, could spell doom for nuclear reactors

IN FOCUS

Power pangs

Difficult choice: water or power

Pollute thy neighbour

Gridlock

Polluting coal power plants may get blanket 20-year extension of compliance deadlines 

Only 5% Category C plants in compliance with emission norms at present

Powering US networks

Renewable energy: Piling dues

Payment delays to RE generators biggest threat to the 175 GW target

Uniting to conserve

Power crunch in paradise

Port Blair, port city of the Andamans, is in a developmental cul de sac

POWER GAMES