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Gold mine spills cyanide in Ghana

Protest for Kali river water

Yellow river blues

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 10, 2020)

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

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …

Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …

Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …

Kumbh: time to come clean

Protests against World Bank funding in pulp mills in Uruguay

Mills pollute Uttaranchal hills

China slaps US $125,000 fine on Jilin Petrochemical

When Vishnu sleeps

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

One river, two origins

Industrialists are trying to push the origin of the Nag river downstream to capture its upper stretch for real estate business

New plan, old problem

The proposed Sewerage Master Plan 2031 that promises to end Delhi's drainage troubles underestimates the wastewater volume of the city

I am green by choice , not by chance

Probably the first chief minister of Delhi to have taken a keen interest in the environment, Shiela Dixit has got a mixed response for her …

Argentina unveils clean-up plan for La Matanza river

Kolkata tanners unhappy with new relocation site

Antifouling paints by Australian yacht clubs release toxic elements into Swan river

Centre and state join hands to clean the Yamuna

A Special Purpose Vehicle has been created to enable officials to clean the river on the lines of the Sabarmati riverfront model

Draft CAG report slams Andhra pollution control board for negligence

The report blames the board’s inaction for unchecked pollution of water bodies and deteriorating air quality

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