Periyar river's pollution is Eloor's bane

Tailings dam opposed in Chile

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (May 25-29, 2020)

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

Giant tunnel to save Thames from sewage

South Asia

Idol immersions after Durga Puja leave rivers polluted yet again

Central Pollution Control Board guidelines and court directions are yet to achieve the desired result of keeping rivers and lakes free of …

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 …

Money, money everywhere; not a clean drop to drink

Experts lament the lack of scientific planning and direction for cleaning of rivers in budgets

Buriganga chokes on pollutants

Political will and community participation is needed to revive the dying river that gave life to Dhaka

Letters

High ammonia content in Yamuna

Caution over cleanup of Nura river

United Colours of Industry

Of all dyes produced across the world, 11 per cent goes out as effluents. 2 per cent from manufacturing and as much as 9 per cent from colouring. …

Uruguay's pulp mill begins operation

Daunting journey

Carbon particles from biomass burning and vehicles could be discolouring the Taj Mahal. Down To Earth returns to the monument, a symbol of …

Where river runs black

Industries from far and near dump untreated toxic effluents near Ulhasnagar, choking a river and sickening people

Divide and dump waste

Letters

Science & Technology - Briefs

Draft EIA 2020 undercuts India’s biodiversity and climate goals

The proposal to weaken policies for environmental protection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) draft, 2020, has resulted in …

Draft EIA: SC rejects Centre challenge to Delhi HC translation order

The high court heard a petition asking the Centre to print the draft EIA notification in 22 languages mentioned in the Eight Schedule of the …

Draft EIA notification institutionalises 1 season data for baseline

Such data is needed for assessing impact of a project on the environment; experts fear Environment Impact Assessment studies will become …

COVID-19, summer season, a double blow for water issues in Odisha’s Jajpur

Villagers of the district’s Sukinda block forced to use water from contaminated sources

IN COURT

Radioactive waste in Congolese river