The Porunai in Sangam Literature: A river of wealth, power and antiquity

The latest discoveries about human settlements along the Porunai or Thamirabarani river in Tamil Nadu are exciting; the river and its valley have …

Delhi's Sangam Vihar needs to use its natural drainage to solve waterlogging

There is a need to look at informal settlements like Sangam Vihar as part of a larger drainage basin while conserving the natural topography

Mahua trees found in Puducherry’s French Quarter during unique tree survey

The survey is part of an initiative to document nature and natural settings like lakes, wetlands, beaches, etc and the thriving life around …

Faith and filth

Repeal regulations in Lakshadweep immediately: Civil society

Civil society organisations call for immediate recall of Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 5, 2020)

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

Pitcher of disquiet

It’s not just glory, Kumbh also deluges holy city with filth

World Migratory Birds Day: Save the gulls of the Sangam

Siberian gulls, who migrate to the Triveni Sangam in winter, die because of eating plastic; their habits also change when tourists feed them

How wide does a road have to be for a bus to pass?

One of the many problems with Delhi’s BRT is that it never went far enough

Smoke on the water

Kumbh karma

It took a trip to Harvard for the Uttar Pradesh top brass to realize that back home their house was not in order

How to make three boats in a day

Prepare working plan on waste discharge into Ganga, Yamuna during Kumbh: Allahabad HC to UP government

Authorities are directed to ensure that the ban on single-use plastic is enforced effectively and plastic waste is not dumped in the Ganga or Yamuna

COVID-19 pandemic sheds light on urban inequality vs mobility needs in cities

Millions who make the urban ecosystem tick live as squatters, in dense lanes and single rooms

Salvation for seers, curse for farmers

Practice of jal samadhi makes life hellish for people downstream of Sangam

Farmers affected by Karur’s dye industry to exercise NOTA

Group has 1,750 farmers says pollution from industries has reduced them to poverty and political parties in power ignored their repeated pleas

Godmen jostle for space near Sangam

Availability of land on the riverside has reduced because the river has shifted course

Unplanned urbanisation, encroachment blamed for Srinagar flood

Illegal structures had mushroomed on Jhelum’s banks and around lakes, clogging drainage channels