Scrap godown fire in Ghaziabad kills one

Shanghai-ed

Prevention is cure

When preventive measures can fight encephalitis, is there a need for treatment in ill-equipped primary health centres?

Delhi's poll planks

Sanitation workers on COVID-19 front lines: How to save the warriors?

Several incidents in the last few months have shone spotlight on abysmal conditions under which sanitation workers function — without …

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

Unhealthy surroundings kill more than other factors do

View from the top

Planners must stop looking down at hill-stations

High risk

Problem: Tall buildings risky in high seismic zones; Status: Hill-stations are getting concretised and growing vertically; Challenge: Use local …

What goes down

Problem: Lack of space for garbage disposal; inadequate sewerage; Status: Garbage disposed on hill slopes ends in streams/rivers; Challenge: …

Defying gravity

Problem: Terrain forbids water supply systems that work in plains; Status: Water crisis in peak season every year; Challenge: Develop …

Local travails

Problem: Tourist influx too large; earnings flow downhill; Status: Residents forced to share meagre facilities with tourists; Challenge: Regulate …

On road to sustainability?

Many nice words, some money but no direction for real change

Lessons from two cities

Pune aims to become a zero-landfill city by 2015. With a range of solid waste management options, the target does not seem too ambitious. …

Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

JNNURM: a Nehruvian farce

Public private prank

Delhi to get interceptor sewers

SC agrees to subsidise five waste-to-energy plants

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

14 km from Pune, its footprint

Why environmental degradation is a big health risk

Down To Earth and Centre for Science and Environment jointly release Body Burden 2015, an annual health report

Environmental degradation draining Pakistan’s economy: survey

Increasing urbanisation is causing air, water pollution

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