Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

Kolkata reconnects with its riverfront

Heavy metals polluting Kolkata's groundwater

States fined thousands of crores over waste — but how did NGT calculate the penalty amount?

Fine determined on polluter pays principle, equated to environmental compensation and cost of restoration

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 30, 2020)

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

March to Delhi to save Yamuna called off

Centre to release additional water into river; to construct canals for sewage in two years

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Novel coronavirus detected in sewage in India: Study

However, researchers found no viral genome in treated samples of the sites where the virus was detected in untreated wastewater

Why better sewage management in Chennai will help fight floods

Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain explains how the city's three rivers and 320 tanks and lakes that worked as flood barriers are used mostly for …

The political economy of defecation

This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India's richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The …

Water from waste

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also …

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

Pollution pays

Whenever the issue of how to end pollution is raised, it hits a block: technology. Take the case of air pollution: among other things, the issue …

Concrete invasion

Colombo’s marshes cannot avert floods the way they used to. Construction is to be blamed

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

INDIA

West Bengal's wetlands under threat

Bully among birds

A college campus in Soor Sarovar Bird Sanctuary flouts wildlife norms

Science and Technology - Briefs

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 …