Too cold for comfort!
Managing our cooling and heating needs would go a long way to reduce electricity demand and carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to climate …
Holding the mirror, truthfully, for 28 years
Down To Earth's mission is not hidden in reams of corporate gloss. It is open. It is a dare, writes our editor, Sunita Narain.
“मानव निर्मित” आपदा
केरल में जो हुआ वह पूरी दुनिया में हो रहा है। यह एक असहज करने वाला तथ्य है कि हमारे पास बदलते मौसम से ...
Weather is 2017 person of the year
The biggest headline of 2017 is not deadly air pollution, but the catastrophe of weather changes that are bringing distress across India’s …
Old answers for ‘new’ monsoon
Mitigating floods and droughts has only one answer: obsessive attention to building millions and millions of connected and living water structures
स्वास्थ्य का व्यापार
जीएम भोजन का स्वास्थ्य के प्रति एक चिंताजनक पहलू यह भी है कि इससे एलर्जिक रिएक्शन हो सकता है।
जलवायु परिवर्तन पर आईपीसीसी की नई रिपोर्ट के बाद कड़ी कार्रवाई की जरूरत
आईपीसीसी की ताजा रिपोर्ट इसकी पुष्टि करती है कि अब हम बातों में वक्त नहीं गंवा सकते या काम न करने के नए बहाने नहीं ...
Why food is about biodiversity
If biodiversity disappears, food will become impersonal. It will become a sterile package designed for universal size and taste
Delhi battles for clear skies and lungs
The Capital needs to completely transition to clean fuel and address local sources of pollution
Cities need wisdom for water
Be it Cape Town or Bengaluru, the cities, especially in Global South, need to create a new future that is water-secure
A story between ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’
Nobody knows (or rather, nobody wants to say) who will regulate the “permissible” and ensure that what is not permissible does not …
Air pollution: the ostrich effect
We know the causes of air pollution, but in the political theatrics around it, each solution suggested is contested
Why bees? Why honey?
CSE’s probe is not just about honey or its adulteration; it is about the ‘nature’ of the business of future food
Our broken system of environmental clearance
Environmental impact assessment has become a convoluted exercise, designed for futility
Migration: I am biased, for people
We must not build a divisive agenda on migration, otherwise it will lead to endless spread of hatred
Ode to politics of consensus: Sheila Dikshit
It would be really unfortunate if we let the Sheila Dikshit way of politics go out of fashion
Waste trade: Is this right?
Waste is a resource for traders as they cannot afford to let it be burnt, but there is waste that cannot be recycled and has to be burnt
कागजों में बंद, जमीन पर चालू प्रदूषण फैलानी वाली इंडस्ट्री
हम बंद दरवाजे से मशीनों की स्पष्ट आवाज सुन सकते थे और नीली डाई को नाली में गिरते हुए भी देख सकते थे। लेकिन ...
India's Cow Crisis Part 3: Brutal to kill India’s ancient uber economy
Sunita Narain on cow-vigilantism, cattle trade and the collapse of the livestock economy of India
Diseases of a lifestyle: the transition to avoid
Can we not go from being poor but unhealthy to being rich and healthy? Why should we inherit diseases that can be junked?
The Earth for you
If we do not have independent and credible sources of information, we cannot even begin to move towards resolution
कोविड-19: इस बार लीपापोती से काम नहीं चलेगा
भारत अपनी जीडीपी का 1.28 प्रतिशत सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं पर खर्च करता है, जबकि चीन 3 प्रतिशत। ऐसे में अब हमें अपना एजेंडा बदलने ...
Thus begins our season of despair
There is now no weather pattern for scientists to follow, and we are exposed to nature’s dictates like never before
Gopichand’s healthy choice
Gopichand is a national hero because he is the only Indian sportsperson who has publicly shunned endorsing soft drinks
Delhi Air Emergency: Capital bending the curve but more action needed
Delhi’s pollution levels should be reduced so that even when air speeds go down, cold air settles and episodes of high pollution strike, it …