Awareness is key to rejuvenating River Ganga: experts at 105th Indian Science Congress

Besides biodiversity conservation and a forestation programme in Ganga river basin, the experts recommended installation of 113 real-time online …

New technique developed to make biodiesel cleaner

Scientists have developed a cost-effective strategy to convert crude glycerol, a by-product of manufacturing biodiesel, into a green fuel

'78% of sewage generated in India remains untreated'

Analysis and reporting by Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth magazine reveal how Indian cities are disposing of excreta in an …

Dry cleaning Hussainsagar

Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing but a harebrained plan

WHO releases new guidelines on breast cancer

Recommends “organised” screening to cut down breast cancer mortality by 20 per cent

Waste pays

Minimising the production of waste in industries saves raw material and, because it reduces the quantity of pollutants, lowers the cost of …

New role for earthworms as sewage cleaners

A Pune-based research institute has developed a process that employs earthworms to remove impurities from waste water.

Treating waste

Participants at a recently-held workshop stressed the need for proper treatment of hospital wastes

The idea of a clean city

could well become a myth by 2007. More than half of the world' s population by then would be urban dwelling. The urban ecological footprint would …

Clogged up in Delhi

More than two years ago, the Union ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation (moud) issued a notification making wastewater recycling …

Cash clogged

Will Delhi’s ambitious sewerage plan help clean the Yamuna?

Kumbh: time to come clean

When Vishnu sleeps

Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 31, 2020)

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

Can we save Ganga?

The Ganga is getting political attention. What does it take to clean the river? Down To Earth team travels to the most polluted stretch of the …

New plan, old problem

The proposed Sewerage Master Plan 2031 that promises to end Delhi's drainage troubles underestimates the wastewater volume of the city

COVID-19: Sewage study shows nearly 6 lakh infected in Hyderabad

Around 2 lakh people actively shedding viral materials, the study found

Ventilators for COVID-19: Crisis looms in several states even after 50,000 allocated

More than 7,000 of the Centre-allocated ventilators are lying idle 

Ayurveda: Hurdles of practising traditional medicine are limiting its potential

Medical pluralism can potentially help achieve universal health coverage

As told to Parliament: Assam, Bihar, Odisha get flood hazard atlases

All that was discussed in the Houses through the day

New study maps how much energy, nutrients and water are locked in world’s wastewater

Efficiently treating wastewater can help meet SDGs: UN-backed research

Sullied effort

A CAG report castigates the government for its poor implementation of the Ganga Action Plan

Sorting e-waste

European Parliament to make producers responsible for e-waste

Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads