Yamuna claims back Delhi: River inundated city with less water than previous flood years; here is why

Siltation, encroachment, lack of dredging and flushing are to blame, experts tell DTE

State of India’s environment: Quality of air, water, land worsened in India’s industrial clusters

Tarapur in Maharashtra emerged the most polluted cluster between 2009 and 2018

Western disturbance to impact many parts of India

A wet weekend is in store for northern and central India

No land to farm

With urbanisation of rural areas, space for food production in India is decreasing

ORDER ON TAJ

GOMTI POLLUTION

Preference to natives

Petrol from plastic

An energy efficient technique

Uttar Pradesh’s Bioenergy Policy: Good on paper, execution may be tricky

Offers cheap land for lease, tax and tariff exemptions to reduce fossil fuel use

Uttar Pradesh police arrest national forest union chief for protesting against Kanhar dam project

In April, the police had opened fire on villagers peacefully protesting at the dam site

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

Encephalitis kills 22

Ecofriendly additive

New look for seven Indian cities

Delhi's new public health concern—Japanese encephalitis

Did pigs bring it?

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 11, 2024)

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

Diwali pollution: Delhi air quality to be in ‘poor’ & ‘very poor’ categories today, tomorrow

Fire count due to stubble burning low over northwest Delhi as on October 23

Policy Backfires

Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish 

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Get positive

Every problem has a solution

Anatomy of a poison

How, and where, does arsenic contaminate groundwater? The theories differ

Evil design

The extent of arsenic contamination now includes several states in India

In absolute denial

The government refuses to acknowledge that arsenic menace has a spread

Rajasthan Locust Attack: Both state, Centre need to shed complacency

Between 1993 and 2020, the governments hardly invested in locust control departments

Power packed green

Leafy vegetable that is a great substitute for spinach