Drinking problem

Repair sewers or go to jail

Money talks

Beauty has its uses

Ornamental plants clean the water they grow in

‘Climate change one of many reasons for Kerala’s receding groundwater table’

Anand Zacharias, development associate (water) with MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, talks about how open well recharge system is helping …

Climate change blues: Many lakes to turn green, brown

Air, temperature, precipitation, lake depth and elevation determine the colour, along with factors like algae and silt

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 2, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 9, 2022)

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

DTE Coverage: Daily Court Digest (October 31-November 4, 2022)

The top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal during the week

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2023)

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

How our detergent footprint is polluting aquatic ecosystems

Nonylphenol, a hazardous chemical present in detergents, is known to enter water bodies and the food chains

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 24, 2019)

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

Grossly polluting industries more than doubled in 8 years: SOE in Figures

11% of these industries continue to flout pollution control standards in the country; nearly half of these are in Uttar Pradesh

New Delhi is running out of water

Access to clean and regular water remains a challenge for New Delhi, a city that could easily tackle its water crisis with greater effort

Rafting: in troubled waters

White water rafting operators and environmental activists are in a legal battle over rafting's effect on the environment

Rich description, poor analysis

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The road from Stockholm to Rio

It was the Stockholm conference, held exactly 20 years ago, which put environmental issues on the global agenda for the first time. But the …

Filthy lucre

US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry …

Dead fish tell tales

...as the case of Betwa proves. Tales which have the power to move a whole town in Madhya Pradesh and send the notoriously slothful official …

The blind Court

This is a story of justice denied. On February 13, 1996, the Supreme Court, the highest seat of justice in the country, ruled that five units …

Bottled water alternative for drinking is worse than problem

Society is paying for pollution, has become an economic burden

Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods

Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation

For a clean ganga

As told to parliament (December 9, 2021): Yamuna ammonia pollution affects Delhi water supply

All that was discussed in the House through the day

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