Draft EIA 2020 undercuts India’s biodiversity and climate goals

The proposal to weaken policies for environmental protection with the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) draft, 2020, has resulted in …

Draft EIA: SC rejects Centre challenge to Delhi HC translation order

The high court heard a petition asking the Centre to print the draft EIA notification in 22 languages mentioned in the Eight Schedule of the …

Draft EIA notification institutionalises 1 season data for baseline

Such data is needed for assessing impact of a project on the environment; experts fear Environment Impact Assessment studies will become …

Subverting a basic human right

A draft water policy proposes to make water an economic good

‘Don’t push tar sands’

Nobel laureates ask Canada to stop extracting dirty oil

Waste from cattle

The US plans to regulate water pollution from livestock waste

To catch the polluter

Water pollutants can be traced using a bacterium DNA

Arsenic killer

Pluck the dirt out

In Short

Gaps galore in Ganga action plan

Kerala's backwaters carry modern-day brunt

Their ecosystem is under threat but no one seems to care

Pollution board raps Vedanta

No check on effluents

According to report

Legal tussle

Kerala looks for sand in silt

Desilting reservoir may contaminate drinking water

Science and Technology - Briefs

A Nationalised Nightmare

One of the main reasons given for nationalising the coalmines of India was to protect workers from accidents. What followed was large-scale …

Coronavirus spotlights the link between clean water and health

A key way to cut risk of falling sick is by washing your hands thoroughly and frequently. But what if you don’t have access to clean water?

Blind spot in Namami Gange

By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. It's time the …

'Give people viable option'

Activists, spiritual leaders and officials say ban on idol immersions in rivers and lakes can work only if people are offered alternatives

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

Rivers(e) effect

The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to purify Musi river, which has been given top priority under the National River Conservation plan, by …

Clean Thiruvananthapuram, but dirty Villappilsala

Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala was once known as the cleanest city in India. Today, it is littered with garbage