People reject EIA for Chhattisgarh steel project

Contamination

Dangerous business

Coliform will count

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 16, 2023)

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

Water in the age of coronavirus

As we confront the new global enemy SARS-COV-2, the availability of water will be a crucial determinant for a successful outcome in this war  

Stinking for two decades

Industrial effluent is contaminating Gujarat villages, but the authorities have not nailed the culprits

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 29-July 3, 2020)

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

Science and Technology - Briefs

A revolution gone awry

Easy access to agro-chemicals in Sri Lanka blamed for public health scare

Data fudged for mining clearance

Iron ore mines in Goa also concealed facts to get environmental clearance, shows report

INDIA

Water from Guanting reservoir in China unfit for drinking

Oil leak triggers crisis in Russia

Chemical units on notice

South asia

Effluents from Bhilwara textile units flow unabated

EU defends groundwater purity law

Stink of India's steel frame

News 360° - Briefs

Pollution killing freshwater species of Western Ghats: IUCN

16 per cent fish, plants and other freshwater species threatened; 2 per cent near threatened

Mired in sewage

Temple town Guruvayur adamant on dumping its sewage in backwater villages despite stringent laws, opposition

Cry of a river

A little known river in UP is struggling for survival. Untreated effluent, delayed action to blame

New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that …

Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …