Global environmental risks
Environmental risks are perceived to be the five most critical long-term threats to the world as well as the most potentially damaging to people …
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 …
River restoration is not just an ecological act
Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …
Investment terror
Since the 1990s developing nations have been on a treaty spree, signing a vast number of bilateral and regional investment treaties to attract …
The political economy of defecation
This is a story about Delhi and the Yamuna, about the relationship between one of India's richest cities and one of her most revered rivers. The …
Pollution pays
Whenever the issue of how to end pollution is raised, it hits a block: technology. Take the case of air pollution: among other things, the issue …
What goes down must come up
It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject untreated effluents directly into the ground, contaminating underground aquifers. Down To …
Stained steel
The iron and steel sector is regarded as the core of Indian economy. Its players are big and powerful. It is extremely resource-intensive and …
Gentle on critical pollution
After declaring 43 industrial areas in India as critically polluted and imposing a moratorium on their expansion, the Union Ministry of …
Secretive tribunals, hidden damages
Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …
India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable
Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …
Lavasa exposed
By its looks, the place could be mistaken for Portofino, a fishing village-cum-resort in Italy—multi-coloured buildings crowd a waterfront …
Hyacinth can help remove toxic chromium from polluted water
Researchers from India and Ethiopia have developed low-cost method to remove chromium from water
Not an ideal immersion
Instead of artificial tanks, devotees use lakes and large water bodies for immersion of idols of Lord Ganesh
In Parliament on August 12, 2016
Here is a round-up of debates on environmental and developmental issues that took place on the final day of the Parliament (Monsoon) Session
Carbon dots: A futuristic solution for sustainably managing aquatic environment?
The inexpensive nanomaterial is becoming more popular in applications like sensing and bioimaging
60% European water bodies highly polluted: study
European Environmental Agency, in its study, finds English rivers, lakes and estuaries to be among the worst
A river’s worthy son
Veerbhadra Mishra dedicated his spiritual quest and scientific calling to cleaning the Ganga
Poisoned Punjab: DTE reports from state’s villages wracked by water pollution
Cancer and a host of other diseases afflict people living in the Fazilka, Ferozepur, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts of the state, DTE finds
A story between ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’
Nobody knows (or rather, nobody wants to say) who will regulate the “permissible” and ensure that what is not permissible does not …
The ‘forgotten’ water ecosystems of Mumbai
City’s water systems need urgent attention to build resilience against climate-related uncertainties
Bleeding blue: Fast fashion is now poisoning African rivers
Untreated or partially treated effluent from textile factories, usually blue / indigo in colour, is killing African rivers
Final diagnosis
Scientists have developed a product that will go a long way in helping standardise measurements of water pollution
Lake Victoria: CSE lays out strategy to manage water quality in Tanzania
Startegy for Mwanza city suggests greater focus on Nyashishi river needed, connecting households to sewer lines and waste segregation
We looked for South Africa’s ‘missing’ plastic litter. This is what we found
South Africa is ranked as the 11th worst offender in terms of land-based sources of litter entering the sea