Park in trouble

Proposal for an oil exploration site inside the Kirthar National Park outrages environmentalists in Pakistan

Search for the lesser evil

A Down To Earth survey of the civil society shows that when it comes to the environment, no political party in India has anything substantive …

DTC: OUT OF GAS?

With the deadline for converting its entire bus fleet to compressed natural gas drawing near, the Delhi Transport Corporation looks for excuses …

Beastly Existence

Overcrowding and inbreeding are responsible for rising wildlife deaths in Indian zoological gardens

A watery affair

The real issues of global water management took a backseat as crisis-mongering and anti-dam protests hijacked the Second World Water Forum at …

Ground reality

As the water crisis surfaces yet again, illegal borewells spring up in and around Delhi. Binayak Das and Suresh Babu on a plummeting water table …

Simply Put: Ageing India

IPCC AR6 (Part III): Can carbon capture and renewable energy save the world?

Phasing out fossil fuesl is the only way to go

Simply Put : The global warming frying pan

Delay in empanelling hospitals, failure to meet standards plague PMJAY scheme: CAG

Availability of EHCPs per 100,000 beneficiaries in Assam, Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar …

Karnataka forest department has filed just 130 chargesheets on forest encroachment since 1980: RTI

The RTI inquiry reveals that 204,229 acres were lost to encroachment while another 104,065 acres of land were illegally granted by the state …

Final warning on 1.5 degrees Celsius: DTE’s coverage of the IPCC Synthesis Report

DTE analysed the IPCC Synthesis Report which summarises the findings of six reports released during its Sixth Assessment Cycle

Climate justice, now: Latest IPCC report just told us why we need that

IPCC’s latest climate report provides evidence that climate-justice needs to be at the centre of global policymaking 

Real state of India’s forests

India has been trying to achieve to put 33 per cent of its geographical area under forest, but the latest report shows that it is yet to reach 22 …

Draft coastal management notification faces protests

UP farmers continue protest over land acquisition by Reliance

Fever stalks UP

Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus

Heat is on

Flawed legislation

Centre’s law to regulate healthcare system faces resistance in many states

Blood, sweat and tears

For RTI activists of Bihar the cost of exposing corruption is life

Of plants and bees

Depleting honeybees threaten biodiversity

Panna’s poaching nexus exposed

Staff of the tiger reserve worked hand in glove with poachers, while the state government kept its eyes tightly shut

Taste for waste

Entrepreneurs now see business opportunity in waste paper. The raddiwala employed with start-ups can be summoned to home with the click of a …

Parliamentary Standing Committee rejects TSR Subramanian report on environmental laws

TSR panel had proposed new law, institutions and mechanisms to fast track green clearances

Deadly target

Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy