World Environment Day 2023: A call to action for a sustainable future
The theme for this year is ‘solutions to plastic pollution’
Is implementation of plastic ban in various states confined to paper?
No takers for recycling of many single-use plastic products, says report
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 6, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Ground report: How is Chhattisgarh’s ‘dung deal’ working
plan to purchase cow dung to boost rural economy, ensure clean villages and solve stray cattle problem saw initial success, but things …
How smartphones are killing the planet
The energy used to build a single smartphone is equal to the energy required to operate it for about a decade
How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth
The people of Edo Period Japan lived with time as it changed with the seasons, cherished materials and used the wisdom of reuse as a matter of …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2023)
Run-up to World EV Day: Battery passport, an opportunity for India
India should leverage its experience with Aadhaar / UPI to deploy scalable digital solutions in the battery value chain
Plastic pollution: Campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up — but manufacturers are fighting back
Governments have achieved disappointingly little so far and even the UN treaty on plastic pollution is unlikely to produce fundamental change
DTE Reportage: World meets in Paris to discuss an end to plastic pollution
Member states have urged the preparation of a zero draft which will be up for negotiations at the next round in Nairobi, Kenya
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 20, 2020)
Plastic-free planet: Members struggle to reach consensus on rules of procedure
INC-2 decides Open-Ended Working Group; may delay negotiations
50 kg plastic for every metre of coast by 2040 without drastic action: Report
Coordinated global action is needed to avoid a plastic pile up
New reactor powered by sun can convert plastic, CO2 into fuel
Cambridge researchers find way to turn PET plastic bottles and carbon dioxide into sustainable fuels like CO, syngas or formate
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 13, 2020)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 21, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
DTE Coverage: Ottawa talks as they happened
Read our reportage of the fourth round of negotiations for a global plastic treaty in Ottawa, Canada
CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Member states agree to intersessional work
Ahead of G7 summit in Italy, France flags unsustainable levels reached by plastic pollution
CSE-DTE at Ottawa: As talks progress, ‘North Stars’ bring hope for a Global Plastic Treaty
Rwanda & Peru’s conference room paper on primary plastics and Norway’s proposal on chemicals of concern offer guidance on …
Plastic’s toxic trail: ‘Indispensable’ polymer’s health impacts all-pervasive; petrochemical workers are especially vulnerable
Down To Earth visited Panipat’s petrochemical cluster to find how the area is in throes of a health crisis
Simply Put: Plastic is forever
India’s built-up area grew by 2.5 million hectares in 17 years
Large part of the increase caused by diversion of agricultural land
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 1, 2024)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal
Conserving Chitkul: Why the ‘last village of India’ cannot be allowed to drown in plastic
The pristine hamlet has heaps of plastic waste lurking in its inconspicuous corners
Kenya flooded with plastic waste from exported used clothes
The used clothes end up in Nairobi River or are used as fuel, causing pollution
