Environment

Extreme temperatures during the summer in India make people with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases more vulnerable, as does COVID. How can heat impact be mitigated?

Amit Kumar and his fellow Dwarka Sector 8 residents are fighting to prevent the DDA from destroying the only public park in their sector.

Wetlands created by Raja Bhoj 1000 years ago face extinction today, thanks to the new Bhopal Development Plan. The plan threatens, among other things, increased tiger presence in some eco-sensitive areas.

It was clear from the word go that this lapsed Ordinance was meant primarily to prevent the Supreme Court from appointing the Justice Madan B Lokur commission to prevent stubble burning.

At our online roundtable on climate crisis in tier 2 cities, we asked participants to share that one call to action that they would give out to various stakeholders.

On February 10th, we organised an online round-table discussion on ‘Climate Crisis and Environmental Sustainability: Lessons for Tier 2 cities’. A summary of some key observations.

The landfill has poisoned groundwater in the vicinity and 50-60 people have died of cancer in the region. Residents fear the plant will only make matters worse.

Plogging as a practice gained momentum across the world in 2018; now, several youth volunteers in Pune have taken to it to keep plastic waste from landfills

It is still the Supreme Court that continues to drive government action towards bringing down air pollution in Delhi-NCR.

A study ascribes monetary value to the price of unplanned urbanisation in Delhi, in terms of the decline in total value of ecosystem services from 7 natural elements.

An alarming report on air pollution in these plains from the University of Chicago (EPIC) shows that residents here are losing 7.5 years of their lives as a result. What’s causing this?

On the night of November 24th, a fire broke out at the Ghazipur landfill site in the capital, choking an already severely polluted city.