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[Video] Can a waste-to-energy plant address piling concerns from a landfill site?

Kundan Pandey, Video by Shaz Syed 1 Jul 2022

Living in the shadows of a waste mountain

Shaz Syed 30 Jun 2022

[Commentary] Thirty years after the Rio Summit the green report card is not fully in the red

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 May 2022
Improving the efficiency of large solar parks is crucial to avoiding the requirement of installing more projects. Photo by Thomas Lloyd Group/Wikimedia Commons.

Reduce air pollution to avoid land conflicts due to solar projects, recommends study

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Mar 2022

Aerosol pollution is a health hazard that also destabilises Earth’s climate

Conrad Fox 10 Mar 2022

From pollution to power, what stops paddy straw from becoming the fuel of choice

Manu Moudgil 7 Dec 2021
SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Ajit Menon.

[Commentary] Industrialisation gone wrong in coastal Cuddalore

Ajit Menon, Arunkumar A.S. 1 Dec 2021

Odisha has an ambitious electric vehicle plan but faces challenges

Manish Kumar 30 Sep 2021

Using fossil fuel as a cash cow: A big obstacle in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 31 Mar 2021

Stakeholders raise concerns on the new vehicle scrapping policy

Rohin Kumar 29 Mar 2021

With budget focusing on economic recovery, environment goes out of focus

Mayank Aggarwal 4 Feb 2021
A vendor carrying LPG cylinders

Government survey paints a different picture of Ujjwala scheme claims

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2021

Bauxite mining threatens India’s lone wolf sanctuary and an interstate river

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Dec 2020
Containers with microbial spray solution at an IARI facility. Photo by special arrangement.

[Commentary] A microbial spray could be the game changer against crop residue burning

Usha Rai 19 Nov 2020

A large scale shift to electric vehicles may not be as environment friendly as it seems

Mayank Aggarwal 12 Nov 2020

India’s 40-year old law to combat air pollution languishes as the crisis intensifies

Nihar Gokhale 10 Nov 2020

India’s largest coalfield to expand, green cover under threat

Manish Kumar 6 Nov 2020
Thoothukudi Thermal power, Thoothukudi. Photo by Hassan Afridhi/Unsplash.

Even with coal, strict air pollution control can prevent early deaths

Sahana Ghosh 22 Oct 2020
A farmer burning paddy stubble in Bucho Mandi in Bathinda district

Smoke from stubble burning in Punjab may aggravate COVID-19 symptoms

Vivek Gupta 16 Oct 2020

The precarious journey of Goa’s mining-affected and dependent people

Supriya Vohra 23 Sep 2020