Amazon Doesn’t Know How to Hit Its Own Climate Target — And That’s a Bigger Problem Than It Sounds
Amazon’s chief sustainability officer said something on Tuesday that companies of its size almost never say out loud: the company doesn’t actually know how it’s[…]
World Rhino Day 2026: Why Climate Change Is Now as Big a Threat to Rhinos as the Poacher’s Bullet
For decades, the story of rhino conservation has been told almost entirely through the lens of poaching — organized crime syndicates, illegal horn markets, and[…]
What Really Caused Nepal’s Deadliest Flood in Decades? A Look Inside the Science
On the morning of August 26, 2026, a chunk of rock and glacier ice roughly 2,000 feet wide sheared off Langtang Lirung, a mountain on[…]
The US Just Tore Up Its Power Plant Climate Rules — Here’s What That Means for the Planet
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently signed a final rule repealing the carbon pollution standards that had governed America’s coal and gas-fired power plants. This is[…]
India Wants a Data Centre Boom — Without Draining Its Water Table, Says Jitin Prasada
As global tech giants race to build AI infrastructure across India, the government is trying to set the terms of that race before it runs[…]
Bittu Tabahi Takes His One-Man River Cleanup Mission to the Yamuna
On September 20 — World Cleanup Day — a 21-year-old college student from Madhya Pradesh stepped onto the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi with[…]
A century-old Tasmanian mine is flashing a war warning — and it’s also a story about the environment
There’s a small, wind-battered mine on King Island, off Tasmania’s northwest coast, that has an unusual track record: for more than a hundred years, it[…]
Who Pays for Plastic? Inside India’s Broken Math on Packaging Waste
Estimates from the 2020-21 Central Pollution Control Board Annual Report indicate that India generates about 160,000 metric tonnes of solid waste each day, of which[…]
What CSE’s State of India’s Environment 2026 Report Means for Viksit Bharat @2047
Every year since 1982, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), publisher of Down To Earth, has produced a document that functions less like a[…]
What Assam’s Proposal to Cut Kaziranga’s Eco-Sensitive Zone Means for India’s Wildlife Buffers
In August 2026, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the state government would approach the Centre within two months with a proposal to[…]
