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[…]
Clean Rivers Don’t Need Big Budgets — They Need One Person Who Won’t Stop: Real Stories of India’s Grassroots River Warriors
From a college student wading alone into a garbage-choked stream to a former corporate employee who quit his job to revive ponds, India’s cleanest water[…]
A Dying Grass Craft, a Waste-Free Campus, and a National Award: The Hamirpur Story Behind India’s 2026 Teachers’ Honours
Most “best teacher” stories lead with the medal. This one leads with the moss. Long before Manjari V. Mahajan’s name appeared on a national shortlist,[…]
Switzerland Turns to Sheep Wool to Protect Its Melting Glaciers
As Switzerland’s glaciers continue to shrink under record summer heat, scientists in the Alps have turned to an unlikely ally in the fight to slow[…]
The Boy Who Cleaned a River by Hand — and Caught the Eye of the Man Who Wants to Clean the Ocean
In a small town called Biaora, tucked into Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district, there’s a river called the Ajnar. For years, it had become something locals[…]
