Singapore Airlines signs binding deal for up to 4,800 tonnes of fuel made from waste carbon
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has agreed to buy up to 4,800 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) over three years from Aether Fuels, a Singapore-based company[…]
Salesforce signs 500,000-credit deal for methane cuts from Indian rice farms
Salesforce has agreed to buy 500,000 carbon credits from Mitti Labs, an agricultural methane-reduction startup whose projects help smallholder farmers in India grow rice with[…]
Bengaluru Class 12 student builds shipping-container classroom for migrant construction workers’ children
A Class 12 student in Bengaluru has designed a portable classroom inside a shipping container for children who live on construction sites and move often[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
