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Book Review: ‘Endlessly Green’ Gives Our Rancid, Grey World New Hope

Bahar Dutt 08/12/2021

Books on the environment can leave us feeling overwhelmed...

Children of rag-pickers stand amid a heap of garbage on the outskirts of New Delhi in 2006. Credit: Kamal Kishore/Reuters

Mumbai and Delhi Generate Most Solid Waste Among Metro Cities

Mayank Aggarwal 15/10/2019

Mumbai and Delhi generate about 11,000 and 8,700 tonnes...

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It’s the Environment, Stupid.

C.P. Rajendran 28/07/2019

The country's landscape is being ravaged by plastics and...

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Behind Façade of Clean Mountain Towns, Kullu and Manali Struggle to Manage Waste

Kesang Thakur 24/06/2019

Authorities blame the surge in tourism for mounting waste,...

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In Photos | Zooming Into the Environmental Problems of a Growing Chennai

Amirtharaj Stephen 17/04/2019

As Tamil Nadu goes to polls tomorrow, a look...

The Wider Image: Dying "Mother Ganges": holy river succumbs to pollution

Why Take Away the Cess Meant to Clean India’s Mess?

Kaushik Chandrasekhar and Suneel Pandey 08/02/2018

Instead of doing away with the Swachh Bharat cess,...

Garbage is piled along a highway in Beirut, Lebanon, September 3, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Mohamed Azakir

Civil Society Groups in Lebanon Announce Launch of New Waste Management Coalition

Christophe Maroun 22/12/2017

The announcement came just days after the release of...