• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Losing track: Delhi needs to stretch beyond token steps to boost cycling

NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department built cycle tracks across the city, only to see them taken over by shops and motorised two-wheelers. The Covid lockdown, however, heralded the return of bicycles on the road, to some extent because of the absence public transport. After the capital opened up, Delhiites are still pedalling on short-distance trips, leaving traffic experts to believe that this is the ideal time to induct bicycles and electric vehicles into the public transport system.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Green panel to keep watch on how neighbours plan to curb farm fires

With just a couple of months left before farmers in Punjab and Haryana start burning crop stubble, both the states have submitted an action plan and a status report to Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) detailing how they plan to provide incentives and raise awareness to curb th problem.

• Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy

India faces growing biomedical waste crisis as coronavirus cases soar

NEW DELHI - Ms Arasmani Devi, 36, plucks out a needle from a used injection with her bare hands, before throwing its plastic barrel and plunger into a sack of potentially recyclable items. Her 40-year-old husband Akhilesh Paswan works next to her at a recycling yard in Noida, a suburb near Delhi.

• Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy

Single use, dangerous misuse: on the war against plastic during COVID-19

Reversing policies aimed to eliminate single-use plastics will do us more harm than good On one of his usual walks collecting plastic trash in Chennai, B. Gowtham recently noticed a goat wearing a discarded face mask. “It’s sad,” he says, adding

• Sustainable Food Systems

Pesticides endorsed? Business Standard ad on foreign funded NGOs malicious: Activists

In a sharp rebuttal to a full-page advertorial published in the daily “Business Standard” (July 29), more than 160 academics, activists and NGOs, many of them working in the environmental field, have said that the content the advertorial by the all-India pesticides and chemical fertilizer industry body, Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), is “malafide as it seeks to promote harmful agricultural practices detrimental to public interest.”

• Environment Education

Bringing environmental education home

• Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy

Scavengers in India risk health to sift coronavirus debris

Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years.

• Environment Education

CSE Audit@Home survey reveals some promising green trends

CHENNAI: An online environmental survey, conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment, evoked tremendous response as it witnessed participation of over 47,000 students from 28 states with Delhi being on the top with 8,000 participants, said a press release issued by the CSE on Monday.

• Environment Education

55% of students not using any form of renewable energy: CSE survey

An online survey done by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) among 47,000 students showed that 55% of them did not use any form of renewable energy.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Why smog towers may not fix city’s problem

Installing a smog tower in the capital may take another ten months, with a fresh MoU signed by IIT-Bombay with the central government. The work will be carried out using expertise from University of Minnesota and IIT Delhi. At present, Delhi has only one smog tower – a 20-ft- tall device, which was installed at Lajpat Nagar in January by a local traders’ association.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

INDIA: With limited public transit, cycling picks up speed in Delhi, finds study

The reason for the cycling increase vary from limited public transport options to a preference for contactless modes of travel to keep the Covid-19 infection at bay. Nearly two-and-a-half months after Delhi started relaxing the lockdown norms put in place to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, roads of the national capital have started seeing a surge in the number of cyclists, a study has found

• Sustainable Food Systems

Is that milk safe? CSE's new assessment of antibiotic misuse in the dairy sector

• Sustainable Food Systems

CSE's new assessment of antibiotic misuse in dairy sector says milk is not safe

BATHINDA: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Wednesday organized an online meeting and consultation of key stakeholders on antibiotic use in the Indian dairy sector and to know how healthy is the milk, which people consume.

• Sustainable Food Systems

Residues remain largely untested in milk. We are concerned, says CSE director general

Residues remain largely untested in milk. We are concerned, says CSE director general Antibiotics are extensively misused in the dairy sector and its residues remain largely untested in milk, which is an integral part of Indian diets, particularly of children, noted a recently published survey report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

• Sustainable Food Systems

CSE’s new assessment of antibiotic misuse in dairy sector says milk is not safe

• Media

Mystery diseases grip India, but surveillance is almost nonexistent – finds new Down To Earth Investigation