CSE’s Weekly Bulletin

October 15, 2025

The latest on our perspectives, analysis, publications and events

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Stories from Down To Earth

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New Publications

Another farmer quits

Pitabasha is yet to decide what he will do next. He has simply stopped farming. He is one among the estimated 2,000 farmers who quit agriculture every day in India

This Dussehra, Pitabasha did not go for the customary sighting of the Indian Roller, or tiha, as it is called in Odia. The bird is believed to grant wishes, and every year thousands of people flock to farms, fields and forests hoping to glimpse it and make a wish. But the 30-year-old farmer from Matupali village in Odisha stayed back. From that day, he also stopped calling himself a farmer... Continue Reading

Here's what to watch out for this month at CSE

National Conclave

Residential Training Programme

Event

Cub Reporters Programme

Gobar Times

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From Down To Earth

Environmental Essential Services without essential environmental safeguards?

Why it is necessary to reconsider exemptions for common municipal solid waste management facilities from the environmental impact assessment process

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Extraction, floods and forgotten landscapes underline North Bengal’s climate debt

Catastrophic floods and landslides in October 2025 highlighted the consequences of decades of neglect

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India’s pandemic waste story

How India’s waste infrastructure met the pandemic with tech, policy and grit

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Rural women farmers in South Africa

How global promises aren’t translating into support on the ground

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WATCH | Madhya Pradesh cough syrup deaths


More from Down To Earth

New Publications

Our Biodiverse World: Stories and Articles for Schools and Schoolchildren

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Beyond Concrete: Low-carbon Solutions from Novelty to Norm

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Solid Waste Information Management System (SWIMS) for Local Governments in Kenya

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Africa: Too Hot to Cool?

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