He came to find life but found plastic everywhere.
The nightmare is coming true. Of plastic swamping our cities, choking our lives, shutting the light out...
India is full of amazing animals and forests—but plastic is spoiling the party! According to Down to Earth, published by Centre for Science and Environment, we dump 9.3 million tonnes of plastic every year—more than any other country! This amounts to roughly onefifth of global plastic emissions. This badly pollutes the air we breathe as most of the plastic garbage is burnt. Our growing love for single-use stuff is making things worse. Can we stop the plastic monster before it grows bigger?
Explore how plastic, oil, chemicals, and even noise are choking marine life—and what we can do to help.
Meet the students turning kayaking into a weekly mission to collect plastic waste and keep the backwaters clean — one paddle at a time.
How do people get to work in India? People use all kinds of ways: walking, cycling, riding scooters and mopeds, driving cars and jeeps, taking autos, buses, taxis, metros, trains, and even tempos! Some people even work from home. The way people travel differs a lot between cities and villages. Here’s a surprise from The State of India in Figures 2025, released by the Centre for Science and Environment: More people walk to work in cities than in villages! In cities, 2.6 crore people walk to work, while in villages, it’s 1.8 crore.
Can electric cars outdrive conventional cars in India? Discover how EVs are changing the way we move.
35 Indian cities have recently been listed among the 50 most polluted cities in the world. What's worse, 16 of these cities received nearly Rs 1,000 crore over the past eight years to tackle air pollution. This disturbing finding has placed India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) under intense scrutiny. NCAP is the costliest air pollution control programme ever taken up in India, and one of the biggest globally. But it appears to be non-existent in 19 of the Indian cities that are part of the ‘most polluted’ top 50 list.
A simple, lucid explainer on the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of wildlife corridors.
