Emission standards

Bharalu in danger

Rain forest discovered

Smuggled wood seized

Improving human-elephant relations

Anomalies galore

A survey of a World Bank-funded environment programme in Assam

In Short

Off course

Official callousness may result in Tezpur's destruction

Drowned

Assam's Dhemaji district faces extermination by floods

News Snippets

Non-lethal bomb

Jute claims

Delicacies from its leaves relieve arsenic poisoning  

How locals are trying to save the dying Deepor Beel

Some initiatives, along with bettering the health of the beel, have also provided employment to women from the community

Activists show lacuna in Assam PCCF’s notification on elephant microchips to prevent illegal transport

Microchips are issued for stolen or illegally captured elephants too; a captive elephant with a microchip may be a wild-caught one, they say

Are we inured to weather crises?

Not the number of natural disasters; we now need to keep an account of losses and damages

Manipur landslide: Weak soil, incessant rain, anthropogenic pressure to blame, say experts

Seventy-nine people have been confirmed as victims while 47 bodies have been recovered from the accident site at Marangching village in …

Kamrup vulture deaths: It is time to fight for the birds, if we want to secure our own future

The decline in vulture populations in some parts of the world, including India, may have serious consequences for ecosystems and humans alike

Climate change is real: Assam tea did not see a second flush this year

Measures to mitigate the impact of climate change on the tea industry need to be urgently undertaken, say tea experts

October rainfall in Northeast ‘normal’ but not flash floods

According to environmentalists, the floods that crippled the region last month have been caused due to a number of anthropogenic reasons

The Earth is not for humans alone, says NGT over Deepor Beel

Water body on the outskirts of Guwahati has been facing threats from railway tracks and a municipal solid waste plant

Assamese villagers become trailblazers in adaptive agriculture

From seed banks to rainwater harvesting, one village on the Brahmaputra has spread innovative agriculture through the region – as farmers …

Thousands marooned in a 'dam-induced' flood in Golaghat

Almost 90,000 people and more than 7,500 hectares of land under water as NEEPCO dam releases water from the Doyang river that flows through …

Palm oil consumption increased 230% in almost 2 decades, yet India imports most of it

India has not been able to achieve self-sufficiency in palm oil production despite 40 years of efforts. Down To Earth travelled to some of the …

Less than 10 per cent of dams have emergency action plans in case of floods: CAG

Report by the CAG has found delays and discrepancies in execution of projects for river management 

Under the Sal Tree—theatre of nature

Under the Sal Tree theatre festival is a unique concept where plays are organised inside a Sal forest in Assam's Goalpara district. This is an eco-…