Landslide dams Tsangpo river

What's fanning heat waves

Assam on a platter

PAYING FOR POLLUTION

One of the world's oldest refineries, Digboi, faces closure

Students' organisation says no to gas pipeline in northeast

RTI assessment

Oil India's seimic survey threatens rare dolphin

Seismic survey in the Brahmaputra

Oil survey in Assam will endanger biodiversity, affect people

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Kala-azar spreads to Gujarat, MP

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

Blowing out a tradition

The ban on conch shell trading has sent the industry into a tizzy

Assam's dam crisis

Protests against dams are snowballing into a political movement in Assam

Degree without honours

Parliamentary committee turns down a proposed three-year course in rural health

Global Eco Watch: Polar bears could become extinct by 2100, says study

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Satellite Maps Forests

Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India

IN SHORT

China dams on Brahmaputra: Assam asks Centre to intervene

Admits that weak and old embankments are another threat to flood-ravaged Assam

UTTARKASHI

Houses that hold on

In Brief

Government for raising awareness on tobacco’s role in TB

A section on tobacco consumption added to the national programme for TB control

Climate change denial must stop

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Jumbo problem

Spate of elephant killings forces rethink of conservation policy

Diminishing returns