Breaking bad: 8 Gaya villages shift away from growing opium

Economically viable crops, skill development encourage villagers

A breakthrough for a rare genetic disorder

After 13 years of experiments and research, Indian scientist Surajit Sinha has developed a chemical formula to make medicine for Duchenne …

An old man and his baton: Meet Damodar Kashyap

Kashyap has ensured food, and livelihood in Bastar villages by offering them thriving forests

The seed banker: This Nuapatna farmer strives to save traditional paddy varieties

Bijaya Jhankar grows nine traditional varieties of paddy that have a longer harvest duration of 130-150 days

Do you want to cut your Carbon footprint after death?

Recompose offers human composting, or natural organic reduction as a greener alternative to burial, cremation

Ensuring home for those abandoned with HIV: Meet Noori Amma

A transgender woman diagnosed with HIV in 1987 has run a home for children living with the disease for nearly two decades now

These places in NCR are making zero waste a daily commitment

Down To Earth profiles two initiatives in the National Capital Region that aim at reducing food waste and a number of other measures for making …

IISER Mohali scientist plans to fuse theories to understand symmetries of geometric objects

This recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship wants to understand symmetries of geometric, algebric objects

New alphabets: How kids in Rayagada, Kalahandi continued learning amid COVID-19

Children in two of India’s poorest districts continue their education as communities convert open spaces into schools, rope in youths as …

Not a child’s play to stand up against child marriage

After saying a no to her own marriage, Bishnupriya Pradhan is saving others from child marriage

Small incentive, big draw: How an officer makes PDS work

Jyoti Kakwani plugs pilferage in fair price shops by giving surprise gifts to those who demand receipts from the shopkeeper

Ground report from Gurrampanuku: This Andhra village ditched chemical fertilisers for cow urine

Ideation by an NGO, a little funding, collective labour help farmers in Vishakhapatnam go natural

Small farmers, daily wagers take to vegetable retail selling in Himachal due to lockdown

The development is being seen as a positive outcome of the COVID-19 lockdown

Thar’s friend: Meet tiny melon kachri

This drought-tolerant fruit turns short of gold upon drying and changes the fate of all those associated with it

Good news: Trees that bind families

An Uttarkhand teacher gives reasons to take care of plants after plantation drives

Physicists hunt for superconductors that can revolutionise world’s energy system

Superconductors can address the problem of unwanted heat produced from electrical energy. But there is a rider: they operate at ultra-low …

Solar lift irrigation helps Gumla farmers move away from diesel pump sets

More than 200 farmers in three blocks of the Jharkhand district went the green way to reduce dependance on monsoon rains   

Fight for survival: MP's Chutka village holds out against proposed nuclear power project

Dadu Lal Kundapa has galvanised 54 tribal villages to say no forced evictions for the second time in four decades

Every drop counts: How a cooperative turned 250 acres of Dharmapuri green

Cooperative forest in Tamil Nadu’s drought-prone area an example of the power of water conservation

Solar power lights up Sundarbans island

Six solar micro-grids cater to about 600 families in Satjelia island  

Why NGT’s calls on restoration of water bodies is need of the hour

National Green Tribunal’s 2019 order asking states to identify, protect and restore water bodies underlines the urgency to save them

Uganda becomes first African country to submit REDD+ results, paves way for payments

The mechanism by the United Nations calls for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

COVID-19 lockdown reduces Patna waste by more than half

An unfortunate side-affect is hundreds of stray dogs left to starve

Good news stories from Vietnam’s second wave — from dragon fruit burgers to mask ATMs

Throughout the first and second waves, Vietnamese business people and ordinary citizens have been coming up with innovative ways to respond to …

COVID-19 and green, open spaces: What is going to be our new normal?

Living conditions created under a pandemic situation are also a reflection of the inadequacies of our cities