Blazing India: The sun beats down mercilessly on Vidarbha

With no rains yet and the heat wave still on, the situation in Maharashtra’s easternmost region has everybody worried

Daily Court Digest: Major environment hearings of April 10, 2019

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

How the Nanar anti-refinery protests in Maharashtra clicked

The protestors used diverse social, legal and political activism strategies and drove a hard bargain with the local politicians to convey the …

Some 100 people have died in Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra floods this week

A clearer picture of the death toll would only emerge later, with rains continuing to lash Peninsular India

Mumbai records 100 mm rainfall in 24 hours; IMD issues orange alert

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation reported the death of a person after a house collapsed in the Bhandup area of Mumbai 

SC lifts status quo on tree felling for Metro Car Shed in Aarey forest

This Court cannot be oblivious to the dislocation of public fund if a project like this is disregarded, the apex court said

Providing the poorest landless agricultural labourers with farm tools can ameliorate their lot

An intervention carried out in Nandurbar, Maharashtra showed that the labourers earned more, in addition to increasing agricultural productivity

Lighting up the fields: How electricity can help irrigation

Over the years, inaccurate estimations of electricity consumption have led to untargeted approaches being applied to optimise power sector

What Aarey case means for forest land classification

The question of classification of the land as forest or revenue isn’t relevant in the matter due to the SC order in the TN Godavarman …

Swachh Bharat Mission: Water shortage drives people in Marathwada to open fields

Maharashtra’s rain-shadow region has had so little rain in the last four years that residents don’t have enough water to flush …

Jharkhand’s community kitchens: Making a mockery of food security?

The state's Dal Bhat Yojana was meant to provide some food security to those struggling to make ends meet by providing them hygienic and …

Hailstorms, unseasonal rains damaged 4.76 lakh hectares of crop in February

Around 300,000 hectares of crops like jowar, gram, wheat and horticulture crops like orange, grapes, bananas and vegetables were damaged in …

Why India continues to use lethal pesticides

Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards …

Building on wrong premises

The plan to rehabilitate the victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Latur last year ignores the needs of the villagers and introduces …

Quake causes rift among seismologists

Seismologists may not agree on what caused the earthquake, but their views have made the government take up better seismic monitoring and analysis.

Indian farmers can take on the multinationals

Sharad Joshi, the well-known, controversial farm leader from Maharashtra, outlines a new strategy for agriculture.

Power pedaling

Indian cities are being engulfed by vehicular pollution. Under such circumstances, the electric autorickshaw and bicycle offer some respite

In support of Hazare

Politicians, social activists and non-governmental organisations rally behind Anna Hazare

"We hope to encourage alternative lifestyles"

Having successfully brought the plight of the peasants and tribals of Narmada valley into international focus, MEDHA PATKAR continues her crusade …

Maharashtra docs refuse to call off strike

Patients from rural areas throng city hospitals as health services come to a grinding halt

Maharashtra bans anti-tick medication temporarily

26 heads of cattle killed after being administered injection in Parbhani district

Is ban on onion exports lifted? Farmers say new notification political gimmick, past decisions recirculated during polls

Even if true, notification allows little to be exported, say farmers; new notice comes after furore over allowing exports of only Gujarat …

Earth Day 2024 is rightly themed to indicate conflict between our blue planet & the plastic waste monster we have created

Plastic turns into a problem as soon as its disposal is improper and it enters a highly dynamic environment such as the sea

Simply Put: Walk for water

Storage level: Live storage in India’s 91 reservoirs 16% of the total

As compared to last week, this week’s storage dropped by 3.66 per cent