Mumbai deluge raises same old question: Why are Indian cities flooded again and again

Ignoring telltale warning signs and repeating past mistakes won't help.

Giant Viruses found in water samples from Mumbai

No cause to worry; all viruses are not disease causing

Centre, Maharashtra play tag to ‘develop’ salt pans

Will Mumbai’s vast open expanse fall to realty? Not yet perhaps

The problem with banning plastic

What is needed is to actually alter behaviour, if not preferences

Telangana govt puts restrictions on glyphosate sale

The objective is to curb the illegal use of herbicide-tolerant BT cotton

Mumbai receives 438% excess rain in a single day

4 people die as the southwest monsoon brings torrential rain to the city

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 4, 2024)

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

India’s leadership in climate resilience is rooted in its agrarian landscapes

Scaling up adaptation for farmers is a human, environmental, and economic imperative

Cyclone Tauktae shows why north Indian Ocean is now whacky

Cyclone Tauktae's pace of intensification and the duration of its roar were unexpected

Rains apart, blame the dams for Maharashtra, Karnataka floods: Report

Poor management of dams exacerbate floods, instead of mitigating them, it adds

Bullet Train: Gujarat activists take fight to the Japanese side

Write to nodal Japanese agency, ask it to share its report on the project

Simply Put: Broken Covenant

Maharashtra’s Raigad hit by landslide, 16 dead

More than 100 people are feared to be trapped under debris

Maharashtra may become 8th state to opt out of Centre's flagship crop insurance scheme

The state is considering rolling out its own insurance programme for farmers

Simply Put: Renaming potholes

All you need to know about Fall Armyworm attack on India, Africa

Here’s a round-up of what’s being touted as the biggest ever pest attack

Railway gauge conversion threatens Maharashtra's Melghat Tiger Reserve

Petition filed against proposed broad gauge conversion through Melghat 

India lost 204 tigers in 2023, most of them in Maharashtra: WPSI

India’s tiger population increased by 200 from 2018 to 2022, according to new figures released this year

Maharashtra unseasonal rains likely to damage onions, wheat, grapes

Along with a drop in price, the conditions will bolster pest attacks, farmers say

Excess rainfall in Nov-Dec, early heat: Why lime production was hit in Andhra, India's largest producer

Gujarat, Maharashtra also affected, prices to come down in a fortnight, say experts

Energy in news on June 5

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

India’s forest fires are getting bigger and hotter, like the rest of the world

There were around 340 incidences of fires on the last day of March 2022

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

Waghoba: How the indigenous Warlis of western India find the Divine in big cats

The Warli worship of Waghoba and their co-existence with big cats is an example of what has been stated in recent years: Indigenous peoples are …