In Photos: Tribal women in Odisha battle severe water crisis

The Hill Kharias of Odisha are a particularly vulnerable tribal group living in the Mayurbhanj district. The group lacks access to potable …

Simply Put: 40,000 trees cut for coal mine

International Women's Day: How self-help group — and a phone — gave Kuntala new lease of life

Non-profit Trickle Up’s pilot project put smartphones in the hands of poor women and helped change their lives

How do cyclones get their name?

The process of naming cyclones started when it became difficult for the authorities to alert people about the cyclones through longitude and …

Simply Put: ‘Warm’, not ‘worm’

Tribal women in Mayurbhanj earn a living making furniture, storage items from Sabai grass

40 buffaloes die of haemorrhagic septicaemia in Odisha’s Kendrapara

Locals blame officials for not acting on time, worried about livelihood

Fighting poverty : How jackfruit chips come to save Odisha tribals' day

Tribals resort to distress sale in absence of marketing facilities; the state trains 1,000 tribal women to prepare and sell jackfruit chips

Cyclone Yaas to hit Odisha coast on May 26 morning

Around 400,000 people have been evacuated from the coastal districts of Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak and Balasore

Non-sewered sanitation system in Odisha | DTE Water series

Odisha’s Faecal Sludge and Septage Management has become a model for other states to replicate

Simply Put: India’s forest guard

COVID-19 makes more than 2,000 migrants throng back to Balangir

District among those in Odisha that send out the most workers

Simply put: Farmers hunger strike

Simply put: Nature vs development

The maize debt trap: Why are tribal farmers in this Odisha district caught in a loop of debt?

Depleting soil quality and rising fertiliser costs perpetuate a crushing cycle of debt and marginalisation

How an Odisha community revived a mangrove forest to protect their village from cyclones

Over the past 12 years, the residents of Badakot have converted degraded land into a 25-acre mangrove forest that protects their village from …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 9, 2022)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 9, 2022)

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

Kendu leaves: 29 Odisha villages win complete autonomy, but still a long way to go

Most villagers earned more than Rs 15,000 this year, over seven times their past earnings

Odisha orders 48-hour shutdown in 3 cities apprehending community spread of COVID-19

Decision after person in posh Bhubaneswar neighbourhood tests positive without any travel history

Only 2 passengers aboard Odisha’s new Balangir-Bichhupali train: RTI

Balangir-Bichhupali track is part of Khurda-Balangir line and was inaugurated in January 2019

Sukapaika: Death of a river

How embankments have killed Odisha’s Sukapaika river that was the lifeline of over 0.5 million people  

Fish being dried illegally with formalin in Odisha, govt promises action

Those drying fish illegally say they do it to cut costs; govt planning to provide chemical-free methods to dry fish

It is legal, yet harvesting bamboo out of reach for these communities

Though bamboo can now be legally harvested, local communities are protesting as they face administrative hurdles

Seeds from the past

For a decade, 200 villages in Odisha have conserved and grown 190 indigenous rice and millet varieties with proven climate resilience