Urbanisation, low profitability: Why prices of tamarind leaves in Andhra Pradesh have rocketed

Government should come up with ways to make tamarind cultivation lucrative

Drought hit

Jharkhand’s water table falls three metres in one year

New report on skewed urbanisation in India

Nagpur plots pro-poor plan to help land grabbers

Farms in cities

A case for urban agriculture in India

Joshimath dispatch: Tales of woe emerge from a dying town; locals squarely blame administration

Many of those affected in Joshimath have suffered displacement for the second time

Berlin’s grassroots plan to renationalise up to 200,000 ex-council homes from corporate landlords

Shanghai-ed

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Letters

Urbanisation making us more susceptible to natural disasters, says global report

Calls for preparing communities and locals for possible disasters

Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies

The Himalayas are fraying — but an interdisciplinary approach can help us save it

Ecologists and agricultural scientists at recent conference in Meghalaya brought up impacts of human economy on hilly and mountain ecosystems

Joshimath sinking: Over 50% of Joshimath high-risk area, finds IIT-Roorkee

Part 4: A team from institute conducted tests at 12 locations around Joshimath to find cause for land subsidence

A glimpse of history by the Hooghly: What Denmark Tavern restoration means for Serampore

The centuries-old building has been turned into a historical asset, showing the way to conservationists

After Joshimath, now Doda? Land subsidence in Chenab Valley village; 300 evacuated

Government official tells Down To Earth situation is not similar to Joshimath

Simply Put: World Cities Day

Too many tourists in Himalayas; new report presses for pre-empting disasters

Built-up area in Himachal Pradesh increased exponentially during 1989-2012, says report

Is Urbanisation the best way to preserve the African environment?

A new report seems to suggest so

Making a beginning

Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage

Bangalore-Mysore corridor leads nowhere

Planning Commission report on groundwater downplays industrial exploitation

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Letters

The town farmers built