A date with the palm

Savvy Soumya Misra spends a day with Mahoba’s palm collectors to find out why a card touches a raw chord amongst them

The Ganga gets highly polluted after Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh: Report

The quality of Ganga water in the stretch from Kannauj to Prayagraj was categorised as being extremely deficient in dissolved oxygen

Chipko a distant memory

The women who led the landmark environmental movement 50 years ago, speak to Down To Earth

Simply Put: The closer you get...

Ground report: Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking

Trafficking rackets use climate disasters as opportunities, say experts

BLUEPRINT FOR SIKRI

Deadly Nursery: North India’s children born and bred in toxic air

DTE reports from various parts of North India as children across the region grow up among contaminants

Urban children in slums more vulnerable to health risks, says report

Centres that host most of these vulnerable kids need immediate attention

53 Foundries closed

Caught napping, again

Retreating monsoon leaves trail of death and destruction across much of India

Intrinsic link

Cancer linked to polluted water in the Gangetic belt

Harsh on the marsh

Uttar Pradesh's land reclamation project may hurt many

Mystery fever in UP linked to toxic plant

Not ready for rabi

Sugarcane stir

Uttarakhand bars Van Gujjars from enetering state forest

Mystery stricken

Fever killed 277 in Uttar Pradesh. No one knows the cause

Time for transition: NGT flags air pollution from diesel generators

The NGT directed Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board to take remedial action to ensure compliance of air quality and noise standards from …

Indo-Gangetic Plain, Meghalaya will need to use flood protection for 1,000 years: DTE analysis

DTE analysed the need for flood protection measures in India in response to a study on the subject published in Nature

COVID-19 is cruel to young and aspirational India

More than the pandemic, it’s the sheer abdication of responsibility from those in power that’s destroying the dreams of rural India &…

Swachh Bharat Mission: Persuasion pays off in Uttar Pradesh

Benda village sets an example by achieving ODF status before the state despite facing a severe drought

UP forest dept cites stayed SC order for eviction

Although activists and forest dwellers could resist this attempt, the notice that came a day after still didn’t have any mention of the stay

Court digest: Major environment hearings in February

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

Air pollution eats into your life. This chart tells you how much

Forty-three of the most pollution-affected districts in India are in the Indo-Gangetic Plain; Leh is the least-affected of the 687 districts …

Maternal mortality in India: What do the recent figures tell us

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan have seen the biggest drop in maternal mortality