Uttar Pradesh: drought of solutions to a flood of challenges
Poor health infrastructure, energy poverty and agrarian crisis are jostling each other to garner attention of new government
'Television had promised rain'
RAMESH YADAV, migrant auto driver, converses with NITIN SETHI on drought, media, politics and migration
Uttar Pradesh plans its 4th tiger reserve in Bundelkhand
Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary in Chitrakoot district has no tigers of its own; but pugmarks are frequently seen as tigers from nearby Panna frequent it
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 10, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal
UP Assembly polls 2022: Why state’s ‘jobless growth’ decade will be a headache for new government
Trends over the decade indicate that the pace of economic growth is slow and not sufficient if UP wants to achieve the goal of becoming a trillion-…
Hand-holding must to make India’s jaggery units sustainable
Innovation in low-cost pollution-control technologies is needed for a cleaner and sustainable MSME sector in India
COVID-19: Lack of shots, digital literacy hindering vaccination in rural UP
The state government has stopped walk-in vaccination, thus making it difficult for 60 million people who are digitally illiterate
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Festivities, election rallies: What happened in the weeks leading up to India's 2nd COVID-19 wave
An account of last year's superspreader events illustrates how we may be in a similar sitation now
Delhi on the verge of another 'severe' air quality episode
Calm surface winds and a decrease in the ability of the atmosphere to disperse pollutants have made conditions conducive for such an episode
COVID-19: Rural UP girls wait for schools to reopen to get sanitary napkins
With schools that distributed sanitary napkins shut, girls have gone back to using cloth
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 10, 2023)
World Migratory Birds Day: Save the gulls of the Sangam
Siberian gulls, who migrate to the Triveni Sangam in winter, die because of eating plastic; their habits also change when tourists feed them
Iconic city or concrete jungle?
A “clean-green” city project spread over 400 hectares in Unaao will prove disastrous for the choked Ganga
Romancing the trees
After trees of Delhi, filmmaker and tree lover Pradip Krishen finds his muse in Central Indian forests
Bad business all round
Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book
A few good men
Seven months of hard work and sheer dedication has made Pithoragarh free from polythene bags
Consolidation against commoners
After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems
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
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
North India rains: Crops ruined in Uttar Pradesh; over half a million affected by floods
Rains in India’s largest state have ruined crops such as paddy; sugarcane; mustard; potatoes and other vegetables
Maternal mortality in India: What do the recent figures tell us
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan have seen the biggest drop in maternal mortality
Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022: Is dung procurement a solution to UP’s stray cattle problem
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured the people of Uttar Pradesh that there will be no problem of stray cattle in the state after March 10