Burdened beast: India’s donkeys are disappearing; here is why
A fall in demand as a beast of burden, and illegal meat and skin trade have caused a critical decline in donkey numbers
UP Dussehra downpour: 10,000% excess rain in 3 districts of state wrecks kharif crop
No initiative has been taken so far in the government and districts regarding the survey for compensation to farmers
Pastoralist Van Gujjars ask why they still need permit to enter their own land
Voices of the Van Gujjars have been silenced by restrictions in the form of ‘permits’
Building toilets won’t make India open defecation free: World Bank study
The research analysed attitudes of people in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur, all of whom had toilets in their houses. Almost half were unwilling …
Leave control, even effective pollution monitoring not happening at Delhi-NCR’s power plants: CSE
Make continuous emission monitoring system data public for air quality betterment CSE study emphasises
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 15, 2023)
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 (September 1, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 20, 2023)
Scientists in Bihar identify bacteria that can naturally treat arsenic in groundwater
The two types of bacteria identified break down a toxic form of arsenic to a less hazardous form
Farrukhabad children deaths show the rampant mismanagement in government hospitals
49 children have reportedly died in a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district hospital due to lack of oxygen supply, but the …
You can’t deprive people of food, livelihood: HC on UP slaughterhouse crackdown
Facilitating operations of legal slaughterhouses is important as that’s related to food and food habits, which is undisputedly connected …
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
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
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-…
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
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
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
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
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
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
Consolidation against commoners
After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2023)
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 10, 2023)