COVID-19 pulls fishermen back to Bengal, Amphan forces them to reconsider

Several fishermen in West Bengal have begun weighing options to go back to fishing harbours in other states where they worked

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 5, 2024)

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

Shudder islands

Harsh environment, government apathy are literally driving Sundarbans inhabitants mad

Panel submits draft of West Bengal land use policy

Recommends ban on government land acquisition for industrial use

System error

The death of India's cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

New tentacles

Stiff US law ruffles Indian marine food sector

As for the future

Is there hope?

Andhra pradesh

TAC betrays tribals at some tribal leaders' instance

Koel-Karo: Jharkhand

Leaders renege, but tribal collectivism holds forth

Singhbhum: Jharkhand

Jungle andolan amidst state repression

Question on employment guarantee scheme's success

West Bengal proposes alternative site for Nandigram chemical hub

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

Tourism plans for Andamans go on, tsunami notwithstanding

Coronavirus update: Bengal home secy claims community transmission in areas

The UK’s vaccine candidate and a Chinese one, both showed promising results according to research published in The Lancet 

West Bengal fares poorly in MNREGS

Only 25 days of work provided per family as against the guaranteed 100 days of work; wages paid late in 55 per cent cases

Kolkata evicts ecological refugees

Seven hundred squatters occupying prime land rendered homeless; activists demanding their rehabilitation branded Maoists

Stark difference: MGNREGS demand in West Bengal plummets on paper, but villagers say desperate for work

Work demand dropped to 2.4 million in 2022-23 from 13.2 million 2020-21

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

Shale gas: hype and reality

As the world rushes for the gas, scientists gather evidence of its environmental risks

The nectar poison we drink

Sunderbans polluted

Testimonies from Nandigram

Behind polluted Indian river stretches, inadequate sewage treatment

Rivers and streams in 31 states and Union territories in India do not meet water quality criteria