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Natural Disasters

Maharashtra heads towards a drier drought

While last year, the state’s 14,679 villages were hit by drought, this time 20,000 villages are already facing drought-like conditions

Climate Change

Rise after the fall

Sikkim, once the world's largest producer of large cardamom, is trying to regain its lost glory. Can it achieve the feat in the face of a …

Forests

In carbon negative Sikkim, emissions are on the rise

A preliminary report by the Sikkim government suggests the green state is carbon-negative, but emissions are on the rise

Agriculture

Centre washes its hands off drought relief by introducing new parameters

Thousands of villages in Maharashtra are water stressed but will not receive help from the Centre because they fall short of the new definition …

Environment

'Thunderstorm is the most challenging segment of weather prediction'

K J Ramesh explains how this season’s thunderstorms is due to a peculiar condition wherein heating in north and northwestern India has …

Agriculture|Farmers

ले मशालें चल पड़े हैं

हजारों किसानों के मार्च से घबराकर महाराष्ट्र सरकार ने आ…

Agriculture

Unpredictable weather, unreliable insurance, unbelievable profit to companies

Farmers across India suffered heavy losses when the monsoon turned out to be a non-starter. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the government'…

Agriculture

Harvest of losses

Will the loan waiver announced by the Maharashtra government help alleviate farmers' plight?

Water|Water Conservation

एकता के सूत्र में पिरोता सूखा

मानसून के दौरान बारिश की हर बूंद को सहेजने के लिए महाराष�…

Natural Disasters

Drought unites people

1,300 drought-prone Maharashtra villages build watershed structures on their own to harvest every drop of rain this monsoon

Water

Bid for Mahadayi

Should Karnataka divert the Mahadayi's water to end the water crisis in its three districts?

Environment

A risky route

A Rs 12,000-crore coastal road project in Mumbai is facing stiff resistance from fishers, urban planners and environmentalists. But, the …

Agriculture

In-depth coverage: Drought, but why

Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management

Waste

Mumbai's burning question

A week-long fire at the Deonar dumping ground has put the focus on Mumbai's garbage crisis. The answer lies in its unique partnership between …

Signal, interrupted

By allowing high-rises around an advanced weather radar in Mumbai, IMD sets a bad example for the rest of the country

Chlorine leak in Mumbai suburb sends 120 to hospital

Unclaimed chlorine cylinders at port trust premises were not neutralised despite warnings

The iron bar

Fluoride in water and food blocks iron absorption, leads to anaemia among pregnant women

Carriage of convenience

Metro projects can ease congestion. But lack of integrated planning is undoing the benefits of this mass transport system. Nidhi Jamwal and Ankur …

"Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai"

Pramod N Bagud (PNB), a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved (mkv), a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15-hectare dumpsite …

Sewage power

Mumbai's Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers recycles sewage to run the cooling towers of its plants

Melghat Malaise

This first of three Down To Earth analyses of tiger reserves finds Melghat in Maharashtra in a legal mess

Black attack

Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra's Thane district?

Simmering

Pottery units, papad -makers, leather workers, furniture makers, even dance bars: Dharavi is a bustling economy now threatened by builder-driven …

High and dry

Madhya Pradesh's amended rehabilitation policy may render dam-affected tribals of 14 villages landless

Another opportunity lost

This year's UN Commission on Sustainable Development meet provided no roadmap to attain Millennium Development Goals on water, sanitation and …

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