Damage by raiding monkeys has become a menace of unprecedented magnitude. Down To Earth travels to Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh to understand what's causing this problem
Will India get freedom from open defecation?
Vyapam virus
Crop of debt
Tiffin career
Home-made and home-delivered food is a hit in Delhi
Shale trail
The US is seeing a shale gas revolution. Domestic gas prices are historically low and the US is on ...
No health without wealth
The latest NSSO data shows that people are being forced to take loans and sell assets for treatment as ...
Is illegal trade pushing the mongoose towards extinction?
Reports suggest that brushes made of mongoose hair are in great demand in several countries and are often smuggled ...
Long wait in the valley
Months after the devastating floods in Jammu and Kashmir, thousands of victims are still waiting to be rehabilitated. Meanwhile, ...
Two-minute wake-up call
Nestle's resistance to the nationwide ban on Maggi noodles shows why the country needs an urgent policy on recall ...
Trans Pacific squeeze
The Trans Pacific Partnership is a mega trade deal that closes the doors for India's trade options
Small sweet success
Farmers in the Western Ghats warm up to wonder fruit kokum after local organisations create a market for it
Kerala's protected, yet polluted lake
Though Kerala's Ashtamudi lake is a Ramsar site, government bodies and industries continue to pollute it
Big idea
Monsoon vegetable jackfruit has caught the fancy of entrepreneurs in India, one of its biggest producers
Neem-coated growth
The Union government's decision to produce neem-coated urea will not only improve soil health and agriculture, but also halt ...
Let the Sangai dance
A critically endangered brow-antlered deer found in the world's only floating wildlife park in Manipur may soon lose its ...
Madhya Pradesh's call to bamboo investors reignites debate over forest access
Agreements for planting bamboo over 36,000 sq km of forestland take away the rights of the community, say forest ...
Monsoon enters deficit phase
India receives its highest share of rainfall in July, making it critical for farmers
Forest fires getting more frequent. Is climate change the reason?
Green rating of coal-based power plants in India by CSE offers starting insights into the sector
Cuba first country to eliminate mother-to-child HIV and syphilis
Its policy of equitable, accessible and universal healthcare ensured easy access to care by pregnant women and children
Off to another bad start
A failed monsoon this year could mean sixth consecutive crop failure in most parts of the country. The government ...
A roar in captivity
A Ranthambore tiger wakes up the world community
Ten years of RTI: what do we know?
Right To Information cannot be the panacea to our problems if we do not re-evaluate our relationship with the ...
Breaching the threshold
How do we sustain our consumption patterns? And how can we feed the 1.2 billion living in poverty?
Net equality
A campaign to protect Net neutrality has sparked a debate on how to keep the Internet open to all. ...