Simply Put: How far will Nirmala Sitharaman's longest budget take India?

Down To Earth's Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto decodes the comparatives and superlatives of Union Budget 2020-21

Australia's smoke, around the world

Images from Nasa satellites show that smoke from the continent's bushfires has spread into the stratosphere and around the world, Nasa has revealed

Cold, damp and homeless in Delhi

As the national capital shivers in its coldest winter in a century, its homeless crowd around fires on pavements to pass the freezing nights

Wealth out of waste: The story of Bengaluru's rag pickers

These photos tell how rag collectors clean up the sprawling tech hub and boost recycling

Sambhar: The lake where thousands of birds died

Toxicity is being suspected, as is avian disease. But none are confirmed

Look how oil spill affects health, environment in Brazil

Oil spill has spread across 2,500 kilometres since September, and has reached 92 municipalities and 14 conservation units in nine states

Could climate change have brought Delhi's winter birds early?

Migratory birds, which should have come to northern India by November, have appeared in September and October itself

Nasa unveils the stellar cosmos

Here are some of the images the American space agency selected to feature “our fascinating universe”

Will India's camels amble forever into the sunset?

Decreasing use of camels in agriculture and transportation, diminishing pasturelands and an erroneous legislation by the Rajasthan government is contributing to the slow death of the camel

Amazonian wildlife: Collateral damage of the inferno

The fires that raged and are still raging in the Amazon rainforest, have had an impact on not just human lives but also animals

The Friday after; India comes out calling for climate action

Children and adults protest demanding better policies against climate change from government

Footpaths for pedestrians: Will these hurdles be cleared?

The Supreme Court recently ordered that all footpaths in Delhi be made free of any kind of encroachment. Here are a few ways residents have made it impossible for pedestrians to walk on them

Water levels recede in Kolhapur, troubles don’t

Damaged houses, no source of clean water are what residents of this flood-battered Kolhapur village came back to

Yamuna swells: More than 23,000 people evacuated in Delhi

These pictures taken on August 21, 2019 show how people living in low-lying areas of the Capital struggled as water entered their homes

World Photography Day: Every photo tells a story

A collection of frames, each of which has a tale from the nature to tell

Sealing the dragon's lair

Indonesia decides to close its Komodo island, home to the world's largest lizards, to tourists in order to conserve the animals

Simply put: Decoding Budget 2019

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis

Mining maims the mighty Aravallis

Illegal mining and real estate projects batter the 2.5 billion years old mountain range in just 40 years

Photo essay: The Missing Zangti

The Himalayan region is highly sensitive towards changes in global climate, and more than half of glaciers in Satluj Basin are set to vanish by 2050

Odisha village still reels under wrath of Cyclone Fani

Around 2 lakh people depend on the Chilika Lake for their livelihood, which is also home to 261 species of fish, 28 species of prawns and 34 species of crabs

Story of a cloth and why it’s important for menstruation

While several people believe that when it comes to menstrual hygiene, women in urban India are much better off than their village counterparts, it doesn't seem to be entirely true