In both urban and rural areas, girls and women aged 6+ were several times more likely than boys and men to do care work and especially domestic work
International Women’s Day 2024: How much unpaid labour do women take on in Asia-Pacific?
Highlights of Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2024
Making India’s 3-wheelers electric
Interim Budget 2024: Who got how much
Down To Earth plots the allotment for various ministries in the last budget before the general elections
Why air pollution is a threat to India’s economic and social well-being
It is affecting the health of the country’s future, its children
The sorry state of state bus transport in India
Overaged buses, mounting losses and low occupancy rate plague India’s 56 state transport undertakings
India 2023 Monsoon: DTE-CSE Report shows how rainfall occurred from June-September
An analysis of how much or how little precipitation took place in the 2023 southwest monsoon
Disaster a day: More from DTE-CSE Report on extreme weather in India in 2023
An analysis of which extreme events happened in these 12 months in various parts of the country
Disaster a day: Extreme weather in India in 2023
DTE-CSE Report on extreme weather in India paints a grim picture
Gassed: How air pollution is affecting India’s future
Air pollution is causing greater loss of healthy life years in children compared to older people, a ...
The Great Carbon Capture: All about India's carbon market
India’s lucrative carbon market is worth over $1.2 billion. It will only grow as the crisis of ...
The Great Carbon Capture: All about markets and credits
Carbon markets have the potential to unlock billions of dollars for Global South nations that need financing ...
State of migration: Cross border movement
As income levels and demographic trajectories change over time, the directions of migration flows change as well
State of Climate: Rising temperatures
State of Agriculture: Farmer suicides
Despite the Centre's promise of doubling farm income, the number of farmers committing suicide is the highest ...
State of Agriculture: Milk Inflation
Milk price in India has scaled rapidly in recent months on the back of unprecedented fodder prices ...
State of Agriculture: Increasing output
While India’s overall economic output shrank in 2020-21, agriculture and allied sector recorded an almost 10% annual ...
State of Energy: We still use unclean cooking fuel
One out of three—or 33.8%—households in India continue to use firewood, chips and crop residue as their ...
State of Waste: India chokes
In 2020-21, India generated 160,039 tonnes of municipal solid waste a day. Of this, 32% remained unaccounted ...
State of Food and Nutrition: Burden of poor diet
Globally, over 3,000 million people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020. Of them, 31.7%—or over ...
State of Extreme Weather: How was January-April 2023 compared to January-April 2022
In the first four months of 2023, at least 33 states/UTs reported extreme weather events. In contrast, 27 ...
State of Health: Acute shortage of doctors, lab technicians, radiographers in India’s rural health centres
India needs at least 36% more community health centres
State of Health: In nearly 14% hospitalisations in rural India, households pushed into debt to pay bills
While the government's share in India's total health expenditure is rising every year, out-of-pocket health spending remains ...
Key findings of State of India's Environment In Figures 2023