Snippets

Human touch in credit

The growth of a women's group that moved from being a savings unit to a social voice

World Water Day: In Alwar, community-based water management, recharge key to solving crisis

The water crisis has limited the farming season to just a few months

Prize of hard work

PACT POLITICS

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 17, 2024)

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

Sariska Fire: IAF fighting blaze with choppers; no tigers harmed, says official

The fire started on March 27 afternoon and has gone out ofcontrol

Breaking the ice

The long-standing people-wildlife dispute in Sariska Tiger Reserve is closer to a resolution

Split wide open

Officials, experts differ on cause of check-dam breach

Managing a crisis

People of the Arwari basin in Alwar, take proactive measures to battle drought

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

A political drought

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

Born Again

A rural organisation breathes life into the listless people of Melaghar village

Above All Differences

A caste-ridden society transforms the depleted forests into a green haven

Working women

In Guraiya village , it's women empowerment all the way

Costly silence

No one is debating where goats will graze

Rajasthan pollution board issues directives on waste disposal a second time

Municipal bodies deny receiving them

Green signal: 90% brick kilns in Alwar adopted clean tech

Nearly all brick kilns in Alwar have started using biomass fuel as mandated by CAQM

India's Cow Crisis Part 2: Threat of decline looms over livestock economy after 35 years’ growth

The circular economy of cattle has ruptured, threatening livelihoods of India’s poorest. The value output of the livestock economy is Rs 9.…

Climate change is destroying women’s lives in Alwar

A host of climate change-related problems bedevil the district’s women and girls, unlike men and boys

River of joy

Rejuvenation of the Ruparel river in Rajasthan has brought about a wave of prosperity in the region. The gains are manifold

Possessed by land

Landholding can affect marital prospects. It can also affect sex ratios and lead to polyandry. A village in Alwar provides a snapshot

'The mining lobby tried to suppress our voice'

Chairperson of Tarun Bharat Sangh writes about their fight against illegal mining that started in the 1980s