Today's breakfast: DDT

A significant proportion of food products in India, especially infant food products, has been found to be contaminated by poisonous substances

After an erratic monsoon, farmers in nine states struggle with pest outbreaks

Although most states in India lose five to 10 per cent of crops to pest attacks every year, the scale and intensity of the recent attacks is a …

Mr Prime Minister good news

The finance minister has said that the government is committed to double farmers' income in five years. Here are a few villages across the …

Farmers of Andhra Pradesh release their agenda for 2014 elections

Demand income security and sustainability, and redressal of grievances relating to land matters which they say are the biggest source of …

Deadly solutions

To die, Warangal farmers have to no longer consume pesticides. A mere exposure is enough to kill them

No pesticides

Farmers can save crops without pesticides. And they can earn more in the deal. sopan joshi records a great change sweeping through Andhra …

Sundarbans is cyclone capital of India: IMD report

Around 70% cyclones in the area from 1961-2020 were severe

India's disregarded wolves

The king of dry grasslands has nowhere to go

India’s forest cover declines

North-eastern states and tribal districts witness unprecedented forest loss

Leprosy looms

Latest survey dismisses government’s claims of disease elimination  

Stressed out

Few studies on hypertension, but doctors say it is rising

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

RTI assessment

Idea of farmer wisdom is relentlessly manipulated

As a visiting American academic, Glenn Davis Stone has put in over 60 weeks of field research on the impact of Bt cotton on farmers in Andhra …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 7, 2022)

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

Seshachalam killing: Hyderabad High Court orders fresh post-mortem

Killing of 20 people has also led to uproar by human rights activists who have called it a brutal police action

Swachh Bharat cess: A few states may not agree on it

Except Andhra Pradesh and Uttarakhand, no other state has directly agreed to the central proposal

Half-baked mega project

Power-starved Andhra Pradesh’s big lift irrigation schemes hinge on availability of electricity

Effluent treatment plants have not proved effective

Tishya Chatterjee , member secretary, Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) spoke to Manish Tiwari on the presence of persistent …

Time Locked

Government watershed programmes run for a limited period. The impractical timeframe threatens to undo the goodwork

Sustained Conservation

Only a strong political commitment for water conservation will ensure the survival of these structures

Steeplechase

There is euphoria in the villages which have harvested rain. Overcoming hurdles, village communities learn the first lesson in water management

The road ahead

The current method of environmental regulation has failed to monitor industrial pollution in India. It is not just ineffective but expensive too. …

Spreading root

OLD ROOTS, NEW SHOOTS: A STUDY OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ANDHRA PRADESH·C S Rangachari and S D Mukherji·Winrock International …

Telangana Bill tabled in Andhra Pradesh Assembly

Chaos and pandemonium disrupts discussion