How effective is the global polio eradication drive?

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health …

National Centre for Advocacy Studies' new report 'Sponge iron industries'

Report>>Sponge Iron Industries Issues and Campaigns, National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune 2007

A looming biomess

Industry, government blame each other for green sector’s fall

Shallow scheme

Drinking water project peppered with flaws

High-risk trade

MFP is a renewable, reliable source of income, but faces many threats

Cyclone Mandous: Tamil Nadu on ‘red alert’ tomorrow as IMD predicts extreme rainfall

Chennai in direct path of cyclone; southern Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry coasts may also see significant impact 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 3, 2022)

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

Farmers in tech trap

Cotton cultivators are on a seed and pesticide treadmill that is draining them of traditional skills  

How effective are environmental PILs

Judiciary's pro-development tilt is making activists seek recourse at the societal level

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

No respite for Ridleys

Turtle excluder devices can reduce turtle deaths. But a web of politics and government laxity prevents their use

The meat you eat

A behind-the-scene look at how slaughterhouses in India dispose hazardous bio-waste by endangering the environment

Half a cervical cancer vaccine

Tests for early detection are more important in India

Bt-by-Bt assessment

On November 10, 2002, people wearing 'Bollgard' caps visited cotton farmer R Narsimha Reddy at his home in Aleru, a village in Nalgonda, Andhra …

COVID-19: NIRDPR, Unicef train 2.8 mln community leaders online

The programme aims to make village communities more aware of COVID-19

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

Granite greed

Frenzied quarrying destroys livelihoods and environment in Karimnagar

Protests against land acquisitions

Suit against dam

Hussain Sagar goes to toxic waste

Five years on, no progress on project to clean 16th century lake

Experiments in budgeting water

State is trying to get farmers to budget water

Chikungunya spreads its tentacles

Chikungunya, a viral disease borne by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has assumed epidemic proportions in large swathes of the country, especially …

Vizag gas leak: How styrene affects humans, animals

Exposure to 20 parts per million of styrene over eight years of working around styrene increases reaction time in subjects

RBI rejects Andhra's request for farm loan reschedule

Apex bank finds no reason to waive farm loans or loan restructuring after independent verification of the state's official data on farm yields

Plans for Andhra's scheduled castes, tribes remain on paper

No vision, no planning, no adequate allocation and utilisation of funds, says Cabinet panel report still under wraps