Wildlife recall: Manas National Park's experiment with former poachers

Once in the grip of armed insurgency, a national park has lessons in wildlife management

Indian, African women living near national parks being sterilised, claims Dutch expose

Television series Zembla has also claimed that shoot-at-sight orders were very much in place at Kaziranga National Park

Warned, yet unprepared

States prone to floods have failed to implement management schemes, finds a performance audit of CAG

Comfort backpack

An improved plucking basket promises to alleviate muscular pain and fatigue, two major health problems faced by tea garden workers

Adivasis, Bengali Muslims worst hit by child malnutrition in Assam

Adivasis, Bengali Muslims worst hit by child malnutrition in Assam They have low access to nutritious food in spite of increase in number of …

Has forest cover really increased?

The provisional figures for India's forest cover are now ready, and Down To Earth has managed to acquire a copy. The figures, when compared to …

African swine fever: Forgotten contagion

Viruses, it seems, are at war with life forms. While the world is struggling with the novel coronavirus, another one has been killing pigs, …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 28, 2020)

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

Leaking Oil India well that caught fire yesterday should have been flagged earlier

Serious observations were made about Oil India project near Dibru-Saikhowa national park

Erratic weather teams up with COVID-19 lockdown to be double whammy for North East farmers

Experts see climate change footprint as villagers lose livelihood, shelter

Unceremoniously dumped

Assam's evicted encroachers show legal proof of residence

Assam govt casual towards rhino conservation

Assam in the grip of brain fever

Not ready to till

Silica in Assam's forest

AGP wants freeze on hydel projects

Assam party demands environmental assessment

Assam floods: Why is Lakhimpur district always badly hit?

Dikorni river from Papuma Pare, Subansiri river from Lower Siang contribute majorly to flooding in the district  

Preserving Assam’s indigenous culture: Government’s step for dedicated department felicitous

Greatest danger to Assam’s tribal identity is domination by western influence 

Kaziranga braces to curb human-wildlife conflict ahead of monsoon

Water levels rise inside the park every year, prompting animals to move highlands in areas of heavy settlements

Early warning a must to cope with floods

People along the Brahmaputra were prepared last week, while in the weeks before that, people in Kerala, Nagaland and Assam were not

Black beauty

Black rice is drought resistant and has rich medicinal properties. Manipur and Assam are reviving this variety

Jharkhand government fails to control spread of Japanese encephalitis

The disease which was confined only to one district till last year has now spread to 12 districts

Pumping iron

The training of women in the maintenance of hand-pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply …

Baghjan blowout shows why we need to fix liabilities

There is also a need to address inland oil spills through regulations

DTE Impact: Assam-based activist writes to Supreme Court; demands transparency on elephant transfer to Vantara

Vehicle carrying cow elephant Pratima and her calf had been stopped in Assam en route to the Reliance Zoo in Jamnagar, as reported by DTE