Bihar plans migratory bird festival to raise awareness about them

The festival organisers hope the event will help in keeping a check on bird poaching incidents by making citizens value them

COVID-19 lockdown spells trouble for Bihar’s litchi growers

Farmers expect to sell a quarter of this year’s litchi output

COVID-19 lockdown: 50 PDS shops sealed in Bihar for illegal trade

According to officials, more PDS shops will be sealed and action taken against shopkeepers in other districts as well  

COVID-19: Bihar fails to ramp up testing despite Nitish saying so

Efforts to ramp up testing seem to be losing steam; daily and monthly testing both decline 

Bihar govt teams carrying out operations against locust swarms

The insects have spread to 11 districts of the state in the past four days

Surplus rainfall a respite, but now Bihar wary of floods

The state received 305.9 mm rainfall in June — 82% more than normal rainfall in June 2019 

Kanwar lake, Bihar’s only Ramsar site, faces challenge of survival but not a poll issue

Encroachment and drying of the lake has badly affected birds who have lost their habitat

This summer, Bihar’s blackbucks won’t have to stray from their parched natural habitats for water

Local supply of drinking water will prevent them from wandering into human habitats & become vulnerable to poaching

Ground report: Climate disasters in Bihar, UP make children more vulnerable to trafficking

Trafficking rackets use climate disasters as opportunities, say experts

Deadly Nursery: North India’s children born and bred in toxic air

DTE reports from various parts of North India as children across the region grow up among contaminants

COVID-19: Bihar flood control works stalled amid lockdown

Several embankment repair and maintenance works hit as workers head back home 

Bihar man dies of swine flu in Patna hospital

Bihar has been grappling with COVID-19 and viral fever; On September 10, a 58-year-old man died of swine flu in Patna

Question mark over Bihar kids’ future as mid-day meals in limbo due to pandemic

Malnutrition and stunting among Bihar’s children could rise due to mid-day meals being stopped ever since COVID-19 struck

Hundreds of gharial eggs destroyed by floods in north Bihar

Two back-to-back cyclones in May, followed by early floods in June caused officials to release water into the Gandak river, thus destroying the …

Climate change is real: Heatwave to hit Bihar litchi, mango farmers

Litchi and mango need special micro climates; but climate change has upset this in the last decade, say scientists

Maternal mortality in India: What do the recent figures tell us

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan have seen the biggest drop in maternal mortality 

Trees, crops endemic to India can help combat air pollution: Study

Peepal, mango, neem, maize, safflower & pigeon pea are found to be most suitable for areas with higher levels of air pollution

West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar experience most polluted winter in three years: CSE report

Problem shifting to smaller cities & towns of the region, analysts note  

Air pollution eats into your life. This chart tells you how much

Forty-three of the most pollution-affected districts in India are in the Indo-Gangetic Plain; Leh is the least-affected of the 687 districts …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 18, 2023)

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

Scientists have started steering lightning with lasers — here’s how

Lightning kills thousands of people annually; only protection we have is lightning rods, which were invented 300 years ago 

This Champaran school shows the way for girl education, but has no govt support 

Set up in Kasturba Gandhi’s name, the school was neglected until eforts by activists six years ago   

Indo-Gangetic Plain, Meghalaya will need to use flood protection for 1,000 years: DTE analysis

DTE analysed the need for flood protection measures in India in response to a study on the subject published in Nature

Bihar scrapped APMC Act, mandi system 14 years ago; here’s what it did to farmers

Why are farmers protesting the government’s ’reforms’, ask many. A look at how Bihar’s farmers have fared may explain&…

Under-five and neonatal mortality: Variation between states offsets India’s achievement

68.2 per cent of all children deaths due to malnutrition, rates comparable to sub-Saharan Africa: Lancet paper