Patna's new home delivery: pollution under control certificates
Bihar transport department moves in as car owners complain of few testing centres amid hefty fines
How climate change has increased flood events in India
Rise in temperatures would increase flood events in frequency during end of century (2071-2100), says a climate report
Medical waste incineration plant in Bihar’s Sone river bed faces public flak
The waste generated from 98 industrial units across Bihar will be transported to the proposed unit for burning, posing health risks to …
COVID-19, floods: Bihar stares at twin challenge with onset of monsoon
Bihar Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar held a meeting with top officials on June 10 to review preparedness measures
Hospitals in Bihar run out of space as hundreds of children admitted with fever
Most health experts have said the hundreds of children admitted to hospitals in Bihar not COVID-19 positive or infected with Acute Encephalitis …
Why Bihar needs climate-smart agricultural practices
Bihar is highly vulnerable to hydro-meteorological natural disasters as it has both flood-prone and drought-prone areas
Few takers for Bihar’s revised COVID-19 death toll
Most experts say the government did not count deaths of people at homes, in ambulances, private hospitals and rural areas
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 17, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Two Gangetic dolphins found dead in Bihar in the last 3 days
Both Gangetic dolphins were killed due to the ongoing mechanised dredging to deepen the riverbed, say residents
India’s kala-azar cases declined 98.7% since 2007: Health ministry
Around 99.8% endemic blocks in India have achieved elimination status, says Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya
Deficient rainfall in Bihar, paddy farmers fear drought, crop loss
Most of Bihar’s 38 districts are facing rainfall deficit, according to IMD’s data
Heavy rains damage paddy crop in Bihar’s Seemanchal and Kosi regions
Standing crops have been damaged in about 663,776.28 hectares due to floods, excessive rains and waterlogging this year
Proposed O2 plants in Bihar: 123; installed: 1
The state government had set an August-end deadline for setting up the oxygen generation plants
Royal Bengal tiger that stoked panic in Bihar villages caught
The tiger had strayed 130 km from Valmiki Tiger Reserve in villages of East Champaran district, Bihar
Bihar forest dept officials on toes after tigress kills 3
The tiger is wounded and weak, hence hunting down human beings, say officials; no trace of it so far
‘WONDER app can make the difference in improving maternal care’
Down To Earth speaks to gynaecologist and obstetrician Narmadha Kuppuswami about the WONDER app that she has developed
Bihar may introduce licences for borewells
The state is planning to introduce several measures, including making prior permission mandatory to fetch groundwater from borewells
Bihar cracks down on errant farmers for stubble burning
Farmers who burnt stubble will not get subsidies even as many blame mechanisation and dwindling cattle
‘Hands tied’: Why non-profits aren’t part of Bihar’s COVID-19 response
Organisations say state govt wants them to hand over relief material
Centre, US agency launch Forest-PLUS 2.0
Five-year programme to focus on improving status of forests in three terrains in Bihar, Kerala and Telangana
Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar need alternative sanitation system
Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way ahead
Floods cost India Rs 4.7 lakh crore in last 6 decades
At least 90% of the Assam’s districts are flooded and more than 50,000 people are in relief camps
Cyclone Yaas: Heavy rains may spell doom for maize farmers of Bihar
Bihar is likely to witness moderate to heavy rains along with high-velocity winds May 27 and 28
Bihar to get its second tiger reserve in Kaimur soon
Officials have been working towards obtaining the National Tiger Reserve Conservation Authority’s approval for declaring Kaimur Wildlife …
North India Deluge 2023: Heavy rains in Nepal cause erosion downstream in Bihar; hundreds displaced
Soil erosion due to ascending water levels in the Koshi, Mahananda and Ganga has impacted hundreds in Bihar’s Supaul, Khagaria, Katihar, …