Capital punishment

No breather in sight

Research reinforces theory that air pollution and smoking perpetrate asthma

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Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Climate change

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Sugar-stricken

Reducing the intake of sugar as per the World Health Organization's recommendation is a must to lower the risk of non-communicable diseases

Get your own vaccine

Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …

One in every two children in Kolkata suffers from air pollution, set to rise this year with AQI worsening

Rate of asthma within Kolkata teenagers highest among Indian major cities, first generation asthmatic children soaring

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

Toys may not be all that harmless

The missing public

Hunt on for toxins in toys

Committee set to test toxicity in toys in India

Run-up to CoP27: Parents revive demand to cut fossil fuel financing, urge leaders to prioritise child health

Last year a delegation of mothers presented a letter signed by over a million parents to the CoP president

Child labour: When do we start to rewrite their story

The day people really start believing that there can be no reason that justifies child labour, not even poverty — is the day the real …

Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…

Your early morning walk could be a risk to your health

Pollution monitoring shows green areas in Delhi have much higher PM2.5 levels than road intersections during the early hours

Children under threat !

Rising cases of respiratory ailments in children, due to air pollution, fail to stir the Indian government

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Pesticides in US farmworkers' children

National Family Health Survey out

The Gates accounts

Supreme Court bans sale of firecrackers in Delhi, NCR

The licences of existing firecrackers sellers will be suspended and the government will not issue new licences

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Toxic dump in Karachi talk of the town