E-waste toxins in mum’s milk

Urban people more at risk

Congenital defects

US court indicts vaccines with mercury for autism

Deficient programme

Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?

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 …

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

India launches action plan to reduce deaths among newborns

Plan aims to deal with preventable deaths in babies under a month old

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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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

Toys may not be all that harmless

Hunt on for toxins in toys

Committee set to test toxicity in toys in India

The missing public

How rural kitchen pays

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

Children under threat !

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

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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Pesticides in US farmworkers' children