Frozen lakes home for influenza virus

Yellow fever outbreak feared in Ivory Coast

Bird flu alert sounded in Siliguri

In Court

Diseases rescue monkeys in Malaysia

Unmasking aerosols

Forget health impacts, tiny particles floating in the air are altering regional climates and affecting monsoon patterns and agricultural yield. …

Wahtech

But what has the state done?

Wah India

Arsenic

The real pandemic

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

Indian researchers decode function of non-coding part of human genome

Simple sequence repeats punctuate genome; discovery will help improve gene therapy

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Japanese encephalitis in Assam

Goat plague hits Kenya

Yemen to try new strategy to fight malaria

Yellow fever vaccine supply under pressure, says WHO

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Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

Curse of excess

Once a parched city, Jodhpur is today facing a deluge

Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

Walking or cycling to work reduces health risks in India

Study makes case for investment in public transport, pedestrian and cycling routes

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