Toilet-rich, water-poor

Santosh Devi, a former sarpanch, says attaining total sanitation for her village was easier than ensuring clean and sweet water

Sukhomajri's failing development model

A model Haryana village, which had pulled itself out of poverty by managing natural resources, shuns the very model of development

Policy Backfires

Policy design allows dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil to flourish 

Warring over water

While issues like Cauvery water sharing and Indus Treaty figured prominently in 2016, other inter-state water conflicts could be on the anvil as …

Enough is enough

For over a week after Diwali, Delhi breathed poison. Air pollution peaked to unprecedented levels. Public anger forced emergency measures. But …

Resistance-causing mcr-1 gene isolated in India

The gene is responsible for resistance against colistin, a last resort antibiotic used to treat human diseases

Crop Burning: Punjab and Haryana’s killer fields

Punjab produces about 19-20 million tonnes of paddy straw and about 85-90 per cent of this paddy straw is burnt in the field

Why certain parts of India churn out the best sportspersons

Haryana, with just two per cent of India's population, accounts for 20 per cent of its Olympic contingent

Fall of the poplar

In the backyard of Asia's largest poplar market, farmers are being forced to quit growing the soft wood as its price crashes because of overproduction

Unused toilets prompt Haryana to tweak Swachh Bharat Mission

State adds 'cleanliness' as important prerequisite for receiving subsidy

Gurgaon to get India's first smart grid, end use of diesel gensets

Currently, Gurgaon consumes around 350,000 litres of diesel every hour when there's a power cut

Supreme Court directs Centre to prepare national disaster plan to tackle drought

The apex court has directed the Union government to revise the Drought Management Manual at the earliest till the end of 2016

Odd-and-even 2.0 worked but farm fires and forest fires played spoilsport, says CSE

Takes on motivated and half-baked science

Wannabe Backwards: Reservations and the Agrarian Crisis

India's influential farming communities demand to be branded poor and underprivileged. Down To Earth unearths the real story behind this growing …

Labour exit

Labour shortage in agriculture forces Indian farmers to innovate to stay afloat

Paddy fields burning: Smog shrouds national capital

The smoke resulting from burning crop residues combined with vehicular emissions make the air we breathe deadly

Beware, dangerous pollutants are spooking your air

Pollution levels in major north Indian cities are either 'very poor' or 'severe'

Whitefly lesson

A few villages in Haryana successfully grow cotton amid widespread destruction of the crop by whitefly in the region

Toll contractor refuses to levy ‘green tax’ on trucks in Delhi

Says collecting tax from trucks entering Delhi as ordered by Supreme Court is 'an impossible task'

Supreme Court upholds pollution levy on trucks entering Delhi

The apex court will give an order on Monday based on directions prepared by amicus curiae

‘Our main concern is to stop on-street parking on some Gurgaon corridors’

Bharti Arora, Joint Commissioner, Traffic, Gurgaon, is the brain behind city’s car-free day initiative. She talks about how the …

Car-free Gurgaon, really?

It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city

Why dengue is not the devil

Lack of preparedness in our fight against this vector-borne disease is much to blame for it spreading fast 

Detergent detector

New test to identify synthetic milk

44 per cent of India's districts face rain deficit

Major food-producing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab are the worst affected