Simply Put: What’s your Plan B?

Simply Put: Twisters around India

Simply Put: India’s food grain story explained

Simply Put: Electricity a foreign concept

Simply Put: A taxing bite

Simply Put: Toxic creche

India’s cotton yield may be lowest in 15 years, to drop by 20%

Cotton Association of India attributes yield loss to pink bollworm infestation, El Nino climate pattern

As told to Parliament (December 4, 2023): PM10 concentration improved in 90 out of 131 cities

All that was discussed in the House through the day  

DTE Call For Action: Closing the waste loop for sustainability

The agenda for construction and demolition waste is to ensure collection of the waste, its transportation and its reuse and recycling …

AMR Awareness Week: Behavioural, organisational and environmental aspects are vital for containing resistance

Problem underpinned by complex drivers and behaviours; multisectoral and multidimensional efforts required

How colistin went from ‘holy water’ in medicine to ‘sewage’ of resistance

The antimicrobial resistance crisis is affecting even the efficiency of medicines like colistin, whose use is reserved for cases where other …

Simply Put: A celebration not so cricket

Simply Put: Your money, your healthcare

Neuter or cull? Meet in Delhi witnesses scuffle over ways to curb growing stray dog menace

In 2022, Delhi alone has reported over 51,000 cases of dog bites

Economic Survey 2023-24 through a green lens

Down To Earth's reportage on environment-related issues in the precursor to the budget

Budget 2023-24: Agriculture ignored, schemes for ensuring MSP-based procurement nearly ‘closed down’

Share of agriculture in the overall budget also fell sharply

Simply Put: Robbed away

Simply Put: Farm suicides in light

Not so green: How NGT-mandated panels favour polluters in Jharkhand

Majority of the stone crushers were running without an emission control system

DTE Call for Action: How has the rooftop solar potential and market evolved in India

India has seen significant growth in rooftop solar, most of it in just the last 3 years

What we know so far about the volcanic eruption in Iceland

There would not be the same level of disruption as 2010, experts say

Simply Put: Healthcare for all

DTE Reportage: How nano urea fared in field trials

A 4-part series by Down To Earth on what farmers think of nano urea

‘COVID-19 has become endemic in India’

But the world is not out of the woods yet

As told to Parliament (December 16, 2022): River inter-linking projects to provide irrigation to 35 million hectares cropland

They will also help generate 34 million kilo-watts of hydropower