Over 100 Odisha Gram Sabhas exercise forest rights, cut out middlemen to sell kendu leaves directly

Move helping villagers get better prices, ensuring on gap in collection of leaves from all areas and helping underprivileged tribes

‘Baseflow one of most important factors driving river flooding in Peninsular India’

Researcher Shailza Sharma explains flood dynamics in Peninsular India using actual river flow data

Organic experiments

Women of Maharashtra village experiment with organic farming to improve incomes

Simply Put: Real issues

L&T loses legal battle against KPCL over Sharavathi pumped storage project in Karnataka

Engineering giant alleged tender process for Rs 8,300 crore project was rushed; project major part of Karnataka’s plan for energy security 

Environment in elections: Deucha Pachami coal mine project in Birbhum unlikely to be an issue in May 13 polls

State government provided job largesse and promised financial help to local population to nip the movement in the bud 

Bhubaneswar metro: Will it be an effective transport solution or become the state’s white elephant?

Smaller cities need a much more comprehensive strategy to make metro systems viable

Environment in elections: Natural disasters overlooked in Himachal Pradesh poll campaigns

Environmental issues at bottom of both major political parties’ manifestos for June 1 elections, but not discussed in speeches

Is ban on onion exports lifted? Farmers say new notification political gimmick, past decisions recirculated during polls

Even if true, notification allows little to be exported, say farmers; new notice comes after furore over allowing exports of only Gujarat …

The chronicles of Sundarbans

Stories of daily battle for survival of people in the world’s largest delta

Seeds from the past

For a decade, 200 villages in Odisha have conserved and grown 190 indigenous rice and millet varieties with proven climate resilience

Restrain parking demand for clean air

Pull the parking levers and make the vehicle users pay the right price to restrain insatiable demand for parking and to control congestion and …

Plastic’s toxic trail: ‘Indispensable’ polymer’s health impacts all-pervasive; petrochemical workers are especially vulnerable

Down To Earth visited Panipat’s petrochemical cluster to find how the area is in throes of a health crisis

CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Where does India stand in the global plastic treaty talks? An explainer

New Delhi’s position is largely unchanged from INC-3 in Nairobi, although it has introduced some new arguments; it is also trying to …

Plastic’s toxic trail: The curious case of India’s petrochemical refineries

India’s legislations do not mandate it to create a baseline health assessment of the population before setting up factories with the …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 25, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Environment in elections: Andhra’s Rayalaseema battling drought conditions for 4 years, but ignored in poll manifestos

87 Mandals in four districts classified as ‘severely affected’ areas with less than 50% Kharif and 20% Rabi operations seen since 2020

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal  

24x7 makeshift clinics, testing food, water at gatherings: How Karnataka is trying prevent cholera outbreak amid rising heat

State reported 33 cases of cholera this year, most in April; health department to conduct awareness campaigns, ensure supply of medicines, clean water

Up in smoke: Bandhwari dumpsite fire underscores need to overhaul waste management practices in Gurugram

The landfill caught fire around 8-8.30 pm on April 22, 2024

CSE-DTE at Ottawa: Regulating types of plastic products in Indian market is crucial to improve recycling

CPCB’s annual report for 2020-2021 had found India recycles only 13% of its plastic waste

Activists call out FSSAI for increasing permissible level of pesticides in Indian herbs, spices

Data for changing the permissible limit should have been provided, they say

Simply Put: Ghazipur landfill fire

This summer can be India’s hottest & most humid on record: Study shows 68% likelihood

‘Strong‐to‐very‐strong El Nino’ at the end of 2023 suggests the tropics could likely experience mean daily maximum wet‐bulb …

Punjab’s ‘Donkey Flights’ to the world’s conflict zones

Widespread joblessness explains why Punjab’s migrants resort to desperate means to reach their final destinations