Why is Zika virus infection rising in Kanpur?

More than 110, including four pregnant women, infected with the virus in Kanpur

Prime achievement

100 per cent accurate computer algorithm to identify prime numbers

Not all green is healthy

Allahabad HC directs Kanpur authorities to demolish mall, restore park land

The order comes 17 years after a petition was filed against construction of the mall

Friends of the river

Clearing the Ganga, is their mission even if it means fishing out scores of bodies from the river

Waiting to be cleaned

A treatment for AIDS

The US recognises an Ayurvedic treatment that can help combat AIDS

Zika virus explained: Should India be worried?

A nation-wide vector surveillance published in 2021 carried out by ICMR showed that mosquitoes in 3 of the 6,492 pools assessed were positive for …

Friends for a cause

A matter of costs

In a poor country, cost-effectiveness has to be the byword for municipal wastewater treatment. And the upward anaerobic sludge blanket …

Time to clean up?

An ecologically informed master plan for Kanpur may help the city deal with pollution

The Zika virus is here to stay in India, Kanpur just latest victim

The presence of the vector and the virus together makes India extremely vulnerable to Zika

Rakesh Jaiswal: 1962-2019

A Kanpur-based journalist remembers Rakesh Jaiswal, who devoted his life to making the Ganga clean in its most polluted stretch

Bringing the basics to a neglected slum

An NGO is helping residents of a Kanpur slum to get amenities like drinking water, latrines and medical care

A miserable place to live

Kanpur's residents breathe polluted air and drink water of dismal quality, but do nothing

Ganga's burden of pollutants from Kanpur to Varanasi

A visit to the tanneries in Kanpur and some of the sewage treatment plants and drains along the Ganga reveals the extent of pollution and the …

Immersion of monk’s body in Ganga attracts criticism

Virakta Maharaj, known as Shobhan Sarkaar among his devotees, often expressed wishes of having his body immersed in the Ganga

A holiday in bad air

Book>> Visit Sunny Chernobyl And Other Adventures In The World’s Most Polluted Places • by Andrew Blackwell • Rodale Books &…

The Menace Within

Project to review the impact of indoor air pollution

Kumbh’s over, now God save the Ganga

Kanpur's tanneries, shut down during the pilgrimage, have reopened and are polluting the river again: sources

Are we better equipped to assess air quality in 2019?

The use of technology in addressing air pollution has been growing at an incredible pace, but then the scale of the problem has also grown and …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 3, 2022)

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

Smog envelops India's smaller cities

A recent release from the Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh, January 2003, presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian …

Hope or hype?

Guarded optimism greets new biomedical waste treatment facility near Kanpur

Frequency check

Frequency-based methods can improve noise-control laws