Urban ladder: How ODF India tries to manage faecal sludge

In the absence of adequate rural treatment plants, a few states rope in underutilised urban facilities 

COVID-19 Update: SARS-CoV-2 is predominantly airborne, says new Lancet study

Karanataka Chief Minister hospitalized after being diagnosed with COVID-19 for second time  

Rainfall trends decline sharply across regions in Karnataka

Madikeri taluka, where the Cauvery river originates, witnesses a decline of 10 mm rainfall per year

Two new species of moss rose discovered in south India

Both new species of Portulaca grow in sandy soil accumulated on rocky plateaus of Badami and Guledgudda taluks. They are restricted in …

Water scarcity, parched lands stare at peninsular India

South India reels from the worst drought in over a century. Our reporters travel to Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala to …

Ragi is back - but only as exotica

No body knows for sure how the ragi bandwagon started, but all of a sudden the urban elite became curious about the grain. Today, it is being …

Virtual realities

Bangalore is in the throes of a water privatisation debate. But the most critical flaws in a new plan for its suburbs have got missed out. s …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 1, 2020)

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

Dancing frogs of Western Ghats among most threatened amphibians globally

Like many other amphibians in the region, the genus is threatened by anthopogenic factors like land-use change, pollution

Air pollution a problem in south India as well: CSE analysis

The region cannot depend solely on warmer winters and sea breeze to escape pollution

Crunchy, juicy devil's backbone

The succulent can strengthen bones, while keeping cold and cough at bay

Odisha, Jharkhand mull iron ore e-auction

Follow Karnataka’s example which raised huge revenues through the initiative

Out of earshot

Who follows the public hearing procedures? Neither the government nor the project promoters

The written code

Based on public hearings, environmental clearances are given to companies concerned

Declared dead

Karnataka hospitals face closure for not treating waste

Breathless Bangalore

Experts criticise the Karnataka government for its inability to clean up the city's air

River politics: Krishna changes course

Money does grow on trees

Shady seeds

Illegal Bt cotton traders nabbed

Planting risk

Belgaum sponge iron plant disregards closure notices

Climate crisis in forests: Dandeli losing its distinctive grasses & hornbills to erratic weather

Rising temperature, changing rainfall pattern may have affected growth of plants essential to native ecosystem

Kharif season 2023: Crop acreage decreases in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh

The acreage of paddy, the main crop of the Kharif season, has decreased by 24 per cent compared to last year. There has been a huge decrease in …

Drought, but why: Karnataka’s water woes won't go away by throwing money on it

Across Karnataka successive monsoon failures in 2018 brought on dire straits for the farmers

9 human-animal conflicts every day in Bandipore, Nagarhole National Park

Most of these involved crop and property damage, shows data by the Wildlife Conservation Society

'Permaculture can feed the world'

A permaculturist who believes that hunger is more about distribution and quality of food than quantity and production, Malvikaa Solanki says …