Pulled up for LAXITY
Coma after death
Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question
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 …
Toxic spread
Arsenic contamination detected in Lucknow
Tannery workers in Kanpur risk DNA damage
Trivalent chromium, widely used in tanning industry, and thought to be harmless found to be the culprit
All cracked up
Teak rings uncover rainfall data
Gomti river is almost dead
Recently the banks of river Gomti in Lucknow were unusually abuzz. Some people were struggling to wade through the 'sewage-enriched' river to …
Tannery convicted
No need to make cellphone tower radiation norms more stringent, says government panel
Committee appointed on court's directions dismisses concerns over health impacts of EMF radiations, but calls for more studies on it
Dead end for diesel buses
Polluting public transport vehicles sent packing as apex court refuses to extend green makeover deadline
Breathing uneasy
Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …
World population touches 7 billion
Ten billionth baby likely by end of the century if population growth continues at current rate
In Short
Political parties use rural health mission scam stick to beat Mayawati government
Bahujan Samaj Party leader defiant blames UPA for the mess
Lychee, a probable reason for acute encephalitis syndrome
Viral agents of dengue and measles could also be responsible
Dark twist to bright tale
Three tigers die in a week under mysterious circumstances; total 32 deaths in two-and-a-half years; all in the forests of Corbett, a showpiece of …
Beware, dangerous pollutants are spooking your air
Pollution levels in major north Indian cities are either 'very poor' or 'severe'
Lucknow’s waterbodies perish at the hands of unregulated construction
Land records of Lucknow Nagar Nigam state the city has 964 tanks and ponds, a majority of which are unidentifiable due to reclamation
A zero waste toilet to achieve a clean India
Locals in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh consistently choose evapotranspiration toilet, a zero waste model which requires no human intervention over …
Khobarvel tea
These three state capitals have air quality as bad as Delhi
In the past eight days, Lucknow, Kolkata and Patna have recorded poor or very poor air quality levels
The Ganga gets highly polluted after Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh: Report
The quality of Ganga water in the stretch from Kannauj to Prayagraj was categorised as being extremely deficient in dissolved oxygen
Mainstreaming co-treatment of faecal sludge for reducing pollution in Ganga
Excreta of 73 per cent of UP’s population is not managed safely. Out of this, 48 per cent is dependent on on-site sanitation systems
COVID-19 toll: UP government may be undercounting its dead
Down to Earth visits an electric crematorium in Lucknow to uncover discrepancies in figures