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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