Payment for Ecosystem Services: Himalayan states should demand more

Their demand for “green bonus” triggers the payment for ecosystems debate

After the People met

The Union ministry of home affairs wants to know: what is the Meghalaya government going to do about the 'People's Budget'?

Greens of Meghalaya

Cure for yellow stream

Green algae can revitalise streams poisoned with mine acids  

IMD flood alert for North East

States in the region, that received heavy rains due to Cyclone Amphan, are to get more rainfall in next 2 days  

An Act to commodify water

Meghalaya's draft water Act water omits conservation and management from the sustainability point of view

Erratic pre-monsoon, monsoon rainfall impacts North East agriculture

Kharif cultivation of paddy delayed in Assam, Tripura, Nagaland; Boro harvest was affected too   

Cyclone Hamoon: Deep depression in Bay of Bengal may intensify into cyclonic storm on October 23, says IMD

Isolated heavy rainfall over Mizoram and heavy to very rainfall over Tripura expected on October 23 and 24

Expect Assam floods to worsen in the next few days

Possibility of fresh floods in Meghalaya, Arunachal, Sikkim, north Bengal too

Climate crisis in North East India: How geography, rainfall variations define calamity course

DTE analyses geography of 8 northeastern states and shows what changing climate and rainfall patterns mean for the region  

Flood, again

Meghalaya government and environment activists blame deforestation in Garo Hills for recent flood even as official data counters their claims

NGT ban on rat-hole mining in Meghalaya to continue

National Green Tribunal refuses to lift ban, but allows transportation of coal already extracted

Scrutinising disasters

FLOOD STUDIES IN INDIA Kale, Vishwas S . Geological Society of India (Memoir; 41) . Bangalore . 1998 . 256 pp

A profane proposal

10 years ago, Down To Earth reported on the state of sacred groves in India (see: Down To Earth, January 31, 1994). Patches of forest protected …

Indigenous people in India and the web of indifference

On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we bring together the stories of exclusion, oppression, and at times, recognition

Why waste management in Northeast India needs an urgent overhaul

Specialised policies needed for mountainous regions;standardised national-level policies lack nuance for regional challenges

Swine flu spreads to Northeast; four deaths reported

Assam Human Rights Commission seeks report on steps taken to tackle, control and contain the outbreak of swine flu

Muted response

Hepatitis C is a growing problem in India, but government has no programme to manage the disease

No plutonium to go on

But government says full steam ahead

Scraping the barrel

No stock, nuclear energy programme in crisis

RED ALERT in nuclear India

India's pampered nuclear power programme is losing steam. Uranium stocks are almost over; people won't let the government dig new mines; all …

Smart cities: Testing ground for sensor-based instruments

Smart cities are much-needed platforms for on-field use and evaluation of sensor-based technology

At the crossroads

As the debate continues, the Northeast must stamp the decision: log out of forest bureaucracy and log in to local-based prosperity

The verdict

Read between the lines: the Supreme Court order has a development model hidden for the Northeast

The accused

Governments clinically interpret the ban to make space for the forest bureaucracy, alienating people from their own habitats