Seeds from the past

For a decade, 200 villages in Odisha have conserved and grown 190 indigenous rice and millet varieties with proven climate resilience

13 feared dead due to cholera in Rourkela

Locals blame bad condition of drainage system and leakage of water supply pipes for outbreak

Ash pond breach in Odisha’s Jharsuguda destroys cropland; causes pollution in Hirakud Dam

Farmers not hopeful of receiving compensation as their counterparts are yet to receive it for the collapse of an ash pond belonging to …

Checking migration: Odisha extends MGNREGA-supplementary job guarantee to 10 tribal blocks

Job-seekers to get additional Rs 115 a day over MGNREGA wage; implementation isn't proper, says expert

Life thrown out of gear in coastal Odisha as Bulbul comes closer

Sea water enters coastal villages and Paradip port at high tide, inundating them

Simply Put: Extreme apathy

Simply Put: Sambalpur’s iron-rich fields

Leopard hide trade on the rise: 10 skins seized in Odisha in 10 days

All five accused arrested

Ecological economist and Padma Shri awardee Prof Radhamohan passes away at 78

His economic visions were shaped by the experiences of farmers

Simply Put: Silencing pollution

Two arrested in Odisha’s Kandhamal for trying to set forest on fire

At least 16 have been arrested in Odisha since March 5 for the same crime 

Odisha ordinance: Up to 2 yrs jail for COVID-19 lockdown violation

State amends Section 3 of colonial-era Epidemic Diseases Act

Simply put: Odisha rejects more than 10,000 FRA claims

New vine snake species found after a gap of 113 years

Vine snake is a slender rear-fanged snake with narrow heads and pointed snouts

Coal liquefaction: India’s ticket to energy independence?

The Indian government should facilitate in bringing leading foreign companies investing in domestic Coal-To-Liquid projects with private Indian …

How these two remote districts in Andhra are tackling wild elephant intrusions

The forest department in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram, which border Odisha, are doing their best to manage pachyderms that regularly stray from …

Odisha govt lures industries via land banks, alienates people from commons

Down To Earth travels to some of the areas in Odisha worst hit by a government-sponsored land grab to lure industries and investments

Heavy rains lash coastal Odisha as Bulbul nears

Fishermen have taken shelter in harbours even as farmers are harvesting paddy that has not fully ripened

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (October 7, 2019)

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

Leafy saga

Of the 106 species of leafy vegetables consumed in southern Odisha, 78 are wild species—each with a distinct taste and medicinal property

Ripe for a green economy

Forests are home, say women of Kodalpali, Sinduria and neighbouring villages in Odisha’s Nayagarh; they can build the economy of the future

World Rivers Day: Does a river exist for us only when it floods?

It’s important to spread river education in its totality, before dams and canals take over ‘rivers’ in the perception battle 

The invisible bhadralok

Field notes from a waterborne land sheds light on the lives of those bengalis who barely exist for the outside world.

Won’t allow bauxite mining on Mali Hill: Agitators ransack meeting in Koraput village

The Mali Hill in Koraput is the source of several streams, home to medicinal trees and is an elephant corridor, protestors say

Kendu leaf trade: Stringent laws needed to keep children out

The news of children working at kendu leaf collection centres often trickle in during April-May every year. Children are mostly engaged in …