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Oriyas fight winters with a delicacy covered in turmeric leaves
Sops in naxal areas
Researchers find new crustacean in Odisha’s Chilika lagoon
Parhyale odian is brown in colour and around eight millimetres in length; it has 13 pairs of legs
Balangir's distressed migrants
From a resource-rich area to a metaphor for poverty, the Balangir district of Orissa has covered a long distance. Plausibly, it is this journey …
GST breather for Sal plates, Sabai ropes
Tax on these two minor forest products, a source of livelihood for millions of tribals, has been reduced from 18 per cent to 5 per cent
Amphan now strongest-ever cyclone recorded in Bay of Bengal: US agency
Down To Earth could not directly verify this fact as the Joint Typhoon Centre in Hawaii keeps updating its warning and older reports are …
Telangana police rescues Odisha family held captive at Ramagundam brick kiln
The brick kiln owner allegedly held the family captive, beat them up and made them work without paying them
COVID-19 lockdown hits Patachitra artisans of Odisha crafts village hard
Artisans in Raghurajpur near Puri, who make the traditional paintings, have suffered huge losses due to the lockdown
Iron ore sludge pond breaks in Sambalpur
Paddy and vegetable fields and poultry farms inundated with iron ore slurry after wall of a steel plant collapsed
In photos: Steely women lead the fight against Dhinkia steel project
The fresh land acquisition drive launched by the administration in Odisha's Dhinkia for the proposed integrated project of Jindal Steel Works Ltd …
Odisha’s Nuapada a snapshot of how COVID-19 is affecting rural India
Nuapada distrct experiences lack of oxygen, callous staff, a swelling number of infection cases and deaths and an administration in denial as …
Education for tribals: A student from Odisha shows the way
Lack of internet connectivity, regular electricity supply: Access to quality education has remained abysmal in the remote tribal pockets of …
Odisha saw spike in king cobra sightings in human habitations since October 2019
Forest fires, human activity in their natural habitats and lack of prey could be possible reasons for straying
Lives and livelihoods lost to coastal erosion
The wrath of Bay of Bengal has rendered nearly 650 families from Satabhaya in Odisha homeless
Bhitarkanika census finds an increase of 15 saltwater crocodiles from last year
There are now 1,757 crocodiles in the park, the census conducted on January 3, 2020, found. Last year, there were 1,742
The Jengaburu Curse review: Intimate thriller compellingly brings environmental crises into mainstream
Director Nila Madhab Panda cleverly mixes documentary-style observation & information with the pace of a hyper-real drama or a taut thriller
Odisha’s hiked ex-gratia for deaths due to attacks by wild animals insufficient? Experts think so
The revision of financial assistance for animal depredation comes after almost a decade
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 30, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Have cyclones in monsoon become the new ‘normal’?
The tropical cyclones of category 4 have wind speeds between 157 and 200 kilometres per hour
Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink, lament Mahanadi flood victims
The affected are now facing an acute shortage of potable drinking water even as the spectre of disease looms large
Going under: Coastal Odisha under existential threat
In a warming world, governments are far from prepared to resettle people evicted by sea-level rise
Nandan Kanan: 3 tiger cubs dead in a month
The cubs were being hand-reared before their deaths after being abandoned by their mother
International Women’s Day: How women lead climate adaptation in eastern India’s Adivasi areas
Wattle and daub houses maintained largely by women in tribal parts of Odisha and Bengal provide cool shelter to families when temperatures soar
Black paddy, black lungs: How coal mining has wrought havoc in Odisha’s Sundergarh
Residents of Sundergarh grow black paddy,; their lungs are full of coal dust; their agriculture lands have been acquired for mining and the …
Byanjana Dwadashi: How a 500-year-old festival in Odisha symbolises community, food security and balanced diet
Byanjana Dwadashi is a Vaishnavite festival that commemorates an episode featuring Krishna in the Mahabharata