Why India’s celebrating World Water Day and Forest Day is a farce

Instead of salvaging these highly essential resources, our country is busy butchering them

Wannabe Backwards: Reservations and the Agrarian Crisis

India's influential farming communities demand to be branded poor and underprivileged. Down To Earth unearths the real story behind this growing …

Simply Put: ‘Radio-active’ Punjab

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Direct-seeded rice: Why this water saving method failed in Punjab this year

Scanty rainfall, heat up to 48°C mar paddy prospects   

Climate change: Crop yields in Punjab will fall by up to 13% in next 30 years

A study by Punjab Agricultural University used rainfall & temperature data from 35 years to project the impact of climate change on 5 major …

Simply Put: International Day for Vulture Awareness

Simply put: Dalit women marginalised from mainstream politics, economy

‘In a world in which wildlife is so threatened, the Indus dolphin is a rare good news story’

Gill Braulik, who has been studying Indus River dolphins in Pakistan for over 15 years, speaks to Down To Earth about the future of the animal in …

Health in news on May 11

Panic over bad blood

In hot water

The Green Revolution and a dark Punjab

Punjab has paid a price for food security. The use of pesticides and fertilisers has resulted in a number of health issues for the state’s …

Punjab bats for direct seeding of rice. But will it help farmers?

Lack of migrant labourers in the wake of COVID-19-fuelled reverse migration has prompted state government to abandon traditional transplantation …

Punjab rushes to grant sand mining approvals

Clears environment management plans for 63 sites; mining officials cite shortage of construction material for show of haste

From snake charmers to agricultural labourers: A case of Haryana’s Saperas

They still carry the stigma of being a de-notified tribe; also, the law prohibits the catching of snakes now, they say

Scanty rain in India’s largest state; kharif sowing hit in eastern UP

41 of 42 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, except Varanasi, are reeling under severe rain shortfall, India Meteorological Department has reported

Hottest March in 122 years damages wheat crop across North India

heat is a temperature-sensitive crop that requires a cool temperature, especially in March when it is at its final stage

Kin of COVID-19 dead in Punjab refuse to attend last rites

State government trying hard to remove stigma attached to disease

‘Tandarust Punjab Mission’ a welcome move, but will it work?

Given the state government’s past record, one can’t but help feel skeptical

Why potato means bad news in Punjab now

A cycle of misery kicked off by demonetisation still haunts farmers as well as cold storage owners

Why certain parts of India shone during the recently-concluded Asian Games

Reasons as varied as a strong farming culture. patriarchal tradition and geography influence why sportspersons from Haryana, Punjab and India's …

Making sport of Conservation

To site or not to site

The fraud of the century