DTE Ground Report: How toxic industrial gas killed 11 people in just 15 minutes in Ludhiana

Down To Earth reports from ground zero in Ludhiana’s Giaspura and goes behind the scenes to find out how the city manages its water, …

Ludhiana’s Giaspura gas leak remains unsolved

An earlier report by MoEFCC, CPCB & IIT-Delhi didn't rule out the possibility of acidic effluent being discharged into the sewer

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (March 12, 2024)

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

Simply Put: Punjab cancer burden

Poisoned Punjab: DTE reports from state’s villages wracked by water pollution

Cancer and a host of other diseases afflict people living in the Fazilka, Ferozepur, Ludhiana and Muktsar districts of the state, DTE finds

How farmers united in Punjab and Haryana during the 2023 floods

For every farmer whose crop has been ruined, there is another one who is sending him saplings from hundreds of kilometres away

After broken dam wrecked this Punjab village twice, farmers decided to take matters into own hands

Overflowing Ghaggar river broke banks in July, destroyed Kharif paddy; villagers blame state government for disrepair

Moon River: The Chenab, a symbol of lovers, today symbolises pain of partition & consumerism, says Surjit Patar

Down To Earth speaks to prominent Punjabi poet about the Chenab as the inauguration date of the bridge over it nears

DTE Coverage: 2023 North India deluge

Down To Earth reports from the ground on why the hills and plains of northern India got inundated

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 9, 2024)

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

Simply Put: Vital organs of society

Farmers’ Protests 2.0: DTE reports from ground zero Shambhu border

DTE video journalists, Prabhat Kumar & Dhruval Parekh, at Shambhu border as Haryana Police fired tear gas on farmers crossing from Punjab

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 1, 2024)

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

Dip in yield, low protein content: PAU field experiment finds several problems with nano urea

Production can decrease further year on year if nano urea application is continued

A year since Giaspura: Ludhiana’s gas leak remains unsolved; activists say tragedy like this could happen again

No improvements have been made to the sewer system since the incident and the cleaning was last done six months ago, residents told DTE

Punjab’s ‘Donkey Flights’ to the world’s conflict zones

Widespread joblessness explains why Punjab’s migrants resort to desperate means to reach their final destinations  

Farmers will once again march to Delhi, decides Jandiala Guru Mahapanchayat; here are their demands

MSP, crop insurance, debt relief, repeal of Electricity Bill 2020 among main demands

We find several connections of sound to the environment: Radha Kapuria

Down To Earth speaks to Durham University academic and author about the influence of the environment on music, visual and the performing arts

Why have Punjab & Haryana farmers started clearing fields so early in 2023?

Usually, stubble clearance in these two states starts around mid-October and peaks around Diwali; but this time, extreme rains in September …

Poisoned Punjab: Residents from 40 villages in this town have been protesting for clean water for a year

Reverse boring from alcohol distillery unit polluted groundwater, allege villagers; no action against factory yet

Dry winter: Water levels in dams on Himachal rivers decline to half of their capacity; experts warn of thirsty summer

Snow & rain during December and January was supposed to replenish state’s glaciers  

From poor sewage management to overflowing rivers — Why is Punjab flooding so much? 

Latest reports suggest that as many as 1,480 people have been rescued from Ropar and 107 from Patiala

DTE Coverage: Pink bollworm’s cotton curse in India's North Zone

Down To Earth travels to the cotton fields of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan and hears stories of misery and death

Delhi PM2.5 levels rose by 68 per cent within a day in early November: CSE

Rapid build-up in short timespan able to tip air quality into severe category as local pollution already very high, says thinktank  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 17, 2023)

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