44 per cent of India's districts face rain deficit

Major food-producing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab are the worst affected

Go ahead

Six GM cotton varieties to be cultivated in three states

Come without your car

Synchronised rise of ‘bad air’ in cities of Indo-Gangetic Plain in 2020: CSE analysis

Landlocked region cannot rely on mitigation efforts by the National Capital Region alone, say experts

Odd-and-even 2.0 worked but farm fires and forest fires played spoilsport, says CSE

Takes on motivated and half-baked science

Hailstorm drives farmers to suicide

Over 100 kill themselves as large tracts of crops are damaged; food prices likely to go up

Punjab fails to monitor GM trial

Departments express ignorance about field trials for potato

Elemental woe

Sustainable agriculture: Punjab needs policies to support crop diversification

Growing maize instead of paddy can reduce water use by 60-70% 

Indo-Gangetic Plain residents live 7 years less than other Indians: Study

This is because air quality in the region fails to meet the WHO’s guidelines on particulate pollution

US environmental body proposes temporary pesticide-free zones to protect honeybees

A large number of bees are exposed to pesticide spraying when growers enter into contracts with beekeepers for pollination services

Northern power grid on the blink

States were cautioned more than 400 times against overdrawing electricity

Clucking in alarm

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the …

New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

Regulating living environment for public safety

Fishy deaths

Pesticide causes blindness in fish in Punjab

Peafowl deaths in Punjab linked to pesticides

Jan Aushadhi Stores fail to take off

Very few visit governmentÔÇÖs generics retail outlets

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 7, 2020)

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

India’s forest cover declines

North-eastern states and tribal districts witness unprecedented forest loss

Provide farmers with means to salvage wet grains, M S Swaminathan tells states

Agriculture scientist also suggests maintaining seed reserves for growing alternate short-duration crops

Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts

Uranium in food, water in Bathinda