Pesticide-ridden Punjab to begin cancer registration

It’s mid-May and it isn’t as hot as it normally is. Here’s why

354 heavy rainfall events across India in just two months

Pro-GM farmers stage protest near Parliament

Farmers' organisations demand rejection of technical experts committee report recommending indefinite ban on field trials of GM crops

Farmers move court against Gorakhpur nuclear power plant in Haryana

Plant site is fertile land and sustains 10,000 people

Long yarn

The cotton story is a tangled tale. In many parts of India, farmers are committing suicide. It's been a while Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and now …

Straw in the wind

Liability sans facility

Draft rules ask health centres to ensure their waste is treated  

Phorate poisoning affects people in Jalandhar, Punjab

Punbjab university plays host to pesticide lobby

Healthcare in Malwa in shambles

Ban paves the way

The bar on polluting brick kilns opens up opportunities for cleaner technologies

Dictated by land

Khap panchayats oppose marriage in same gotra to control landholdings

SC bans endosulfan, for now

Committee to submit report on the pesticide's toxicity in eight weeks

Antibacterial resistance: Don't compromise

The only way to combat antibiotic resistance is to keep the environment clean

Flat in 20 days

Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …

Suzlon, Lavasa raised loans from the company named in bribery scam

Scam led to arrest of several top officials of public sector banks

Polluters under MoEF scanner

Ministry bans setting up of industries in eight highly polluted industrial clusters

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 27, 2020)

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

AAP rides on drug abuse issue in Punjab

Activists say Punjab may lose an entire generation to drug abuse

On foot and pedal

The teeming millions on foot and pedal are powering mobility in Indian cities. Their numbers exceed those who use cars. Yet they are victims of …

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Sand slips

Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …

Lalitpur’s baby formula

Programme to promote breastfeeding improves health of children under two

Gamble for guar, soy

Despite demand and production, farmers lose to futures trading

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