The impact

Kerala's income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs

A long haul

Decentralisation in Kerala is the work of a persistent civil society

Sri Lanka grapples with elephant-human conflict

Worldwide legal wildlife trade increased by 2,000% since 1980

The trade has become highly unsustainable, a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …

Union Budget 2019-20: Blue sky thinking hits grey sky limit

New budget gives miss to blue-sky mission. Offers only a few sectoral hooks in transport and energy to nudge clean air action

LED bulbs to be available at Rs 10 instead of Rs 400

Government move aimed at making best use of the energy savings potential of LED lights

Last mile smile

Communities are coming together in Jharkhand to create vigilance mechanisms to enforce food entitlement programmes

Why we need to factor ecosystem services into economic development planning

The multiplier effects of healthy forest cover are enormous in terms of economic, social development objectives

Countries don’t report disease outbreaks soon enough: WHO chief Ghebreyesus

United Nations health organisation report on IHR implementation tabled in the 73rd World Health Assembly paints a mixed picture

Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job

Local bodies and activists in Bengaluru, Pune are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment 

Agartala to be first LED-illuminated city in northeastern India

Switch to LED-based street lighting is expected to save city corporation at least Rs 2 crore

World’s primary forests under threat

Study calls for international cooperation to arrest degradation of primary forests

Drastic step or careless move?

Bill allows regional rural banks to tap private capital

Chhatisgarh stalls PPP project to outsource diagnostic facilities

Centre refuses to provide funds; state government to review project

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

State of malnourished children

CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem

Global Eco Watch: ‘Strongest storm on Earth’ in 2020, slams into the Philippines

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Mystery disease claims 13 lives in Bihar

All of them suffered from sore throat and nausea; autopsy of deceased inconclusive

Free trade will bind India

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 7, 2022)

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

Bridging the gap

Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has …

Innovative administrator

IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Child labour: When do we start to rewrite their story

The day people really start believing that there can be no reason that justifies child labour, not even poverty — is the day the real …