India must conserve its orchid wealth

Earnest measures are needed, involving awareness efforts among all stakeholders

Promoting input-based enterprises to spread organic farming

Promotion around locally available options can be sustainable solution 

All you need to know about Universal Basic Income

Here’s a lowdown on what the basic income scheme is and what it entails

Damned bodyblow

The proposed Rathong Chu dam in Sikkim is a potential threat to the state's environment

Blind carnage

Drums, cymbals and stories

Kaushik Das Gupta attends a festival that celebrates endangered stories

Sikkim’s Chungthang dam collapse signals the need for dam safety & emissions reduction

Any hydroelectric project situated downstream of unstable lakes carries the risk of being washed away.

Rift valley

COVID-19: North Bengal tourism takes a hit as wildlife parks keep visitors out

Hotels and homestays empty; shut sanctuaries hit businesses 

Sikkim is 100% organic! Take a second look

The state's transition to organic farming is yet to become a true success

Organic states

Mizoram passes legislation to go fully organic, Sikkim already on the path

Suspended

...in utter neglect - the state of state pollution control boards

Northeast scores in ecology

Rice that binds

Linking Up

Development of a protected area network is necessary to save the plants and animals of Sikkim

Fruit grain

Smuggling species

Mother Chokie

On a tardy trail: State of organic farming in India

Area under organic cultivation is 2% of the net sown area in the country

Bhotiya's show the way

International Red Panda Day: How safe are India's Red Pandas?

The cute and cuddly carnivore is threatened by a host of factors 

Don't let the carbon go

Be careful how land-use and land-cover changes

Rhododendrons losing ground

14 species native to Himalayas are critically endangered

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 11, 2023)

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

Junk stops here

Meet bureaucrat Yishey D Yongda, determined to turn Sikkim into a zero-waste zone