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Minor revolution

UP compensates five JE victims. Hundreds wait

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 11, 2022)

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

Will India's camels amble forever into the sunset?

Decreasing use of camels in agriculture and transportation, diminishing pasturelands and an erroneous legislation by the Rajasthan government is …

Poultry farm owners in eastern UP losing a rupee on each egg they produce

Farmers blamed increased costs of feed as well as those of power, transportation, labour and medicines for the losses

In a first, Uttar Pradesh begins otter census

Beginning in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, the exercise will end by the end of March, 2019

Fever kills 202 in Bareilly, district administration records just 28

The district hospital has one bed for every two patients suffering from fever and just two physicians to attend to them

Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh worst states to be born in

Infant mortality, neo-natal mortality and maternal mortality are much higher in these states as compared to national average

Jal Saheli: women water warriors of Bundelkhand

In the Talebhat block of Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur district, women have been made water managers. Their water conservation initiatives have turned …

Avartanasheel Kheti: Bundelkhand Diaries

A farmer in Uttar Pradesh's drought-prone Bundelkhand region demonstrates the benefits of mixed cropping

Skilled hands turn waste bark into art

The planting of commercially valuable chir trees has become embroiled in controversy in Ultar Pradesh's Almora district. But a local …

Forests of fire

The prolonged dry spell and the history of forest fires were clear warnings that went unheeded. And thousands of hectares of forests were charred …

UPPCB chairman appointed in violation of NGT orders, claims activist

JPS Rathore — a former state BJP vice president — was also not qualified to hold the position of chairperson, the activist claimed

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 8, 2020)

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

Dense forests lost; increase in net green cover: Forest Survey of India 2015

While northeastern states are the most hit, Andaman & Nicobar Islands gained maximum forests

Kumbh is fine but why not clean the Ganga all the time?

'Govt can ensure proper flow if it desires, and thus ensure a clean river'

Daily Court Digest: Major Environment Orders (June 15, 2020)

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

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 4, 2024)

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

Tigers in the Terai’s sugarcane fields are developing into an ecotype of their own: Rahul Shukla

Down To Earth speaks to conservationist who has documented and written about tigers growing up and surviving in the Terai landscape of northern India

Difficult for me to come to terms with the reality lived by Dom women on Varanasi’s cremation ghats: Radhika Iyengar

Author talks about her experiences while reporting for and writing her book, ‘Fire on the Ganges’, about the Dom community on the …

Groundwater in 12 Indian states found to be contaminated with uranium

Punjab is the worst-affected state with Haryana being the second 

Reading 2021 NCRB report: Jump in forest-related crimes in Jharkhand

Jharkhand registered the maximum number of crimes under the Forest Act since 2012

Can upcoming vulture centre near Gorakhpur revive UP’s numbers?

Success of the project depends on the commitment of those implementing it, they say

High levels of arsenic found in groundwater in UP

40 districts exposed to high concentration of arsenic in groundwater

'UP is core area'