Under the scanner

Lost case?

Will more funds induce Uttar Pradesh to combat pollution?

Perpetually ill-prepared

Inept response as mystery fever grips Uttar Pradesh

India develops PPR vaccine

Against sheep and goat plague

Ignorance makes a maneater

Sweet victory

UPs cane farmers get to quote their price in a sellers market

Singur echoes in UP farms

Proposed freight corridor will displace 30 villages

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 29, 2024)

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 (May 10, 2023)

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

Uttar Pradesh plans its 4th tiger reserve in Bundelkhand

Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary in Chitrakoot district has no tigers of its own; but pugmarks are frequently seen as tigers from nearby Panna frequent it

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 10, 2022)

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

UP Assembly polls 2022: Why state’s ‘jobless growth’ decade will be a headache for new government

Trends over the decade indicate that the pace of economic growth is slow and not sufficient if UP wants to achieve the goal of becoming a trillion-…

COVID-19: Lack of shots, digital literacy hindering vaccination in rural UP

The state government has stopped walk-in vaccination, thus making it difficult for 60 million people who are digitally illiterate

Hand-holding must to make India’s jaggery units sustainable

Innovation in low-cost pollution-control technologies is needed for a cleaner and sustainable MSME sector in India

Delhi on the verge of another 'severe' air quality episode 

Calm surface winds and a decrease in the ability of the atmosphere to disperse pollutants have made conditions conducive for such an episode

World Migratory Birds Day: Save the gulls of the Sangam

Siberian gulls, who migrate to the Triveni Sangam in winter, die because of eating plastic; their habits also change when tourists feed them

COVID-19: Rural UP girls wait for schools to reopen to get sanitary napkins

With schools that distributed sanitary napkins shut, girls have gone back to using cloth 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 25, 2023)

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

Festivities, election rallies: What happened in the weeks leading up to India's 2nd COVID-19 wave

An account of last year's superspreader events illustrates how we may be in a similar sitation now 

Iconic city or concrete jungle?

A “clean-green” city project spread over 400 hectares in Unaao will prove disastrous for the choked Ganga

Romancing the trees

After trees of Delhi, filmmaker and tree lover Pradip Krishen finds his muse in Central Indian forests

Bad business all round

Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book

A few good men

Seven months of hard work and sheer dedication has made Pithoragarh free from polythene bags

Consolidation against commoners

After land consolidation was introduced, the landless poor and agricultural labourers, who depended on common resources, faced tremendous problems

A date with the palm

Savvy Soumya Misra spends a day with Mahoba’s palm collectors to find out why a card touches a raw chord amongst them