Bengal buys dirtiest coal-based power generated in India: CSE study

TPPs in the state have not taken adequate measures to control pollution

Fast-developing nations still home to half of world’s hungry and malnourished people: report

Study also stresses on positive impact of sanitation on nutrition status of children

Arsenic just got dirtier

Exposure to arsenic also increases risk of hypertension

Yummy but harmful

Indian markets are flooded with foods that contain colours beyond permissible limits

Light boosts fish fertility

Claims a study on Catla catla

Cancer cure

Straight from the brain

Protests over nuclear land in West Bengal

First-ever tidal plant in Sunderbans in West Bengal

Sunderbansto have country's first tidal power plant

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Solar units beyond people's reach in Sunderbans

Green home

COVID-19 warriors: How a student group helped stranded migrants

A group of 30-odd students in rural Bengal started a forum with a helpline service, provided relief to 5,000 migrants across the country

Kalahandi Gram Sabhas write to NCST, invoke atrocities act against Jharkhand DFO

DFO illegally seized consignment of kendu leaves being transported from Odisha to West Bengal, federation of Gram Sabhas alleges

'We are using the sea as a dustbin'

The Indian coastline no longer belongs to its traditional custodians—the small fisher people. A jamboree of development—cities, SEZs, …

COVID-19, bad weather affect livelihoods in Bengal's Sundarbans

Inhabitants forced to enter forest areas that are home to man-eaters, other wild animals

Feted and forgotten: poster girl of Polio

Rukhshar Khatun is the last child to contract the disease in the country

Fall of golden fibre

An inefficient industry is marring prospects of jute, paving way for plastics

Damp, snowy weekend ahead: Minimum temperatures to rise, dip again from January 14

Dense fog and cold wave over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the next 24 hours

Blind spot in Namami Gange

By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. It's time the …

Fancy wall for Sundarbans

Government starts building massive embankments on the fragile delta using untested technology. Experts say the project benefits contractors, …

Book review: Profound primer

Providing a good text is the primary step, now that environmental studies have become a scheduled subject at the graduate level in all …

Fish and a philosophy

A cooperative in Kolkata shows the way for urban sewage management

"Tribal leaders are mere pawns in politics"

Tribal activist C K Janu speaks on adivasi issues and the Muthanga controversy

"Non-tribals need to be educated about tribals"

Veteran anthropologist B K ROY BURMAN in conversation with SOPAN JOSHI