Cooling tactics

Water body and trees around the building provide cooling effect

Follow-up

Play by the rules

Is the sponge-iron industry listening?

We found lots of muck

College students in Asansol, West Bengal put the area's drinking water to test

Abandoned mine behind highway collapse in West Bengal

Ticket to ride

Bound and gagged

'Aila was imperialist design'

Eat your oranges

Brickfields closed

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 12, 2023)

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

How COVID-19 is exposing children to traffickers

School closure due to COVID-19 has not only precluded many from access to education, but also from a source of shelter and nourishment

Cyclone Sitrang: ‘Unusual’ quickening of pace, say weatherpeople

T-20 in the last few overs of cyclonic system? Speed doubled within span of four hours between 2 IMD bulletins

Indian insurers listed among worst performers in climate sector globally

Cyclone Amphan fetched record insurance damages despite not paying three-fourths of claimed amount

Weak dyke floods Mousuni despite Cyclone Jawad fizzling out, 5000 affected

Mousuni is on the frontlines of global climate change impact and has suffered major loss and damage four times in last two years

Barges carrying fly ash from India to Bangladesh eroding Sundarbans: Bengal minister

Ghoramara island erosion cited as proof by a scientist; central agencies deny allegation

COVID-19: Disposing biomedical waste Bengal’s challenge at hand

The state is yet to follow CPCB guidelines on collection of biomedical waste of quarantined people

Cheers, agriculture is finally a political agenda in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi plays Santa Claus on Christmas Day, releases funds and discusses farmers’ problems as protests continue on …

Agroforestry boosts rice and biodiversity in India

In West Bengal, the adoption of useful trees into paddy fields has boosted crop yields and crop diversity, and has also sparked a movement that …

West Bengal labour department's tea garden survey kept under wraps

Excerpts and recommendations from the unpublished survey report of all tea gardens in the state that reveals miserable living conditions of …

Panchayat polls in West Bengal in July

Bitter fight between election commission and state government ends; questions over bureaucratic interference in Panchayat matters remain

From job card holders to migrants: Former MGNREGS workers in West Bengal lament loss of identity and dignity

Workers now falling back into trap of migration with no fixed jobs, income 

Deocha-Pachami mining project: Bengal CM proposes heftier compensation. Here‘s why locals aren‘t convinced

The project will impact 4,314 households

New fish species discovered in Bengal’s Digha harbour

It is the fourth species of Pterygotrigla genus reported in India so far

Power packed green

Leafy vegetable that is a great substitute for spinach