Down To Earth - May 16, 2023

Will The Aral Sea Ever Come Back?

Forty years of “creeping environmental problems” built up into a mammoth monster insidiously sucking the great Aral Sea virtually dry

A SILENT CRISIS

Years of undernutrition and a heavy reliance on rice, supplied through public distribution system, could be fuelling diabetes among tribal population

ARE WE THERE YET?

Model villages are Still far from the goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022

A FOREST DROUGHT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT

Severe dry spells in Indian forests have hit the livelihood of more than 100 million people

DEADLY TARGET

Health experts blame Centre's over-emphasis on women's sterilisation for the Chhattisgarh tragedy

ETHICS ON TRIAL

Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. While doctors and organisations conducting trials make big bucks, the rights and safety of the subjects are often overlooked

Village Democracy, Mendha Style

A nondescript Maria Gond village in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district can offer a lesson to urbanites on how to run a functioning democracy

HOMELESS HILSA

The ocean fish that swims against the tide to spawn in rivers is moving away from Bangladesh

IT's UNDERBELLY

India produces about 400,000 tonnes of electronic waste each year, growing exponentially. The country is one of the lead importers of all kinds of waste. Almost all of this is recycled or scrapped by the unorganised sector

ON SHAKY GROUND

Nearly half a million people living in and around the Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand have to be shifted to control underground fires