Science
Down To Earth
Real Potent Life of Lead
The long-term impacts of lead exposure have finally been revealed: reduced IQ levels and lower socio-economic status. For India, the implications are grave.
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April 16, 2017
Down To Earth
Primitive Classification
The Gonds, like other indigenous communities, still do not have sovereign political rights.
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April 16, 2017
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Suffocating Tragedy
There is no scientific consensus on the cause of encephalitis that has been claiming lives every year in the Gorakhpur region since 1978. But an unprepared government along with medical mismanagement made matters worse this year.
8 min |
September 1, 2017
Down To Earth
Goa Undermined
As mining resumes in eco-sensitive Goa amid protests, a village tries to implement the cooperative model SHREESHAN VENKATESH panaji
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September 1, 2017
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Sowing Adaptation
Farmers in eastern Indian states are replacing paddy with alternative crops to prevent elephant attacks. Can this experiment be replicated? DEEPANWITA NIYOGI palamu, east Singhbhum SAMARJIT SAHU angul
4 min |
September 1, 2017
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Can Farmers' Income Be Doubled?
For that, farmers will have to make an investment of ₹463 billion in the next five years
3 min |
September 1, 2017
Down To Earth
Mortal Combat
Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death.
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January 16, 2017
Down To Earth
Bid For Mahadayi
Should Karnataka divert the Mahadayi's water to end the water crisis in its three districts?
7 min |
September 1, 2016
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Unhealthy Climate
As the global negotiations increasingly talk about the impacts of climate change on health, the upcoming UN CoP meet in Morocco will debate one important aspect: how to fund health adaptation
7 min |
September 1, 2016
Down To Earth
Go Gokul Gone
For all the noise around cow protection, NDA's cow mission, the very first it announced on assuming power, has nearly died
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September 1, 2016
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Dry no more
Rajasthan has launched an ambitious programme to become drought-free in four years.
4 min |
March 16, 2017
Down To Earth
Genesis Of Water
Life on Earth is the result of several fascinating coincidences, of which the presence of water is considered the most important. But we are still not sure where this water came from.
6 min |
March 16, 2017
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Under Mysterious Threat
About 100 children in Odisha's tribal district of Malkangiri have died of viral encephalitis in the past two months. Is the state emerging as another hotbed of acute encephalitis syndrome?
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November 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Emerging Pollution Capitals of India
As Delhi chokes on bad air, other cities are not far behind
5 min |
November 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Fatal Test
A Maharashtra legislature panel's suggestion to make sex-determination test mandatory could derail decades of efforts to protect the rights of women and the safety of the girl child.
4 min |
June 1, 2017
Down To Earth
Landslide Trigger
Leakage from the tunnel carrying water to Parbati II hydroelectric plant in Kullu is just one way how the project threatens the landslide-prone area.
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June 1, 2017
Down To Earth
New Systems, Old Habits
Launched in 2014, the continuous monitoring systems for highly polluting industries were expected to usher in a new era of environmental governance in India. But poor planning, hasty execution and lack of enforcement have made the new-age regulatory mechanism a non-starter. Sanjeev Kumar Kanchan reports.
2 min |
June 1, 2017
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A Clean Miss
The new Swachh Survekshan ranking promotes cities with poor waste management practices.
6 min |
June 1, 2017
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Dry Run
Nutritional standards for the sale of camel milk, issued for the first time by the government, are a huge threat to the nascent dairy industry.
4 min |
February 01, 2017
Down To Earth
Out Of The Abyss
The recent surge in earthquakes and the explanation for the formation of the world's largest exposed fault have provided momentum to seismological research. SHREESHAN VENKATESH looks at the latest findings.
8 min |
February 01, 2017
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Warned, Yet Unprepared
States prone to floods have failed to implement management schemes, finds a performance audit of CAG
6 min |
August 16, 2017
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The Net Result Of Bonn Is Lukewarm At Best
The recently-concluded COP delivered little considering what the world has witnessed in terms of climate-induced loss in 2017
6 min |
December 01, 2017
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Drilling To Extinction
Unregulated large-scale mining activities have decimated plant and wildlife populations in the once-rich Saranda forest in Jharkhand
3 min |
December 01, 2017
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Employed But Poor
Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation
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December 01, 2017
Down To Earth
The Countdown Begins
In the world’s biggest-ever electoral exercise, the largest democracy has elected a new government. It’s not just a national occasion of celebration and hope; the world is closely watching India. The new government is taking charge when the countdown to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) has begun. In just 10 years—by 2030 or in just two tenures of a Union government in India—the world has to deliver on the ambitious 17 sdgs and 169 targets.For each of these goals, India has the pivotal role in defining whether the world will be able to meet these targets. That's because of the sheer number of Indians who are lagging behind in each of these development indices. So, for the new government it is not just a national development agenda, but also a global responsibility. Down To Earth has set a roadmap for the new government, which can also become a framework for the world to ensure development for all
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June 01, 2019
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Welfare Interrupted
Sloppy government attitude holds up a project and a technology that can manage faecal waste as well as generate clean fuel SHAGUN KAPIL VALSAD, GUJARAT
6 min |
June 01, 2019
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A Sweet Trick
The sugar lobby does not want an answer to the global debate on whether sugar is bad for health
4 min |
June 01, 2019
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Reverse Gear On Oil Palm
Sixteen years after the Supreme Court banned monoculture plantations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands' fragile ecosystem, the administration wants it revoked
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April 01, 2019
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March Against Asbestos
Though its use is banned in most countries, the asbestos industry continues to thrive at the cost of putting millions of people at risk
3 min |
April 01, 2019
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War zone Cauvery
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are once again at logger heads over the sharing of the Cauvery waters. Why have the successive agreements failed to resolve the century-long dispute?
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