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Bedevilled Barak: How a Katigorah school is building resilience after 2022 Assam floods

India, Feb. 13 -- The higher secondary school in Cachar district suffered immense damage during floods more than a year ago This is the second part in a series of stories on the aftermath of the 2022... Read More


The world's spectacular animal migrations are dwindling. Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions

India, Feb. 13 -- Human exploitation of migratory species is the main reason why these species are in decline In 1875, trillions of Rocky Mountain locusts gathered and began migrating across the west... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 8, 2024)

India, Feb. 12 -- Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal Joint committee constituted to look into allegations of road const... Read More


As told to Parliament (February 9, 2024): Cancer cases on the rise in India

India, Feb. 12 -- All that was discussed in the House through the day The estimated incidence of cancer is increasing in India, Mansukh Mandaviya, Union minister for health and family welfare told th... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 9, 2024)

India, Feb. 12 -- Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal SC directs Maan Gram Panchayat, Pune to file affidav... Read More


Origin: This outstanding portrayal of India's caste system is hugely important to Dalit people like me

India, Feb. 12 -- Based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, it depicts marginalisation as a thread that connects race, class, caste and gender Origin , the latest film from acclaimed d... Read More


2024 peak year for Kyasanur Forest Disease, Karnataka health officials confirm as cases rise

India, Feb. 12 -- Cases higher this year due to low rainfall, expert says A viral outbreak of the Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), a tick-borne, hemorrhagic fever, is on the rise in Karnataka, state he... Read More


What India can do to strengthen community-based foster care for children in need of nurturing

India, Feb. 12 -- Lack of awareness involving village-level child protection committees, non-availability of frontline workers dedicated to child protection hindering uptake of foster care Parental c... Read More


Bedevilled Barak: DTE reconstructs what went wrong in Katigorah during 2022 Assam floods

India, Feb. 12 -- Unique geographical settings, non-functional sluice gates of the vulnerbale revenue circle ofCachar district led to inundation This is the first of a series of stories on the afterm... Read More


First GBFF council meeting takes baby steps for biodiversity

India, Feb. 12 -- Operational matters discussed, but nothing on resource mobilisation The first council meeting of the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF) took place recently in Washington DC, ... Read More