Down To Earth

4 days ago | downtoearth.org.in | Sangmuan Hangsing

Rescue operations by Indian Army in Manipur following heavy rainfall in early June 2025. In Manipur, the land suffers twice, first from barricades, bunkers and the invisible boundaries drawn by ethnic conflict; then from floods that recognise neither hill nor valley, map nor identity. swept across both Senapati and Imphal. Mudslides engulfed districts like Pherzawl and Noney, while newborns had to be rescued from flooded hospitals in the Valley. When nature strikes, divisions dissolve.

2 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Akshit Sangomla

Delhi’s Ring Railway network, with 21 stations, ferried passengers in a circular route starting and ending at the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station since the late 1970’s, until the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown in early 2020. The network’s revival could decrease the passenger traffic on Delhi’s metro and bus networks but it would need additional railway lines and a solution for the illegal encroachments on railway land at many of the railway stations such as Daya Basti.

3 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Rajat Ghai

Bengaluru and its immediate surroundings may have surpassed Mumbai as being the Indian metropolitan city with the largest leopard population. A year-long camera-trap survey found 80-85 animals in the forests and scrublands fringing the southern metropolis. The survey was conducted by Holématthi Nature Foundation (HNF), led by conservation biologist and leopard expert Sanjay Gubbi, according to a statement. It found that 54 of the 80-85 individuals are inside the Bannerghatta National Park (BNP).

3 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji

On World Environment Day 2025, as governments and corporations tout green pledges, a quieter truth demands attention: Women across the globe — and particularly in climate-vulnerable countries like India — are bearing the brunt of a crisis they did little to cause. A growing body of research has highlighted that of its devastating impacts.

3 weeks ago | downtoearth.org.in | Madhav Sharma

For the past three years, 60-year-old Dharmachand Jain has been commuting from Agarwal Farm in Mansarovar to Gopalpura in Jaipur. He leaves home half an hour early each day to walk 500 metres to catch the 9A bus, as there is no facility to reach the bus stand. “Many times, the bus is not on time, so I have to take an e-rickshaw or a magic van. A bus journey costs me Rs 30 daily but using a magic van or any other mode costs Rs 50-Rs 60. The monthly pass and lower fares make the bus more affordable.