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EnvironmentThe Central Water Commission's bulletin shows 178 major reservoirs at 68.58% of capacity, 24.53% below last year, with the Cauvery and Pennar basins deeply deficient.
EnvironmentThe Junnar forest division in Pune's sugarcane belt, where leopard attacks killed 56 people between 2000 and 2025, is testing reversible immunocontraception as a non-lethal way to manage leopard numbers.
HealthThe Global Climate and Health Alliance's assessment of 132 national climate plans puts India joint-bottom with Japan and New Zealand, noting its plan does not mention air pollution; Colombia, Nigeria and Cambodia lead.
OpinionIndia's protein market is put at about Rs 15,300 crore in 2026, yet egg prices rose 35-40% in a year. A Down To Earth column by Swasti Pachauri asks whether affordable protein is slipping out of reach of poorer households.
CropsIn drought-declared Raichur, a few farmers still grow up to eight crops together under the indigenous Akkadi system. A Down To Earth column by Lokappa Nayak argues their harvests show what yield-only measures miss.
EnvironmentDoodh Ganga, the Jhelum tributary that supplies much of uptown Srinagar, is losing snow and glacier melt while construction has buried part of its course, leaving households with dry taps for days.
Homestead farmingWriting in Down To Earth for World Food Day, Anushka Gurung and Sonam Yangchen Bhutia describe how Sikkimese households dry and store seed in everyday domestic spaces, and why that knowledge matters as hybrids spread.
EnvironmentThe Forest Declaration Assessment 2026 counts seven million hectares of forest lost in 2025, the sharpest annual drop since 2018-20, but a shortfall of 10.7 million hectares against the path to halting deforestation by 2030.
CropsWith a 28% rain deficit and reservoirs holding 200 TMC feet against a normal 462, Chief Minister Revanth Reddy says agriculture must give up a season so the state has drinking water until the next monsoon.
CropsOnce a day labourer with no say over her family's 12 acres, Sunita Nehare of Pachod in Maharashtra now runs the farm, raising cotton yields from about 1 quintal an acre to 7.14 with soil and water conservation.
HealthTests found hexavalent chromium at about 1,000 times the drinking water limit in borewells in Nashik's Dattanagar, where 109 of 248 residents screened have skin conditions; 17 electroplating units have been ordered shut.
EnvironmentA report by the African Tech Futures Lab urges a selective, location-specific approach to carbon dioxide removal in Africa, naming biochar and enhanced rock weathering as low-infrastructure options with possible farm benefits.
EnvironmentNusantara Atlas counted 1,061,746 wildfire hotspots in Indonesia by 14 October, above 2019's 885,037, with 895,657 ha burned by August. Smoke has reached Malaysia and Singapore.
