Articles & Op-Eds

A Down To Earth cover story on the infamous Copenhagen climate conference.

A Down To Earth cover story on the Poznan climate conference.

India’s first publicly released laboratory study that checked the residues on antibiotics in chicken meat and convinced the food safety authority to set antibiotic standards in fish, meat and milk products.

A laboratory study that highlighted the misused of antibiotics in food industry. The study found multiple antibiotics in honey samples produced in India and those imported from abroad. Post this study, the food safety authority set tolerance limit for antibiotics in honey.

A Down To Earth analysis on how food safety is defined and what’s wrong with the fppd safety standards in India.

This laboratory study highlighted the presence of pesticide residues in cola drinks. This study led to the setting-up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), the fifth in the history of India. The JPC report led to the setting-up of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

This laboratory study highlighted the fact that despite the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report, the cola companies were still not doing enough to eliminate pesticide residues from their products.

The laboratory study that highlighted the need to set transfat standards in edible oil. The food safety authority acted but quite late. India will now eliminate transfats in oil only by 2022.

A Down To Earth cover story that explored the social and environmental cost of illegal mining in Bellary, Karnataka.

A Down To Earth cover story that exposes the large-scale illegal iron ore mining in Goa and Bellary and the failure of the mining governance.

A Down To Earth travelogue on mining, people and environment. The story captures the impacts of mining in Odisha and Chhattisgarh.

A Down To Earth Cover story that explained the science and politics of refrigerants being played-out at the Montreal Protocol.