Down to Earth (magazine) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:04:12 1 Special Reports published by Down to Earth
00:04:38 1.1 Endosulfan test, 2001
00:05:47 1.2 Pesticides in bottled water, 2003
00:06:59 1.3 Pesticides in soft drinks, 2003 and 2006
00:08:05 1.4 Pesticides in Punjab, 2005
00:08:56 1.5 Tests in 2009
00:09:06 1.6 Transfats in cooking oil, February
00:10:09 1.7 Lead in paints, August
00:10:48 1.8 Contamination in Bhopal, December
00:12:25 1.9 Tests in 2010
00:12:34 1.10 Phthalates, January
00:13:49 1.11 Antibiotics in honey, September
00:14:43 1.12 Power plants in Singrauli
00:15:27 1.13 Protests against garbage dumping in Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala
00:16:05 1.14 Right over Bamboo
00:16:39 1.15 Antibiotics in chicken
00:17:10 1.16 Thermal Power plants in India
00:17:48 1.17 Burden of disease in Punjab
00:18:24 1.18 Cape Town-like water crisis
00:19:00 1.19 Storms in India
00:19:41 1.20 Genetically modified ingredients in food products



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Down to Earth is Asia's premier fortnightly on politics of environment and development assisted by the Centre for Science and Environment and published from New Delhi, India. It was started in 1992 by environmentalist Anil Agarwal, with a commitment to make people aware of the challenges of environment and development and to create informed change agents. Sunita Narain a leading Indian environmentalist and director general of the Centre for Science and Environment is editor of this fortnightly magazine. 
The intent of the magazine is to present timely news, research, analyses and provide insight into grassroots-based environmental struggles that were only being sporadically covered in books and research-based publications. A key intent is to bridge the communication gap between science and policy, and between decision makers and practitioners across the wide environment-development spectrum.
The fortnightly format was created specifically to supplement the research, analyses and documentation efforts that were being undertaken by its associated organization, Centre for Science and Environment (founded also by the late Anil Agarwal in 1980).
The objective / founding principles of the magazine, as envisioned in the first editorial, was to ‘fill a critical information gap’ rather than ‘capture a share of the information market’ and to serve as an enabler in a chaotic world. Reportage and analysis is geared to enable an increasingly young India with information and analysis from villages, fields, factories and labs, places where the mainstream media has vacated.
DTE reports everything from two lenses – the environmental challenge of development, as well as the development challenge of the environment. The world's top experts and a network of over 60 correspondents report for the digital platforms. With nearly two million page views a month, the web edition covers all the continents. 
In October 2016, Down To Earth launched a Hindi edition of the magazine, with exclusive coverage as well as repurposed content from DTE English edition. The Hindi edition was launched to serve a long-standing need to serve the large Hindi-speaking audiences in the country, especially in the Hindi speaking heartland, and to begin a conversation on environment, development and sustainability concerns with them.
The magazine has been awarded for its cutting edge reportage, and its writers have won many national and international fellowships. 
Down To Earth Books is the magazine's publishing wing. It brings out two annuals: State of India's Environment and State of India's Environment In Figures. This is the country's only annual survey on environment. The later one is a completely data-driven annual statement on state of India's environment published every World Environment Day    
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