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Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 12-16)
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Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high …
August 17, 2019
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Economy

What is an inverted yield curve? Why is it panicking markets, and why is there talk of recession?
Markets know what has happens each time the yield curve turns negative. The idea of rates falling over time without a a recession will take getting used to. Photo: Shutterstock
The yield curve is a graph showing the relationship between interest rates earned on …
August 16, 2019
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Waste

Can plastic packaging be avoided? This initiative shows the way
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Interweaving sustainability, responsibility and social welfare, some enterprises offer and …
August 16, 2019
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Wildlife & Biodiversity

Canada goose, a prominent symbol of North American wildlife
A female Canada geese standing by her nest outside the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Photo: Saikat Kumar Basu
The species that feeds predominantly on aquatic and terrestrial vegetation has a pan-…
August 16, 2019
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India will shift to BS VI norms next year: What does it mean?

Since their introduction in 2000, BS norms for vehicular emission have got increasingly stringent
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कृषि शिक्षा से तबाह हुई परंपरागत खेती

देश में कृषि और कृषि शिक्षा पर व्यापक पड़ताल के बाद डाउन टू अर्थ द्वारा एक सीरीज शुरू की गई है। पेश है सीरीज की चौथी कड़ी- 
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सोलर पंप स्कीम पर पुनर्विचार की जरूरत

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Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and the Editor of Down To Earth magazine. She is an environmentalist who pushes for changes in policies, practices and mindsets

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India is the 13th most vulnerable country to climate change. These maps capture climate change impacts in the various areas of the country. Visual: Raj Kumar Singh
Climate Change

How vulnerable are we: Mapping climate change in India

This set of factsheets maps the potential climate change impacts on various agro-ecological zones in India

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Forest rights: Forgotten histories or deliberate ignorance?

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Forests
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Forest Rights Act: Let’s look at its impact on wildlife, politics

July 28, 2019
Here are different perspectives on what the Supreme Court hearing on the fate of “…
Economy
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Union Budget 2019-20 full coverage: Grey areas for blue skies, green goals

July 22, 2019
All of Down To Earth’s coverage on how this year’s Budget impacts India’s …
Environment
Blazing India: All about the killer heatwave

Blazing India: All about the killer heatwave

July 16, 2019
Before monsoon could arrive, the country recorded high temperatures and the sun was …

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