That sinking feeling: Does monsoon have to mean deluge deja vu

Natural Disasters

Kerala faces floods for third consecutive year

Extremely heavy rain forecast in Idukki, Palakkad, Thrissur and Wayanad districts for the next two days

Natural Disasters
 Kerala deluge: Flooded districts were rain-deficit 24 hours ago
Governance
 Watery grave: How garbage, encroachments contaminated Guwahati’s only river
Urbanisation
 Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods
Climate Change
 Coping pressure: State of extreme events in 2019

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Wildlife & Biodiversity

Global Eco Watch: Mauritius declares environmental emergency
Global Eco Watch: Mauritius declares environmental emergency. Photo: pitioupatow @Maxwell_005
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
August 08, 2020
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Science & Technology

Book Digest: Mapping the COVID-19 story, human behaviour driving infections and more

Book Digest: Mapping the COVID-19 story, human behaviour driving infections and more. Photo: Innovative Genomics Institute
From accounts of previous epidemics that should have prepared us for COVID-19 to history of …
August 08, 2020
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Energy

Experts welcome Delhi government’s electric vehicle policy

The Delhi government August 7, 2020, notified the new Electric Vehicle Policy. Photo: Arvind Kejriwal Twitter handle
The policy aims to make a quarter of all new vehicle registrations battery-operated by 2024
August 07, 2020
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Environment

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 7, 2020)
Gavel. Source: Getty images
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high …
August 07, 2020
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Economy

Trade in tatters, Dharavi’s potter community struggles to stay afloat

As economic activity inches back to normalcy, country’s artisans continue to face a hard time

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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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डाउन टू अर्थ

कुडिमरमथ का उत्थान-पतन
बूंदों की संस्कृति

अंग्रेजों ने बर्बाद कर दी तालाबों के रखरखाव की व्यवस्था

कुडिमरमथ एक ऐसी व्यवस्था थी जिसमें तालाबों के रखरखाव के लिए श्रमदान किया जाता था, लेकिन अंग्रेजों की नीतियों ने यह व्यवस्था बर्बाद कर दी
Chulu: Unique gift of the mountains
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आहार संस्कृति: पहाड़ों का अनोखा उपहार है चुलु

खुबानी के पेड़ में फल गर्मी के मौसम में लगते हैं, जिसे सुखाकर पूरे साल व्यंजन बनाने में इस्तेमाल किया जाता है
कोरोना लाइव ट्रैकर: 24 घंटों में सामने आये 61,537 नए मामले, 933 की हुई मौत
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कोरोना लाइव ट्रैकर: 24 घंटों में सामने आये 61,537 नए मामले, 933 की हुई मौत

पिछले 24 घंटों में सबसे ज्यादा 10,483 मामले महाराष्ट्र में सामने आए हैं| जबकि आंध्रप्रदेश (10,171), तमिलनाडु (5,880) और कर्नाटक में 6,670 मामले सामने आये हैं

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Food

All about a glass of milk
All about a glass of milk
The white-coloured drink has made an amazing journey in history to earn its part in our …
July 20, 2020
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YOUNG

After bats, do not make marmots into villains: Expert
South Asia is home to the Himalayan Marmot. Photo: Flickr
The rodents have come into focus ever since reports surfaced of a bubonic plague outbreak …
July 07, 2020
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Waste recycling app fetches Diana Award for 13-year-old Delhi girl
Waste recycling app fetches Diana Award for 13-year-old Delhi girl
Freya Thakral’s Recycler App provides users a door-to-door pick up service for …
July 01, 2020
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Climate Change

When did CO2 become our planet's arch enemy?
When did CO2 become our planet's arch enemy?
Carbon dioxide was always essential for our planet, but when did it become too much?
June 16, 2020
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Protection be damned
Forests

Protection be damned

Protected areas across the world seem dotted with dams and more are to come up, going by this map from a recent study

Bite Size

Bite Size

Meet the pandemic that never left India

India recorded 36,240 swine flu cases and 1,833 deaths between May 2009 and 2010. Every year since a considerable number of cases and deaths have been recorded. Nearly 39,000 swine flu cases and an unprecedented 2,270 deaths were recorded in 2017. In 2019 too, some 29,000 were infected and 1,200 died across the country. In the first two months of 2020, 1,100 were infected and 18 died, according to the most recent data from the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme under the National Centre for Disease Control. Epicentres, meanwhile, have varied: From Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan in 2009 to Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in ’17, back to Rajasthan, Delhi as well as Gujarat in ’19.

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