Associate Editor at Down To Earth (Web). His main interests include history, wildlife, culture, cuisine, theology and indigenous peoples
Namibian Genocide: Need to discuss, engage and bring about meaningful responsibility & culpability, says J M Moosa
Centre for African Studies (JNU) professor talks about implications of graves and artefacts being found on Shark Island, a notorious …
J&K: In a first, four snow leopards captured on camera in the Chenab Valley’s Kishtwar National Park
The Park is a vital corridor and connects snow leopard populations, enabling gene flow, say researchers
World Migration Report 2024: Climate impacts will force 216 million people to move within their countries by 2050
Climate change, while not the sole driver of displacement and migration, increases pressure on existing systems and communities
World Donkey Day 2024: Overtourism, feral dogs, conflict with herders & unplanned development threats for Ladakh’s kiang
Down To Earth speaks to Tsewang Namgail from the Snow Leopard Conservancy about the rare and iconic Tibetan wild ass
Siberia burning again; state of emergency declared in Irkutsk’s Bratsk district, Jewish Oblast & Khabarovsk Krai
Heatwave in 2020 caused ‘world’s coldest inhabited place’ to boil at 38°C; subsequent wildfires increased emissions …
Americas: Yet another country in Western Hemisphere turns right as Panama elects Jose Mulino as president
Mulino joins Argentina’s Javier Milei & El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele even as Donald Trump & Jair Bolsonaro hope to return to power
DTE Coverage: Cyclone Hidaya
Down To Earth tracked the cyclone as it formed in the sea and finally made landfall in Tanzania
East and West: Extreme weather strikes on opposite sides of globe in Brazil, Texas, Vietnam & Indonesia
75 dead in Brazil floods; evacuations in flood-hit Houston; heat dries up Vietnam while 14 die in Indonesia due to floods and landslides
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, escapes major damage as Cyclone Hidaya makes landfall on Mafia Island near it
No further threat of Cyclone Hidaya in Tanzania, says government; Kenya bans beach activities, fishing and swimming in coastal counties till May …
Hidaya has made landfall as per Kenya Met Department; but another depression is developing behind it
Mtwara, a coastal city in Tanzania, receives 140% of its average May rainfall in 12 hours
Complexity & agency in ‘Kobigaan’ need to be understood to know why gender gap continues in the art form: Priyanka Basu
Down to Earth speaks to UK-based academic on her latest book about a unique art form from West Bengal and Bangladesh
Cyclone Hidaya to slam into Tanzania south of Dar es Salaam; Ruto puts Kenya on alert
Kenya lies within Latitude 4° North and South hence it is safe from tropical cyclones; but Ruto says this will change
Non-human ‘doctor’: In a first, male Sumatran orangutan ‘Rakus’ recorded using medicinal plant to heal his wound
Finding shows medical wound treatment may have possibly arisen in a common ancestor shared by humans and great apes
DTE Coverage: Dam burst in Kenya
A dam in the village of Kamuchiri in southern Kenya burst on April 29, killing 45 people
North Dakota: 200 wild horses related to Custer’s Last Stand can stay in park where Teddy Roosevelt spent formative years
Herd had been considered risk earlier, with tendency to trample or overgraze vegetation used by native wildlife species, contribute to erosion …
Red Colobus: Conserving these Old World primates could help save Africa’s tropical forests, says study
Colobine species are leaf-eaters, compared to the omnivore cercopithecines; Africa has 17 red colobus, from Senegal to Zanzibar
Alok Shukla wins Goldman Prize or ‘Green Nobel’ for Hasdeo Aranya campaign
Hasdeo movement, spearheaded by Shukla, a model for environmental justice in India, says Goldman Foundation
Kenya Floods 2024: Old Kijabe Dam bursts after heavy rains in the Rift Valley; 45 killed so far
East Africa deluged as Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya receive massive amounts of precipitation
Amu Darya and Kabul river basins major sources of water for Afghanistan: Study
28.6 billion cubic metres of the country’s water is generated outside it, according to the study
‘Heavenly Horses’: Heard of the Akhal-Teke? Turkmenistan will hold a beauty contest for them today
Last year, the art of breeding the Akhal-Teke horse and the traditions of horse decoration were included in the UNESCO Representative List of the …
The chronicles of Sundarbans
Stories of daily battle for survival of people in the world’s largest delta
Contributo di accesso: Venice, sinking Queen of the Adriatic, will prevent ‘overtourism’ by charging you €5 to enter
The access fee is an experiment promoted by the Municipality of Venice, with the purpose of regulating the tourist flows in the historic centre, …
Aflatoon and the Avars: How modern science helped solve two historical mysteries
While modern imaging techniques helped point out Greek philosopher Plato’s exact resting place, genomics have revealed the social …
There is a probability of above normal temperatures during polling phases, says Election Commission
EC issues list of dos and don’ts for voters; also directs provision of facilities at polling stations to prevent heat-related health …
DTE Coverage: Run-up to Ottawa
As countries meet in Canadian capital to decide on a global plastic treaty, Down To Earth looks at various dimensions of the problem