World Biodiversity Day: Why language should not be forgotten

Languages are a treasure trove of knowledge about a region’s flora, fauna and medicinal plants, say experts

Indian, African women living near national parks being sterilised, claims Dutch expose

Television series Zembla has also claimed that shoot-at-sight orders were very much in place at Kaziranga National Park

Mexico reserves 50% seats at all levels of government for women

Under the new set up, federal entities and the federal cabinet will have have an equal number of men and women

Saving a Caribbean Polly

Jon Paul Rodríguez, a Venezuelan naturalist, has been awarded the Whitley Fund for Nature’s gold award for his 30-year-long odyssey to save …

Indigenous islanders complain against Canberra over climate change

The residents of the islands located in the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea say the Australian government is not doing enough to …

'Frogs are beautiful'

Wildlife filmamker Ajay Bedi talks to Down To Earth about his recent documentary, 'The Secret Life of Frogs' that released commercially recently

India gets re-elected as observer to Arctic Council

China, South Korea, Singapore, Italy and Japan also have Observer status at the Council

Assam bans mining in Kaziranga after Supreme Court order

The apex court had issued an order on April 12, 2019, ordering a mining ban along the southern boundary of the Kaziranga National Park

The story of how Cambridge bounced back

A simple tale of how one of the world’s greatest centres of knowledge got to where it is today

Will the Indian Army’s Yeti post boost interest in cryptozoology?

For many in the academic world, it is still a pseudoscience, not to be taken seriously at all

Bye Bye Batavia, Hullo Palangka Raya

Indonesia will shift its capital from Jakarta to the heart of Borneo for environmental reasons. Down To Earth finds that this isn't the first …

‘Konkan’s rich biodiversity has lured poachers to its pangolins’

Vishwas Katdare is the founder of Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra, a non-profit operating for the last 26 years, mostly in Maharashtra's coastal Konkan …

Two female Great Indian Bustards satellite-tagged in Rajasthan

Scientists hope to get critical information on the birds through the satellite tags

Forest officials attacked in the Sundarbans

A party of officials led by the Divisional Forest Officer in the South 24 Paraganas were attacked with sticks when they tried to arrest an …

Arunachal's pristine river Kameng turns into dumpyard

Dumping garbage into rivers has become a concern in ecologically-sensitive Arunachal Pradesh, to the extent that the Deputy Commissioner of East …

Another species extinct: This time the Yangtze giant soft shell turtle

The last surviving female dies in a Chinese zoo

There are 150 Bustards in the Desert National Park, claims report

Wildlife Institute of India pegged the species' total population for the whole country at 150 during 2018

Narmada has been killed in Gujarat, say activists

Members of Vadodara-based non-profit say the river downstream of Sardar Sarovar is now seasonal and carries only seawater and sewage

Female turtle returns to Maldivian atoll to lay eggs, finds runway instead

The turtle laid her eggs on the runway of Maafaru airport itself, on Noonu Atoll

'Animals and humans have shared spaces in India long before 1972'

In the aftermath of a tragic incident in Maharashtra's Junnar, where 5 leopard cubs were burnt to death unknowingly by a farmer in whose field …

'Crocodiles are affected by low frequency vibrations'

Down To Earth interviews crocodile expert Adam Britton on impact of noise on the breeding and behaviour patterns of crocodilians

‘If trees are lost, giant and flying squirrels will lose their arboreal highways’

Three researchers talk to Down To Earth about the real danger facing India’s canopy-dwelling rodents

‘Indo-Nepal effort needed to prevent Ganges Basin fish from losing genetic variability’

Steve Lockett, a Mahseer expert, feels the two countries must pool in their efforts to preserve the freshwater fish stocks in the Ganga and its …

19 quakes strike Nicobar Islands within 10 hours

No casualties have been reported so far 

Stakeholders discuss measures to reduce elephant mortality from rail collisions at meet

Organised in mid-March, government agencies and conservation organisations at the meet also agreed to begin a series ‘focused workshops&…