Associate Editor, Down To Earth
Body Burden: Antibiotic Resistance - State of India’s Health
Body Burden is a theme-based, biannual report. This year’s theme is antibiotic resistance. The book will look at the state of antibiotic …
In black and white: Why racism and ‘race science’ needs to be debunked
Every myth propagated by race science has been debunked over decades. But today, the rise of the Far-right parties is giving race scientists a …
‘There could be a racist backlash to the current anti-racism movements’
Race science has been used to justify colonial occupation, slavery, genocide; it became so ingrained that we still live with its devastating …
'Generic industry makes poor-quality drugs for nations with lax regulations'
Katherine Eban, author of Bottle of Lies, is an investigative journalist whose articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and …
असाधारण विविधता के कारण भारत में धर्म और राष्ट्रवाद दोनों लाचार: रुचिर
अर्थशास्त्री और राजनीतिक विश्लेषक रुचिर शर्मा ने पिछल…
Space Race 2.0: Orbits of debris
Space waste threatens the existence of all satellites
'Indian elections will always be unpredictable'
For 25 years, economist Ruchir Sharma has travelled the length and breadth of India analysing voting paterns, sociological landscapes and nuances …
'A dung pat is a mini ecosystem'
Author of the book Call of Nature, Richard Jones speaks to Down to Earth on the ecological significance of dung and why he chose to write a book …
'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'
Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Trees tells S S Jeevan about the phylogeny, ecological services, and the sociological …
Environment Reader for Universities
The book is totally based on the UGC syllabus for environmental studies for undergraduates; and it comes to you from CSE, an NGO whose primary …
CLIMATE CHANGE NOW - The Story of Carbon Colonisation
We live in the age of climate change—heat waves, extreme weather events, increase in diseases induced by deforestation, floods and snowfall …
Her inner quest
Jairam Ramesh unearths a hitherto unknown ecological side of Indira Gandhi
Polarising the polar
Ravaged by global warming, an ice-free Arctic is going to become the next battleground for economic hegemony
Real or fictional, these women are heroines of all time
From the spirited Bathsheba to Mandakini Amte, from unrecognised midwives and unsung domestic labourers to fearless tribal activist Sumani Jogdi, …
`We are teetering at the edge of a new era'
It is very hard to understand why we do not seem to grasp the immensity and urgency of climate change that is already unfolding around us, says …
Jokers in transition
'Climate change may render impossible what remains of traditional Inuit life patterns'
Stephen R Bown says 'Father of Eskimology' Knud Rasmussen's writings are literary masterpieces and constitute a priceless contribution to …
Will he beat around the bush?
He may not have a clean environmental track record. But as president, George W Bush will have to tread carefully
