Climate crisis: We are not individuals fighting a faceless system — we are the system that needs to change

Our interconnectedness also means that positive behaviours can cascade to influence many others

Renewable energy: It is crucial to honour signed contracts

Disregard for power purchase agreements will affect sector's sustainability

Davos 2020: Will sweeping protests across the globe lead to a new form of capitalism

‘Stakeholder capitalism’ may become a buzzword, but will it be a concept that can deliver

Antibiotic resistance: 'Some bacterial pathogens are resistant to all antibiotics'

Tobias Dörr, a microbiologist at Cornell University, New York, is researching on protecting beneficial microbes from antibiotics. He speaks to Megha Prakash on how antibiotic exposure can alter beneficial gut microbes

Use revenue-sharing model for development, land acquisition

Access to village commons improved livelihoods but some recent state policies seek to grab them

Looking beyond Pokemon Go: Augmented reality and virtual reality open vistas in medicine

Surgeons who experience VR simulations had improved psycho-motor skills and their performance in the operating room improved significantly

Renewable energy: Curtailment is a bane

If solutions to the problem are not found, it will add to the operational risk of renewable energy projects, discouraging investments

Adani Carmichael coal: Do we need it or not?

If we are ramping up coal production abroad at a time when the IPCC and UN say it should drop, we should know what we are getting into

Meet yaipan, the wannabe turmeric

Relish yaipan, a wild flower from The Himalayas, as food or as drug

Five points on food inflation and onions

Retail inflation hitting double digit being attributed to high food prices, but is it so?

Exclusion errors: Decoding the female face of agricultural crisis

Without empowering women in farming by recognising them as farmers and giving them land rights, agriculture can’t be sustained and so can’t the economy

Do India's poor need coal from Adani's Carmichael mine?

Not if it restricts the Indian consumer’s options to source affordable energy

A dolphin paradise, in the middle of chaos

Barely 45 minutes away from Varanasi, is a patch of the Ganga that is dolphin heaven

Migration: I am biased, for people

We must not build a divisive agenda on migration, otherwise it will lead to endless spread of hatred

Extinction Rebellion needs to build solidarity and work on its race problem

But it shouldn't be on a government watch list

Could invisible aliens really exist among us? An astrobiologist explains

A popular suggestion for an alternative biochemistry is one based on silicon rather than carbon

Strength from perpetual grief: How Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis

Any bushfire recovery policy must be culturally sensitive to the aboriginal people

Cipla shows the way, again

The pioneer of inexpensive AIDS drugs made a paediatric medicine that will save thousands of children

Farmers stare at another loss despite good rains. They need a boost from govt

Indian farmers have accumulated huge debts due to crop damages and less remunerative price for produce

Europe’s biomass problem

Wood-fired power will actually increase emissions over timescales relevant to the Paris Agreement

These places in NCR are making zero waste a daily commitment

Down To Earth profiles two initiatives in the National Capital Region that aim at reducing food waste and a number of other measures for making themselves zero waste