Predicting disasters: Technology behind early warning systems & countries with lowest adoption

Asia and Africa have the lowest share of countries with early warning systems

PM Modi: Climate action ambitions must match with action on climate finance

Calls for democratising climate action in a blog article

As told to Parliament (December 15, 2021): Mobile network connectivity in over 95% villages

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Hurun India Rich List: Malnourished and the multi-billionaires

The rich will only get richer, irrespective of the poor getting richer or not

Food security issue resonates in Security Council amidst conflicts

FAO chief says that fighting hunger and boosting rural livelihoods can lead to peace

Every second extreme poor in the world is a child

India has some 52 million children in extreme poverty, according to an assessment by World Bank and UNICEF  

Monsoon stretching longer, displacing more people in south Asia: Report

Disasters displaced some 61.4 million people in south Asia in 2010-2021, according to IDMC and ADB report

G20 Summit: 7 COVID-19 deaths every minute, rich countries urged to share soon-expiring vaccines

By the end of October, US, EU, Britain and Canada would have a stock of 240 million unused vaccines

Dictionary-defined ‘forests’ will be out of forest laws?

Government proposes amendments to the Forest Conservation Act reasoning current laws not encouraging plantation, forest creation and mounting …

UN: $200 billion increase in fund flow to developing countries for managing nature

It is one of many demands and targets that have been set through 2030 in the just-released official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework

Gains lost: ILO flags rise in child labour — the first time this millennium

Globally, 9 million more children are at risk of child labour by the end of 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic 

COVID-19 widened the gap in universal access to energy, clean cooking fuel: UN report

In 2030, an estimated 2.4 billion will be without clean cooking fuel and 660 million people will still not have access to electricity

Biden‘s climate leadership summit: What should 3 PMs from South Asia do

The South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis has issued this demand-statement for the three south Asian prime ministers who have been …

State of India’s Environment 2021: People and planet in peril

COVID-19 may become endemic, or will continue to erupt but in limited ways in certain geographies. But its trails are already disrupting the …

State of India’s environment: Environmental crime cases piling up, disposal slow

Over 50,000 environment-related cases pending trial. To clear the backlog, courts will have to dispose of 137 cases every day

State of India’s environment: Why farmers kill themselves

The back of the Indian farmour is against the wall amid rising costs of inputs, climate change-induced risks and faulty market mechanisms

Why Budget 2021-2022 should increase allocations for child health and nutrition

Apart from allocation of funds, their release, approval and reporting also need to be streamlined

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

India’s deepening water crisis: How villages had water before govt took over

Villagers captured rainwater wherever it fell. A hectare of desert land in Barmer, for example, can capture 1 million litres with a rainfall …

Drones help farmers in the Philippines tackle climate disasters

About 25 FAO and government technical experts will be deployed across the archipelago to support the mission

Plunging reservoir levels across India a worrying sign

The water level in 91 major reservoirs across the country as on April 13 stood at just 35.839 billion cubic metres as against 253.388 

'Investment in renewable energy growing by leaps and bounds'

Report shows investment in renewable energy has increased by five per cent to touch US $ 285.9 billion in 2015

Drought-ravaged Ethiopia

El Niño has caused massive crop failure, reduced livestock and pushed millions of people in Ethiopia into food insecurity