Interviews

‘Reefs as we have known them will not survive anywhere’
Climate Change

‘Reefs as we have known them will not survive anywhere’

Himanshu Nitnaware
3 min read
David Obura, chair of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), warns of the alarming consequences of the ongoing mass coral bleaching event
Gloria Magombo, Zimbabwe’s Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development during the Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa forum held in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from October 22-23, 2025.
Energy

‘Renewable energy presents an opportunity to Africa to limit the issues of climate change’

Mekonnen Teshome
5 min read
DTE speaks to Gloria Magombo, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development (MoEPD) for Zimbabwe, over Africa’s energy future
Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen
Water

Global South cities have a crucial opportunity to learn from costly mistakes elsewhere on land subsidence: Leonard Ohenhen

Sushmita Sengupta
8 min read
Down To Earth speaks to US academic on land subsidence in the US and the lessons it can offer to developing countries
By tomorrow afternoon or evening, Delhi’s air quality will likely hover between ‘Poor’ and ‘Very Poor’: Gufran Beig
‘Depopulation would mean fewer people contributing to advancement of knowledge’
The amendment of the RTI Act to bring it in conformity with the DPDP Act was unnecessary: Wajahat Habibullah
Barren Island volcano’s activity is purely due to magmatic processes: Hetu Sheth
OIL lines up Rs 2,000 crore SAF plant and bets on bamboo ethanol to fuel its green transition 
‘Multiple displacement was beyond imagination, yet it became Singrauli’s reality’
Gyan Prakash Upadhyaya
Himalayan springs are cultural and ecological lifelines. But scientific studies on them remain fragmented: Vinod Kothari
‘A separate Local Government Service Commission can be set up to recruit panchayat employees’
Immanuel Louis (L) and Suyash Bafna
Swapnamita C Vaideswaran
I believe Belem will be the first COP of implementation. But we also want it to be a COP of adaptation and of turnaround: André Aranha Corrêa do Lago
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