Surveillance and testing, field hospitals, health corps, a human touch and awareness drives can help stem the current wave of COVID-19 in India
FAO calls for sustainable aquaculture, end to illegal fishing
'Female health workers played a critical role in making Africa wild polio-free'
COVID-19: IMA shoots angry letter on govt statement about health worker deaths
Breastfeeding in times of COVID-19: Will newborns miss out on vital nutrition
Reduction in prevalence of breastfeeding could occur due to limitations in provision and use of health services amid COVID-19 pandemic &…
Meet the pandemic that has survived a decade
India, like most nations, is fighting two pandemics: COVID-19, the casualty numbers of which are ever rising, and swine flu, which never left the …
Cyclones, locust attacks: Climate disasters, COVID-19 pose dual challenge in South Asia
From flash floods in Pakistan to cyclone in Bay of Bengal, climate-related disasters have compounded COVID-19 crisis in South Asia
India and its 2022 renewable energy targets in 6 charts
The country’s growth in the clean energy sector in the last 10 years has been remarkable. There are, however, many stumbling blocks, …
SDGs as good as gone unless the world takes URGENT action
All 17 SDGs, set at the UN General Assembly in 2015, are in jeopardy due to the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in the …
How 2021 offered us a ‘wall of opportunity’ to improve Tamil Nadu’s environmental scene
The Chief Wildlife Warden of Tamil Nadu enumerates what he and his team did to improve environmental affairs in the state in the midst …
COVID origins debate: What to make of new findings linking the virus to raccoon dogs
The latest data supports the link of COVID-19 origins to Wuhan’s animal trade, it is unlikely to provide irrefutable evidence
Explained: Key takeaways from IPCC Synthesis Report on climate change
The SYR is presented in the wake of major global upheaval brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the …
COVID-19: Can antigen test be a game-changer?
Unlike commonly available COVID-19 tests that use polymerase chain reaction, antigen diagnostics work by quickly detecting fragments of virus in …
‘Chinese food is so entrenched in our lives; COVID-19 can’t change that’
Down To Earth talks to Miranda Brown, historian of premodern Chinese food and medicine and University of Michigan professor, about Chinese …
COVID-19: Virus and vaccine lessons from 2021 for better 2022
Inoculation, restrictions, infrastructure and memory are effective tools in mitigating COVID-19 infection and easing restrictions on …
Nearly 51 million internally displaced in 33 countries in first half of 2021: UN
The lethal mix of conflict, COVID-19, poverty, food insecurity and climate emergency has compounded humanitarian plight of the displaced, flags …
Former UK PM Gordon Brown now WHO ambassador for global health financing
Brown had warned that 100 million COVID-19 vaccines would go waste unless global leaders shared surplus supplies with the poorest countries
Lost keys of livelihood: Locksmiths a vanishing tribe in Lucknow’s Aminabad
A shift in lifestyles, COVID-19 pandemic has changed the game for Aminabad’s locksmiths. Most say they do not want their children …
DRC’s coping mechanisms in the face of Ebola, measles and COVID-19
DRC has had a measles outbreak of more than 300,000 cases and more than 6,000 deaths since 2019; and 4,637 confirmed COVID-19 cases at 13 …
COVID-19: What about women in informal sector?
From weavers in Manipur to domestic helps in metropolitan cities, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty to women workers’ lives&…
COVID-19: India may see 1.25 million excess deaths by November 1, says IHME
Daily rate of excess deaths due to COVID-19 was greater than 4 per million in Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya and Sikkim, the report …
Our cities need big funds to fight climate risks: World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic added strain to cities’ finances in cities in developing countries; the disruption continues to make planning for …
COVID-19 and the changing face of child labour
The number of children working as child labourers came down by 100 million in last two decades; but COVID-19 pandemic has undone a lot …
COVID-19 vaccines for all: Why COVAX is not working
The initiative to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the poorest countries has not succeeded in its goal so far due to over-dependence on a few …
COVID-19: You have water to wash your hands; but that is a privilege
Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact over the country and the globe, systems that supply water are extremely crucial for rural …