Nearly 44% of respondents from India reported challenges in meeting their daily expenses during COVID-19 lockdowns; situation grim across South Asia
COVID-19 vaccine poverty is the new GDP
Is the Delta variant more dangerous?
The Delta variant is 50-60 per cent more transmissible than the Alpha variant which was 50-60 per cent more transmissable than the original …
Countries relying on Chinese COVID-19 vaccines see surge in cases: Report
Chile, Bahrain, Mongolia and the Sychelles relied on Chinese vaccines to inoculate their populations; all have registered a spike in COVID-19 …
International Biodiversity Day: It is about our relationship with nature
WATCH: Sunita Narain spells out why it is all about our choices as the world celebrates another International Biodiversity Day in the shadow of …
COVID-19 2nd wave: PM Modi, here are 5 things you should do right away
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
Declaration at the 34th session of FAO’s Committee on Fisheries emphasised on undoing damage caused by COVID-19 pandemic
Bharat Stage VI: India leapfrogs today and it is no Fool’s day
Despite the pall of gloom around COVID-19, there is reason to cheer that India has become the only country to leapfrog directly to Bharat Stage …
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-19: Where India stands 6 months since Modi called for lockdown
As the country marks six months since the COVID-19 lockdown was imposed, its metropolitan cities have resumed public transport and offices, …
Book Digest: Stories of women in leadership, trends empowering them and more
From accounts of the Spanish Flu to COVID-19, DTE tracks contemporary books on development from leading authors
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&…
Union Budget 2021-22: Time to step up public investment in nutrition
Nutrition interventions, with an already faltering coverage, hit a blockade due to COVID-19 disruptions; the Union Budget is a critical …
Some legislatures have held governments to account during COVID-19. But not all
In the time of COVID-19, it will be tempting to switch money out of democracy and governance activities and into health budgets. But stronger …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …