Spiralling Temperature: Seasonal Warming Trends in India

In the winter of 2016-17, the mean temperature was 2.95°C higher than the 1901-1930 baseline – the ...

Over 100 years of India's urban revolution

Between 2014 and 2050, India is projected to add 404 million urban dwellers and the number of ...

Oil at Sea

Displacement burden on India due to extreme weather events

Natural disasters, primarily-extreme weather events, triggered the displacement of nearly 17.2 million worldwide in 2018. At 2.678 ...

Metro madness

Extreme Is The New Normal

The world has seen 16 record-breaking hottest years since 2000. In fact, global surface temperatures are already ...

Deadly mosquito bites

As Delhi and other parts of the country battle the surge in dengue cases, here is a ...

Water stressed world

ABOUT 750 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER About one-fifth ...

Diabetes: A silent killer

Globally, the number of diabetes cases has climbed 4.4 per cent over the past two years and ...

Why Vedanta Stays in news

El Nino-induced drought leaves Africa dry and hungry

El Nino-induced drought in Africa has destroyed crops, challenged food security and caused cattle deaths. Ahead of ...

90 years of desertification

More than 75 per cent of Earth's land area is already degraded and some 418 million hectares, ...

Climate Talkies

In 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the agreement to combat climate change was whittled down and targets were ...

International migration flows: tracking the trends

In 2015, the world saw the highest levels of forced displacement recorded since World War II. There ...

Cogeneration

Icons of freedom

Animal fat, salt, minor forest produce, indigo and khadi are icons evoked by reference to the freedom ...

The living dead

A Down To Earth special report on how the three-decade old industrial disaster is still an unfolding ...

Five States: Too many concerns, too few commitments

The 2017 Assembly elections across five states—Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur-have brought to the surface ...

Infants without safeguards

If all the countries are to reach at least 90 per cent coverage for routine life-saving vaccinations, ...

Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell

Global warming is taking its toll on the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh. Mountains that were completely decked ...