‘Leave the Sentinelese alone’

50 years after he first visited North Sentinel Island in the Andaman archipelago, veteran anthropologist, T N Pandit talks to Down To Earth about …

READ MORE 06 Aug 2018

"Swachh Bharat Mission echoes sterilisation campaign of 70s"

A new book exposes the lacunae in the way India manages its waste and recommends changes in practices and attitudes toward waste. Robin Jeffrey …

READ MORE 03 Aug 2018

‘In a world in which wildlife is so threatened, the Indus dolphin is a rare good news story’

Gill Braulik, who has been studying Indus River dolphins in Pakistan for over 15 years, speaks to Down To Earth about the future of the animal in …

READ MORE 27 Jul 2018

'Don't misunderstand the leopard'

Few wildlife enthusiasts have tracked leopards more closely or known them more intimately than jonathan and Angela Scott, who have made the …

READ MORE 17 Jul 2018

'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'

Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Trees tells S S Jeevan about the phylogeny, ecological services, and the sociological …

READ MORE 16 Jul 2018

‘We inform locals about the wildlife in their backyard’

Sanjay Gubbi, who recently set up a nature information centre in Karnataka, says this it’s the first such centre to disseminate information …

READ MORE 16 Jul 2018

'The Sarus appears to be altering its nesting behaviour due to climate change'

K S Gopi Sundar, a well-known expert on cranes, recently conducted a study on how climate change and cropping patterns affect the nesting cycles …

READ MORE 16 Jul 2018

‘Gamers with pathological patterns can now be diagnosed and treated’

Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, associate professor of psychiatry at AIIMS, says WHO’s move to call gaming disorder a mental health condition a …

READ MORE 11 Jul 2018

‘Centre using finance commission to promote its flagship programmes’

Centre is urging Finance Commission to finalise tax-devolution formula keeping in mind the national development programme

READ MORE 15 Jun 2018

'Africa should not be a dumping ground for cheap technologies'

Africa has only 1,152 weather stations; most of which are in dilapidated condition. Adequate infrastructure and quality data is needed to …

READ MORE 30 May 2018

‘If periods are bad omen, then semen discharge should be too’

A tête-à-tête with Dr Meenakshi Bharath, a gynaecologist for the last 35 years and a green campaigner

READ MORE 26 May 2018

'Thunderstorm is the most challenging segment of weather prediction'

K J Ramesh explains how this season’s thunderstorms is due to a peculiar condition wherein heating in north and northwestern India has …

READ MORE 18 May 2018

‘Affirmative action policies are under threat’

Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar on restlessness among dalit youth

READ MORE 14 May 2018

‘Totalitarian movements are self-destructive’

The reason socialist awareness is not possible in the 21st century is that the middle class in India in the 60s was primarily dominated by the …

READ MORE 09 May 2018

‘Equality is no longer in our vision of society’

Historian Romila Thapar speaks to Rajat Ghai

READ MORE 03 May 2018

‘The price of millets is 3 times higher than that of regular rice’

J Suresh is an Engineering graduate, and had been working for six years as a techie before he left his job to start a millet restaurant. After …

READ MORE 02 May 2018

Larger spleen helps Indonesia’s Bajau people demonstrate extraordinary diving skills

They are the first humans to have genetically adapted to have larger spleens which help them dive deeper and for longer periods

READ MORE 01 May 2018

‘World’s first e-waste microfactory will create a ripple effect on jobs, especially for local communities’

Prof Veena Sahajwalla, the Indian-origin scientist who launched the world’s first microfactory for e-waste, talks to Down To Earth about …

READ MORE 23 Apr 2018

'Farmer companies have triggered changes globally'

Roberto Logo, a specialist on farmer organisations and markets with a UN agency, on the development of corporate partnerships with Farmer …

READ MORE 05 Apr 2018

If sanitation is treated as a community problem, we can make something happen for very little money

Just like a better iPhone is not the solution to poor telecom connectivity, sanitation cannot be solved by a smart, well-designed product, sold …

READ MORE 26 Mar 2018

'36% cities to face water crisis by 2050'

Robert Mcdonald, scientist at the US-based environmental organisation The Nature Conservancy, talks to Sushmita Sengupta on water crisis in …

READ MORE 22 Mar 2018

'Change perception about wastewater'

Blanca Jimnez-Cisneros, director of the division of water sciences and secretary of International Hydrological Programme, Unesco, talks to …

READ MORE 21 Mar 2018

"Cape Town's consciousness about water consumption has helped reduce demand"

Xanthea Limberg, mayoral committee member for informal settlements, water and waste services & energy speaks on water restriction rules …

READ MORE 19 Mar 2018

“Environmental amnesia is constricting our intellect”

Though we are living in a highly degraded environment, we have failed to spot behavioural fallouts. Increasingly, children living in polluted …

READ MORE 19 Feb 2018

"Zero-waste life isn't wishful thinking"

Hannah Sartin rarely dumps a plastic wrapper or paper ball as trash. At 32, she owns Munich's first zero-waste shop and has published a book that …

READ MORE 16 Jan 2018