How Nanak used nature in his verses to drive home his point

Down To Earth speaks to musician and singer Rabbi Shergill about the poetry of Sikhism’s founder and its many allusions to facets of contemporary environment 

'Defaulting Ganga dams in Uttarakhand to be shut for a month'

A state govt undertaking and 2 private dams don't want to follow water discharge norms

‘Signing RCEP will mean no duties on solar products’

Amit Gupta, director of legal and corporate affairs, Vikram Solar, talks to Down To Earth about the solar industry’s perspective on India joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

'Cockroach milk is rich in proteins, fat and sugar'

Down To Earth speaks to Sanchari Banerjee, an author of a study on a unique species of cockroach's milk, which is the new superfood

Poor no longer moving to higher income bracket: Pronab Sen

Pronab Sen, former chief statistician of India and current programme director of the International Growth Centre’s India Programme, speaks to Kundan Pandey about how recent government policies have crippled the income of the poor and slowed the economy

The East India Company was not a hypocrite like the British Raj: William Dalrymple

The historian speaks to Down To Earth about his latest work, The Anarchy

Racing towards zero emissions

Anumita Roychowdhury, CSE’s executive director-research and advocacy, talks cars, mobility, emissions and much more with Lucas di Grassi, Formula E racing star. The Brazilian motor racing icon is the winner of the 2019 FIA Formula E Berlin e-Prix and a UN Ambassador for Environment

Corruption raises cost of healthcare by 25%: Samiran Nundy

Leading gastroenterologist Samiran Nundyco-editor of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India, spoke to Down To Earth about the corruption in the medical proffession. The book is an anthology of 41 investigative essays by doctors, public health academics, researchers, activists, …

Public good approach to weather data not suitable for commercial purposes: WMO director

Dimitar Ivanov, director at Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization, speaks to Down to Earth on the public vs private debate in meteorology

‘The Earth is revealing the carbon cycle to modern science’

Balz S Kamber speaks to Down To Earth about the effect of anthropogenic emissions on the global carbon cycle

‘Internationally, core weather forecasting is always done by national weather services’

Down To Earth speaks to Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), about the weather forecasting scenario in India

'The Satnami rebellion was a rare anti-caste movement in South Asian history'

Author Amita Kanekar speaks to Down To Earth about her latest book 'Fear of Lions'

Swachh Bharat Mission: ‘Inducing behavioural change was a task’

Parameswaran Iyer, secretary, Department of Drinking water and Sanitation, spoke to Down To Earth on how intensive information-education-communication efforts by the Centre and states made India ODF

'Climate change reversal unlikely; mantra is to adapt'

Down To Earth speaks to Anjal Prakash, associate professor, Regional Water Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies, on the IPCC Report's latest report on the oceans and cryosphere

‘The Amazon recycles water’

Down To Earth speaks to environmental scientist Deborah Lawrence on the Amazon blazes

We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism: Naomi Klein

The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope  

Monsoon will withdraw between Oct 14 and 24, predicts scientist

Physicist Elena Surovyatkina, who recently came up with a new weather forecasting model, speaks to Down To Earth about the Indian monsoon and more

‘We expect to find more interstellar comets in the future’

Nasa scientist Davide Farnocchia, who was one of the first to make observations about the new interstellar comet, speaks to Down To Earth

‘Rejuvenation treatment can delay onset of heart diseases, cancer’

Steve Horvath, a geneticist who was able to reverse nine people’s biological clock recently, spoke to Down To Earth about the study

Pacific heatwave: ‘More research needed to find what causes this’

Down To Earth speaks to marine heatwave experts Nicholas Bond about the high sea surface temperature anomaly in the Pacific and its significance