Down To Earth catches up with Pawan Kr Chandana, co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace, whose Vikram-S became the first privately made rocket to launch in the country
‘Ethnoveterinary medicines can be used as preventives and curatives’
‘Ethnoveterinary medicine will be a game changer for dairy in India’
‘Ethnoveterinary medicine is a simple, cost-effective, farmer-friendly tool’
Emissions trading: ‘Permanence of carbon credits, human rights protection needs focus at COP27’
Jonathan Crook, policy officer at Carbon Market Watch, on carbon market negotiations in the first week of COP27
Triple tremors in Delhi: ‘We should always be prepared for a big earthquake’
Poorly constructed houses in crammed colonies can present tough challenge
COP27: ‘Translation between change in weather and damages is not linear’
Down To Earth talks to Friederike Otto, climate scientist at Imperial College London about the science of weather attribution
COP27: We don’t need new pacts, implement current ones, says climate scientist Saleemul Huq
Part 2: The climate scientist talks about need for region and ecosystem-wise targets for adaptation
Egypt’s support to developing countries gives hope for COP27: Climate scientist Saleemul Huq
Part 1: The climate scientist talks about critical climate issues that can play a major role at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit
Run-up to COP27: ‘John Kerry is scared of the floodgates of litigations on accepting loss and damage’
Down To Earth speaks to Farhana Yamin, one of the key architects of the Paris deal, on why rich countries are attempting to linger negotiations on loss and damage
Run-up to COP27: LDCs want clear process to bridge $100 billion fund gap, loss & damage finance structure
Manjeet Dhakal, advisor to the LDC chair, talks about challenges faced by disadvantaged countries & their agenda for CoP27
Large chunks of slender loris habitat already lost, need protected areas for endangered primate: Expert
Down To Earth spoke to Honnavalli N Kumara about the importance of conservation of the species and the existing threats to its population
Bihar man-eater shot: ‘We need to put down problem animals for wildlife conservation’
Shafath Ali Khan, who was engaged by the Maharashtra government in the operation to eliminate Avni in 2018, released a book this year to narrate his version of events
‘Changing climatic conditions induce vegetation changes, which shapes human evolution’
DTE speaks with professor Rajeev Patnaik to understand the relationship of evolution with climate
World Rivers Day: Adopt bottom-up approach, says student who cleaned Vadodara stream
Down To Earth talks to Sneha Shahi about the issues facing Indian rivers and her own experience of working with two of them
‘Humans won’t go extinct; but they are at a crucial point’
Down to Earth spoke with Nathan H Lents, professor of biology at John Jay College, the City University of New York about the past, present and future of humanity
‘Europe will witness more extreme megadroughts in the years ahead’
Down To Earth speaks to climate historian Christian Pfister from the University of Berne about Europe’s tryst with drought this year, in the past and the future
International Vulture Awareness Day: India’s numbers increasing, albeit slowly
Introduction and release are a process which takes time; it must be done systematically, scientist Vibhu Prakash told DTE
Look back in hope: What America’s Hopi people can teach us about living sustainably
Down To Earth talks to author Daniel Pinchbeck about what the Hopi Native Americans of Arizona can teach the modern world which is warming incredibly fast
‘A multi-sectoral approach to adaptation finance would help strengthen allied sectors’
Sub-regions of both south and south-west Asia will witness extremes in precipitation and droughts
US now calls water scarcity a national security issue: An expert explains how serious it can be
In many cases, disasters could be prevented with proper water management
‘Herbivorous dinosaurs were closer to birds than reptiles’
Down To Earth speaks to GVR Prasad, palaeontologist and professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Delhi, on his team’s discovery of an abnormal dinosaur egg in Madhya Pradesh
‘James Webb Space Telescope will try to look at the first stars formed 13.5 billion years ago’
Scientist Jessy Jose on how James Webb Space Telescope is superior to Hubble & aims of its investigation
‘Adenovirus is not new. Yet, we’ve never linked it with severe hepatitis’
Matthew R Vogt on link between acute flaccid myelitis & current acute paediatric hepatitis outbreak
East Africa drought: ‘Climate change is making La Niña impact severe’
Climate change is pushing countries like Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia into a famine as they face their fifth consecutive deficit rainy seasons