Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from the week just gone by
Here are Down To Earth’s top 10 green stories on the week that was:
Socio-political factors are threatening already fragile lion populations in Africa, according to a new study.
The global usage of antimicrobials in animals has dropped by 13 per cent in three years from 2017 to 2019, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said in its seventh report on antibiotic use released recently.
The Narmada and other rivers are in full spate as severe rains pounded portions of Gujarat on September 17, 2023. The rivers inundated several low-lying areas and cut off many villages in the central and southern regions of the state.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, in a press release on September 16, 2023, announced the state has sued five major oil and gas companies for over five decades of deception, cover-up and damage that have allegedly cost California taxpayers billions of dollars in health and environmental impacts.
The Nipah virus that has yet again gripped Kerala may have become deadlier due to climate stress.
While some regions around the world, such as eastern China, have reported lower pollution levels, decadal data analysis has suggested that newer geographies are now experiencing high levels of fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) emissions.
Human actions are compounding the severity of the ongoing sixth mass extinction, according to a new study. The current rate at which entire genus of vertebrates, or animals with spinal cords, are going extinct is 35 times greater than the last million years.
About 76 million deaths could be averted by 2050 if coverage against high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is scaled up globally, World Health Organization (WHO) said in its first-ever report on the devastating impact of the health condition.
A new elephant corridor report released by the central government showed a 40 per cent increase in elephant corridors across 15 elephant range states in India.
The devastating floods in Libya on September 10 were made 50 times more likely and 50 per cent more intense by human-induced global warming, according to a new study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) published on September 19, 2023.
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