Are enough kits for coronavirus sampling available with NIV?

Global tally of cases crosses 6,000-mark, 132 dead

Women farmers demand recognition from govt at 2-day meet

Governments in India define farmers as those who own land, which is usually not the case with women

Cess excess: How India’s states remain deprived of what revenue Centre collects

Collection of cesses, surcharges strong tool for central govt to generate revenue, but at cost of states’ share

Antibiotic resistance: Effect of climatic spike

A warming planet will induce the development of antibiotic resistance

Scientists find a new way to fight TB

They discover a new DNA sequence that binds to the enzyme that helps the TB pathogen thrive 

Poultry culling in Bhubaneswar amid bird flu fears

Samples of chicken that died at Odisha Agricultural University tested H5N1 positive on January 27

NCCS scientists find new microbial species in Sambhar lake

Archaea among most primitive life forms, one of 3 main domains of life

TIFR Swarnajayanti fellow to study plasticity for better design of materials

Plasticity enables a solid to undergo permanent deformation without rupture under the action of external forces

How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?

How bad is it? Why does it spread so fast? A biosecurity expert answers common queries on coronavirus

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 28, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Natural disasters cost $232 bln in 2019

At a loss of $2.98 tln, 2009-2019 was the costliest decade

African cheetahs can be brought into India, rules Supreme Court

Co-existence of cheetahs and Asiatic lions in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno-Palpur and unavailability of Asiatic Cheetahs had hampered the project

How hot is hot: Advanced models forecast up to 5.6°C global warming

Climate models earlier didn't account for heat trapped by clouds

Antibiotic resistance: A new dose

How the world is gearing up to fight antibiotic resistance

Coronavirus: Expert fears global epidemic

Human-to-human transfer can lead to local epidemics, independent of Wuhan: Hong Kong expert

IISER Mohali scientist plans to fuse theories to understand symmetries of geometric objects

This recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship wants to understand symmetries of geometric, algebric objects

Budget 2020-21: Local level adaptation may be focus vis-à-vis climate change

Funds might be allocated to Panchayati Raj ministry, IMD, other institutions to minimise impact of extreme weather

Antibiotic resistance: When a saviour turns a killer

What if a saviour turns into a killer? After 80 years of use, overuse and abuse of antibiotics—termed magic bullets—microbes have become resistant to them. Antibiotic resistant diseases are undoing the great strides in modern treatment. Vibha Varshney exposes a growing public health crisis

How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn’t in brain size, but blood flow

Skulls hold clues to intelligence, says this physiology professor

Overshadowed: Will wind power lose out to solar energy in India

India’s promising wind energy sector is struggling as the government gives more attention to solar power

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (January 20 – 26, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology