Empower communities to restore forests: Study

Crucial forest-restoration areas in low-income countries — home to 12 per cent of their total population — can have an impact on carbon sequestration projects and local livelihoods

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 25, 2020)

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

India in talks with Russia on ‘unverified’ COVID-19 vaccine

Indian serostudies do not talk about neutralising antibodies, says ICMR DG  

GDP loss due to COVID-19 will lead to higher mortality

As economies take a tumble in states, expect a toll bigger than the pandemic itself

Higher incidences of water-borne diseases in fishermen drinking from Ganga: Survey

Consumption of and exposure to contaminated water has also led to predominance of skin diseases among fishing community

India recycles only 1% of its construction and demolition waste: CSE

The rest remains strewn across, in landfills, or in plain sight everywhere, leading to air and water pollution

Extreme weather: Understanding birds’ response can help conservation efforts

All birds respond differently to different extreme weather events; long- and short-distance migration bird species are impacted differently by climate change

Biochar application can help Ghana’s smallholder farmers fight back climate change: Study

New research shows biochar application is more effective in promoting cowpea growth and yield in Ghana

Are the indigenous people of Andaman and Nicobar contracting COVID-19

Jarawas also very vulnerable; experts say administrative failure to blame for tribals getting infected

IIT Mandi researchers use mathematical modelling to sharpen images

Active imagign techniques, like flash modes, often introduce noise in photographs

Coronavirus update: Stage 2 human clinical trials for Oxford vaccine begin

India reported 60,975 new cases of COVID-19 and 848 deaths in the last 24 hours

COVID-19: Hong Kong University ‘confirms’ first case of reinfection, WHO advises caution

Whether reinfection cases existed at a population level or the Hong Kong case was an exception had to be studied, WHO said

Tropical storms Marco, Laura head for the Gulf of Mexico, spark Fujiwhara effect scare

Simultaneous formation of two storms in western Atlantic Ocean creates Fujiwhara effect scare, that happens when 2 hurricanes combine to form a mega hurricane

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 24, 2020)

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

EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots

At least 24 billion Euros a year goes to support incomes in the richest farming regions of the EU with the fewest farm jobs 

Coronavirus update: India crosses 3 mln COVID-19 cases

The United States’ Food and Drug Administration announces the emergency approval of convalescent blood plasma to treat COVID-19

Earth’s inner core is older than previously determined, find researchers

Researchers revise age of Earth’s solid inner core from 565 mln years to 1-1.3 bln years   

Global Eco Watch: Pregnant Gaur killed in Kerala; 6 held

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

Disaster strikes Bengal’s Mousuni island third time in 10 months

Recent breach in embankments follow the devastatations caused by cyclones Amphan, Bulbul

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (August 17-21, 2020)

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

Has Dharavi Model made us lose sight of its real problems

COVID-19 pandemic will pass one day. But what about hunger, unemployment, loss of education and stigma