Within two centuries, we’ve taken climate trends back to 50 million years ago

Recent study predicts that with no significant reduction in the emissions by 2150, the climate could become like the one during the Eocene era, …

19 years of reportage on nuclear energy, quakes & tsunami

The first nuclear story Down To Earth (DTE) reported was on Japan. Sixteen years ago, DTE carried a story on 14 tonnes of UK's nuclear waste that …

With 274 tiger deaths in four years, India records highest toll between two censuses

Almost half of tiger deaths in the last three years were reported outside tiger reserves

Tribal families that fled Baster during Salwa Judum years return

24 families return to their roots after spending 13 years in Andhra as agricultural labourers

The fall of the Aztecs: What lessons does it offer 500 years down the line

Down To Earth talks to historian Camilla Townsend about what the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs means, especially to indigenous people in Mexico …

Flowering plant undoes 100 million years of evolution, shows signs of self-pollination

Parisian pansies are smaller, produce less nectar than 20-30 years ago; environmental changes can to further decline in pollinators, warn scientists

35 years of Bhopal Gas Tragedy: I waited for 20 years, but nobody studied autopsy samples

D K Satpathy, former head of the Medico-legal Institute of Madhya Pradesh, had preserved hundreds of autopsy samples of gas victims, but none of …

Years of agony

After 150 years

Sethusamudram project given a go-ahead, disregarding all apprehensions

How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as the Sun’s surface for billions of years?

Even now, moving plates keep changing the surface of the Earth, constantly making new lands and new oceans over millions and billions of years

Vindicated after 3 years

Journal>> Libel ÔÇó the UK/Egypt

Endosulfan victims through the years

One hundred years of denial

Seven years respite for LDCs

Worst in 50 years

Highest in 650,000 years

12 billion years...

...is the age of the universe. And calculations based on data from the Hubble space telescope have established the elusive Hubble constant

Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …

Damodar - Ten years after

How has the river that flows through one of the most industrialised regions in India fared since it was first written about in 1993? Down to …

KERALA: 7 years on

A programme in crisis. RICHARD MAHAPATRA and E VIJAYALAKSHMI find out the many ways decentralised planning is faltering

30 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: a continuing disaster

An appraisal by Sunita Narain and Chandra Bhushan, exclusively extracted from the recently released book, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, After 30 Years

What 190 years of glacial lake outburst flood data tells us about the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Over 70% of GLOF outbreaks since 1833 have happened in last 50 years

Milky Way’s supermassive black hole exploded 3.5 million years ago: Study

The blast took place 63 million years after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs; and when our earliest ancestors — the Australopithecines &…

14 Years Later..

...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the …

A third of deaths due to extreme events occurred in Africa over 50 years: WMO

Africa accounted for only one per cent of global economic losses due to weather, climate and water extremes in 50 years