As told to Parliament (July 20, 2022): 34% of India’s coastline under varying degrees of erosion for 28 years
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Deadly nursery: DTE analysis of studies in last 5 years shows how air pollution kills India’s children
Around 25 research studies and papers published between 2018 and October 2023 seen by DTE, show that poor air causes low birthweight, stunting …
Clean Ganga programme gets Rs 20,000-crore budget for five years
Initiatives to clean the river will include rehabilitation of existing sewage treatment plants
Last 12 months were the warmest in 125,000 years
Temperatures 1.3°C above the pre-industrial era since November 2022
It may take at least 25 years to double farmers’ income: study
A soon-to-be-released study reconfirms deep agrarian crisis showing stagnancy in farm income in most states
A peek into Indian monsoon over 8,000 years
A team of Indian researchers has recreated a continuous history of the Indian monsoon, providing new insights into forces governing it
Land grabbing intensity doubled in last four years, says report
Land deals primarily target areas previously used for agriculture, which increases competition for land and the potential for conflicts
We've been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years
New research suggests the "primordial soup" theory can't explain how living cells evolved to harness energy
Livestock population drops 3.3 per cent in five years
Decrease in number of goats, sheep and camels indicates livelihood crisis for the poor; number of milk-producing animals has increased
Cheruvayal Raman’s paddy project: 20 years, 54 varieties, 1 national award
This 70-year old farmer's lifelong mission is to save Kerala's traditional rice varieties
COVID-19 killed more people in 16 months than natural disasters in 20 years
No disaster has killed more than 3 million people in recent history and in such a short time period
These 10 cards show why Planet Earth is still headed for a meltdown 5 years after Paris
The recent UNEP Emissions Gap report, the WMO’s State of the Global Climate Change 2020 and other reports all point to dire consequences
Numaligarh elephants’ home restored: Deopahar notified as reserve forest after 20 years
Deopahar was the centre of a fierce battle this decade over a notorious boundary wall constructed by the Numaligarh Refinery in Assam’s …
Carbon as old as 8,000 years found in deepest blue hole
Finding to help study carbon cycling and potential mechanisms controlling it
Over 1,200 pangolins trafficked in India in 5 years: Report
Odisha recorded the highest number of trafficking incidents & pangolins seized
Around 66% children below 2 years don't get nutritious diet: UNICEF
The diets of children in this age group have not improved in the last decade
Sixth Extinction? Over 150,000 species vanished in last 500 years
Nearly half of 177 mammal species surveyed lost more than 80% of their distribution between 1900 and 2015
Two years on: India’s index COVID-19 patient describes her ordeal
On January 30, 2020, India reported its first case of COVID-19; the patient was a Thrissur resident studying medicine at Wuhan University. Here …
Union Budget 2019-20: First time in five years, MGNREGA gets Rs 1,084 crore less
Budget allocation for Ministry of Rural Development gets Rs 5,200 crore extra
Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea after 18 years; experts say it was avoidable
They put the blame on poor vaccination coverage and unsanitary living conditions
Govt's share of spending on nutrition, public health reduces in the last four years
Even the outstanding liabilities of states have been growing at double digits
Heat content in oceans doubled in 10 years, finds study
Earth’s oceans have absorbed 90 per cent of the heat from global warming
August 2021 is the sixth-warmest in 142 years: US climate agency
August 2021 is the 440th consecutive month the planet has reported above average temperature, according to the National Oceanic and …
Nasa satellite imagery finds tremendous changes in Amazon in last 40 years
The scale of losses in forests land, increase in pasture land, shift in land use policy driven by economic forces are seen nowhere else in the world
Rare bee found after 100 years, but under pressure to survive: Study
Land fragmentation, climate change and wildfires pose threat to the remaining invertebrate species