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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/major-loss-to-indian-climate-science-scientific-community-civil-society-mourn-demise-of-krishna-achutarao</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Krishna AchutaRao.]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/natural-disasters/two-years-two-floods-a-vulnerable-himalayan-corridor-faces-growing-risk</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A conceptual diagram, showing two different cryospheric triggers: supraglacial lake drainage in 2025 and ice-rock avalanche and river blockage in 2026, which is converging on the same vulnerable Lhende–Bhotekoshi corridor.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Langtang National Park.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-09-05T05:33:21.383Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/who-will-grow-indias-food-in-the-future</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A senior Pahari woman wearing a traditional headscarf (dhatu) harvests fresh green leafy vegetables (saag) growing between newly planted young apple trees on a terraced mountain farm in Himachal Pradesh.]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-09-05T05:32:34.397Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/urbanisation/the-geography-of-forgetting-can-guwahati-survive-its-own-growth</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The Brahmaputra at dusk, with Umananda, the world’s smallest inhabited river island, in the distance.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ The statue of Bir Lachit Borphukan stands in the Brahmaputra, commemorating the Ahom general’s leadership at the Battle of Saraighat. ]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-09-05T05:32:18.028Z</lastmod>
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<loc>https://www.downtoearth.org.in/food/fake-expiry-dates-on-packaged-food-and-front-of-pack-labelling</loc>
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<lastmod>2026-09-05T05:32:01.898Z</lastmod>
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