IUCN adds 361 birds to Red List

87 of these face extinction threat

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Women’s Day 2024: Strength of a collective in a not-so-silent revolution

Kishori dals or girls’ collective that began in Odisha village is helping ensure girls’ rights

‘Tighter regulations needed on nutrient effluents’

Here’s N Raghuram, chairman of International Nitrogen Initiative, speaking with Down To Earth about the viability of United Kingdom’s …

If we’re smart about water, we can stop our cities sinking

As more cities sink, rethinking how we use groundwater can ease pressure on precious aquifers

WHO ends COVID-19 global health emergency, bringing one of human history’s most painful periods to a close

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautions world against letting its guard down

International law doesn’t protect people fleeing environmental disaster — here’s how it could

A firm understanding of what works where climate migrants are forced to settle will be invaluable.

Need emergency action to avert measles and polio epidemics, warn UN bodies

$655 million would be needed to address the immunity gaps in non-Gavi eligible countries and target age groups

Nigeria’s WTO candidate gets Africa’s backing

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a candidate contesting for director-general at the World Trade Organization, has worked for 25 years at the World Bank &…

Rejoinder: ‘One CGIAR won’t alter international germplasm collections’

The One CGIAR transition process was born of a recognition that the evolving, interconnected global challenges facing our food systems require a …

Energy consumption, related emissions expected to increase through 2050: IEA

Net Zero is within reach as renewables, electric vehicles, efficiency and other technologies progress. Innovation and international collaboration …

Odisha fishers seek Rs 10,000 a month to make up for 7-month fishing ban

State ban on fishing by motorised vessels, trawlers to preserve Olive Ridley turtles starts today, November 1    

IEA pitches for favourable policy interventions to push lagging nuclear sector

Report, released at the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial conference, backs investments in nuclear power 

High-tech on the ground: Blockchain technology to boost small farm incomes

Three-way partnership between ICRISAT, Eleven01 and KHETHINEXT to create a transparent marketplace

After WASH report, burden of eradicating open defecation shifts to Africa

Around 196 million of the 494 million people practising open defecation in the world are from sub-Saharan Africa

15 million in Asia’s cities can be affected by sea-level rise by 2030: Greenpeace

$724 billion in Gross Domestic Product could be impacted due to extreme sea-level rise and coastal flooding by 2030

A decade on, only 15% of Fukushima core area decontaminated: Greenpeace

The Japanese government’s own figures reveal this, the organisation says in a report to mark 10 years of the disaster

Fishing and coral reef degradation threaten parrotfish in Andaman

New study says presence of a protected area, live coral and algal cover, significantly influences distribution and abundance of the specie

Small businesses provide most jobs in under developed, developing nations: ILO

Policy makers need to focus on informal sector and small economic units to address fundamental challenges of employment creation and improvement …

Will IUCN ban on domestic ivory trade spark a global battle on conservation?

Two blocs of countries seem headed for a confrontation over the issue of ban on ivory trade

Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society, not just a virus

To tackle Zika and other viral outbreaks, we need to focus not only on the pathology of the disease, but also on the global political …

Conference on ‘slow food’ kicks off in Meghalaya

Speakers insist on the importance of reflecting on evolving food and agro ecological issues of indigenous people

Processed food now a cause for higher incidence of non- communicable diseases

Increased consumption of food outside home, especially in middle-income countries, is another cause of worry, highlights a study

Hidden hunger: a silent epidemic

The Global Hunger Index report recommends returning to traditional diets comprising locally available, biodiverse food to overcome growing under-…

Poor countries need $1.4 trillion annually for universal social protection: ILO

Over half of GDP needed for social protection in low-income nations; essential health care tops funding needs