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A cattle crisis

The food-and-mouth disease spreads panic across the world and raises several questions about livestock culling

Lumpy skin disease outbreak: Indigenous vaccine still awaits emergency-use clearance

Launched a month ago; Concerns over efficacy, production causing delay 

Global madness

The whole world is at risk of the mad cow disease, says WHO

Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides

As part of an expanding non-lethal toolkit, this simple, low-cost approach could reduce the costs of coexistence for some farmers

Burp control: How can methane released in livestock belches be reduced? Scientists are trying various options

Scientists are experimenting with seaweed as well as concoctions having several other ingredients to make the specialised digestive system of …

The milk that ate the grass

India may be the largest producer of milk in the world, but at an incredible cost. In achieving this distinction, the country's vast cattle …

‘Ethnoveterinary medicines can be used as preventives and curatives’

Down To Earth spoke to MNB Nair from the Center for Ethno-Veterinary Science and Practice, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences …

Vanishing breeds

While people worry about patenting of upmarket plant products like neem because of transnational interest, India's unique biodiversity of …

Cool bug

Dung beetles keep methane from cattle in check

A scapegoat?

The government views goats as the greatest enemy of the environment

Simply Put: The cow and the cheetah

Simply put: Livestock fart and greenhouse gas emissions

Ancient DNA is revealing the origins of livestock herding in Africa

Pastoralism’s roots could hold clues to help solve modern challenges

500,000 cattle dead in Australia floods

Australia’s beef industry is expected to be severely hit and could take several decades to recover

Centre to roll back controversial ban on trade of cattle for slaughter

The government’s May 23 notification on changes made to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Market) Rules, 2017, …

Stop cow vigilantism; take urgent steps to end violence: Supreme Court tells Centre

The apex court also asked chief secretaries of each state to consult DGPs to keep highways safe from cow vigilante groups

Cattle can no longer be traded for the purposes of slaughter: Centre

Sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets banned; now cattle can only be sold for ‘agricultural purposes’  

What exactly are cattle fed?

In Punjab, too much limestone powder and urea: adulteration hardly a bother for feed-makers

Methane from Indian cattle overestimated

The phoenix act

Indian vulture populations stabilise after six years of ban on diclofenac; scientists still wary

Toda traditions in peril

Can this tribal community in the Nilgiris survive the concrete trappings of civilisation? Tarun Chhabra on the eco-friendly Todas

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 12, 2023)

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

Treated like cattle

A drawn out court case raises questions about India's animal quarantine managers