Man v elephant

Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Global Eco Watch: 1.2 million Indians died of snake bites in last 20 years

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Tamil Nadu and Kerala slug it out over Mullaperiyar dam

Afghanistan under Taliban: A decade’s progress eroded in a year, says UN

Cascading crises, almost 700,000 jobs vanished, finds report

Conservationists slam draft of new government report on elephants

It fails to understand the ecology of elephants, they say

Nearly 80 mln displaced globally by 2019-end, half of them children: UNHCR

Fewer displaced people have been able to return to their homes in 2019

Why do they raid crops?

Sometimes elephants raid crops even when there is a lot of food in the forests

Global Eco Watch: Drying Sea of Galilee swells after years of drought

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Mitigate man-animal conflict: tiger conservation authority

Chhattisgarh tigress could have been saved from mob death on September 24

Villagers in Odisha’s Malkangiri kill, consume meat of mugger crocodile

Odisha forest department officials detained a few villagers over the incident

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

DTE Reportage

'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Prince of the cats: India has nearly 14,000 leopards, Centre’s report reveals

MP, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have the highest number of leopards in India

Tranquilised wild elephant dies after falling off lorry; autopsy indicates cardiac arrest cause of death

Wildlife activist alleges negligence by forest department during capture operation  

Burden or boon? Wayanad residents divided on wildlife as interest groups advocate trigger-happy responses

Since January, a pervasive anti-wildlife sentiment has descended over the district and violent protests erupted against animals and conservationists

Reshaping democracy in new climate

Democracy is critical in a climate-risked world. Will we lose its essence of justice and equity to the many wars afflicting us today?

Uttarakhand, land of the Rudrapayag maneater, will see more human-leopard conflict in future, warns report

Training of forest staff, timely compensations and awareness among local communities can help alleviate the problem, says report released by …

War in Sudan enters its breadbasket, threatens to worsen hunger, malnutrition

A third of Sudanese in need of emergency food aid; country faces the greatest displacement crisis in history

‘Rogue elephant’, ‘Crocodile-infested’, ‘Tiger-haunted’: It is all in the semantics

Language has shaped or disfigured landscapes, human communities, wildlife populations and our perception of the very earth we call ‘home&…

Russia has turned the Dnipro into a major weapon of war: Paul Josephson

Down To Earth speaks to specialist in Soviet and Russian history about the impact of two years of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Dnipro river

Why is a wisent herd in Ukraine on the brink of extinction? Can matchmaking save them?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has decimated the population of male wisent in the Zalissia National Nature Park; translocating two …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 13, 2024)

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

UN Secretary-General urges urgent action to address deadly nexus of climate, hunger and conflict

Guterres warned of a looming resurgence of food inflation globally as droughts disrupt critical supply routes like the Panama Canal