Protecting water and land from grabbers. For a new water ethic

In a world running out of accessible water, the question of control looms large. Is water a human right, a public trust and common heritage or a …

The poverty of policy

On the trail of rampaging elephants

Down To Earth reporters visit human-elephant conflict zones and discover that affected people are increasingly venting their ire on forest staff …

In A Spot

Are the new industrial siting rules a boon or a bane?

Dying for a lake

Four fisherfolks were killed in police firing in Chilka Lake when they were protesting against prawn farming in the lake on May 29

Too little to share

Kerala's paddy farmers resent water disbursal to NTPC plant

Who won it?

Mediation can resolve conflicts related to natural resources: UN

New guide for professionals draws on field experience in conflict resolution

IN SHORT

Conflict and food insecurity: Iraq only one among many

Globally, 33 countries, including 26 in Africa, are in need of external assistance due to a combination of conflict, crop failures and high …

UN to cut food supplies to African refugees

The drastic cut will affect 800,000 people in the African continent

Wildlife decline causes human trafficking, child slavery: study

Depletion of species has increased the need for labour

Hunger and poverty trigger most of the conflicts, says FAO official

Ongoing conflicts is Africa and West Asia could be seen as closest examples

Israel deliberately targeted Gaza's health facilities: Amnesty

Even prior to the July attacks, health services in Gaza had been in steady decline because of Israeli blockade; hospitals were not performing …

Conflict of interest: when Narendra Modi’s remark triggered the debate

A private Bill titled ‘The Prevention and Management of Conflict of Interest Bill, 2015’ is to be tabled in Parliament today. Will it …

Another person killed by tiger near Corbett

Forest officials term tiger attack accidental; tigress declared man-eater yet to be captured

Gaza Strip faces acute water crisis amid air strikes by Israel

Water is being used as a war of weapon in countries like Syria and Iraq

Environment is one of wars’ greatest victims

Illegal logging by US-backed warlords and wood harvesting by refugees caused more than one-third of Afghanistan’s forests to vanish between …

Iraq needs US $38.5 million aid to avert collapse of agriculture sector: FAO

Many of Iraq's water resources, including two great rivers—Tigris and Euphrates—flows through areas that are under IS militants’…

'Elephant conservation is not exactly anybody’s priority'

M D Madhusudan is an ecologist and conservationist with Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, Karnataka. An elephant expert, he is a member …

'Trapping leopards that stray into human habitat not the solution'

Report spells out the do's and don'ts of managing human-leopard conflict around Mumbai's Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Why do they raid crops?

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

Mitigate man-animal conflict: tiger conservation authority

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

Radio-collared leopard killed by speeding vehicle in Thane

Ajoba made headlines in 2009 when he travelled over 100 km from Pune to Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park

South Asia conference on nutrition in Delhi held amid controversy

Civil society organisations claim private companies like Pepsi and Coca Cola are funding agencies partnering Indian health ministry