Two forest officials suspended for deaths of elephants in train accident
Environmentalists have called out the forest department for only taking action against low-rank officials
Towards Wakanda — Chadwick Boseman’s passing and the power and limits of Afrofuturism
Black Panther draws on an artistic movement known as Afrofuturism, in which knowledge about past violence and injustice inform an imagined future …
World Malaria Day: ‘If we don’t become complacent, we can eliminate malaria like 1965’
PL Joshi, former head of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme talks to Down To Earth about how malaria vaccination, surveillance and …
Swine Flu deaths cross 1,000; will this year be a repeat of 2015?
More than 22,000 cases of swine flu have been reported in 2017, a bulk of them from Maharashtra and Gujarat
UK university academic is lending expertise to cut India’s snakebite deaths
With 50,000 deaths per year from snakebites, India has the world's highest burden
Second African cheetah dies in Kuno National Park of cardiac failure
Uday, 6, arrived in India in February 2023 from South Africa
Half of all South Africans are overweight or obese. Warning labels on unhealthy foods help change that
Globally there’s been an increase in the availability and consumption of unhealthy food
Assam’s human-elephant conflict: Legally protecting habitats, natural fencing can save the ‘gentle giants’
Elephants are part of Assam's culture & folklore but habitat loss is driving negative interactions with humans
Looking for a non-Western lens to the Black Death? Try this translation of a work written in Mamluk Egypt
‘Merits of the Plague’ was written 600 years ago by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, a medieval polymath
67 elephants died in Odisha in last nine months
Poaching, train accidents and electrocution killed more than half of these elephants, says Wildlife Society of Odisha
International Mother Language Day 2023: Adivasi children in India unable to study in their own tongues needs redressal
Tribal children do not have teachers, reading material or even a proper script for their dialects or languages
Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC’s Ebola outbreak. Here are some
The deaths in this outbreak are 10% of the total deaths recorded in West Africa in 2014, which took more than 11,000 lives
Poor air quality a major cause of premature deaths
A study conducted 11 north Indian cities says that annual premature mortality rate linked to air pollution ranges from 150-300 people per 1 lakh …
El Niño-triggered floods claim 72 lives in Peru
More floods to be expected, says the national weather service
In most countries, excess deaths due to COVID-19 greater than leading causes of death: World Bank analyst
Pandemic hit countries even with a younger population where a milder impact was earlier assumed
There’s a human hand in every tenth elephant death in Odisha
34 elephants were killed by poachers, 30 died after being hit by trains and six died in road accidents in the last 10 years
Two elephants found dead in Odisha’s Keonjhar
At least 7 elephants have died under unnatural circumstances in Odisha in the last 7 months
Climate and mortality rates in Kenya, Mali, and Malawi: what we found
If sub-Saharan African nations are to reduce mortality, they must have a better understanding of the effect of climate change on mortality rates
WHO issues guidelines to prevent child and maternal deaths
Every year, 2.6 million children are stillborn and 303,000 births result in mother’s death
43% increase in measles deaths from 2021-2022: WHO
Number of cases rose by 18% in a year; 15 more countries reported measles outbreaks in 2022
White Death: Search, rescue operations called off at Sikkim’s Nathula road
All victims had been accounted for, according to the Gangtok district collector
Birth, death registration improves across states: NFHS-5
Rate of registration of births was higher among surveyed state, UTs. The lowest was in Nagaland at 73%
73 elephants, 4 lions run over by trains in 4 years along with 63,000 other animals: CAG report
Report found that preventive measures circulated to zonal railways to prevent animal deaths had not been implemented even after 10 years
Wild spread of lumpy skin disease in Rajasthan may have been triggered by climate change
Vectors of the viral disease thrive during periods of heavy rainfall like the kind the state witnessed this year
Elephants continue to die: CAG slams forest department, railways in its audit
Some 61 elephants died due to rail collisions between 2016 and 2019, according to CAG, due to non-compliance with norms