COVID-19: The unfolding predicament in villages of Thar desert

Infrastructural constraints are intensified by lack of substantive knowledge, awareness and behavioural limitations about health

Breakthrough in thermal storage technology

The plant will use a technology that will be able to produce electricity for about 20 hours in a day

Thar desert faces threat

Coming of a desert

Rajasthan Locust Attack: Both state, Centre need to shed complacency

Between 1993 and 2020, the governments hardly invested in locust control departments

World’s largest solar plant opens in California

The plant will generate enough electricity to power 160,000 homes

Sea that isn't

In just 50 years, the Aral Sea - once the fourth largest inland water body - has turned into world's newest desert 

Can painting a blade black save Great Indian Bustards from wind turbines?

A regulatory slowdown in wind power production could result from failing to address the harm caused by turbines to wildlife

Crops failing against rising temperatures, pest attacks: Study

Rising temperatures due to climate change may be compounding the stress on crops in multiple ways, it says

Locust fears haunt Bihar’s farmers, experts downplay potential threat

There is a likely threat, but the possibility of locusts reaching the state are very less, say experts

Environment in elections: Will climate change alter voting dynamics in Ladakh?

Scientists, journalists and others are confident that warning signs in the cold desert & Sonam Wanghchuk’s fast have made environment a …

World’s biggest solar power project becomes operational in US

Ivanpah produces 392 MW power; avoids emissions of 400,000 tonnes of CO2

Peninsular India may get locusts after 46 years. Blame the wind

The pests are being carried into the region by the southern branch of winds entering India north of the Western Ghats

Rising to the climate call: How to tackle the impact

A series of interactive infographics to explore the 21st Century's toughest development challenge: The planet's changing climate

Solar energy from North Africa could light up UK homes by 2018

Electricity to be transported from Sahara desert to Europe via undersea cable

Tracking locust attack: Jaipur firemen go the extra mile to resist invasion

Officials destroy huge swarm of locusts that had taken residence at Mahar Kalan in Karanpur village

Drought forever

Severe drought strikes India every eight to nine years and is a major reason for perpetuating poverty

Should villages in Desert National Park be relocated?

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

Rajasthan Locust Attack: Pests plus lockdown leave farmers in a soup

Destruction of the cotton crop, unsold rabi crops like wheat and barley and lack of help from the government making things worse for farmers

Large-scale solar needs tighter land regulations

The fundamental approach to solar taken up by the government was brought to question at the State of Renewable Energy in India, 2019 conference …

Global Eco Watch: Reindeer may have been domesticated 2,000 years ago

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

Tracking locust attack: In Rajasthan’s Dholpur, pest keeps villagers on toes

Damage to crops less as villages not heavily cultivated, according to preliminary estimates

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves