‘Largest public collection of unique plant germplasm in the world up for private takeover’
Restructuring of CGIAR ‘represents a threat to democratic and local control of food systems’, warns United Nations Special Rapporteur …
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
Animal group urges PM Modi: Raise wildlife trade ban issue in G20 meet
The organisation also floated a petition, which, it claims, has received over one million signatures globally
Global Eco Watch: How climate may have helped exacerbate Spanish Flu
Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia
Search for prey in diminishing habitats drains cheetahs of energy, says study
Scientists are studying factors that may have affected their population
Global Eco Watch: Carnivorous frog enters South Australia, could wreak havoc
Global Eco Watch: Reliance plans ‘largest zoo’ in Jamnagar
Global Eco Watch: ‘Strongest storm on Earth’ in 2020, slams into the Philippines
Global Eco Watch: People of Indus Valley produced earliest dairy products in the Subcontinent
Decline in monarch butterfly population not because of migration: Study
The ‘migration mortality’ hypothesis, highlighted by two scientific journals, is not backed by data, says the study’s author …
Global Eco Watch: Polar bears could become extinct by 2100, says study
Nearly 3 bln animals perished in Australian bushfires: WWF study
An estimated 143 million mammals, 180 million birds, 51 million frogs and 2.5 billion reptiles affected
Tree-planting campaigns can reduce, not improve biodiversity, shows study
Tree plantations can contradict the real purpose of planting trees, according to the study
‘Dead’ coral reefs as important as ‘live’ ones, shows new study
‘Dead’ coral reefs support ‘cryptic’ animals — including fishes, snails, tiny crabs and worms — who hide …
Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (June 15-19, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the week