Sitting cool

High-risk high-rises

Depleting ozone layer

Clean(er) cooking in India: How solid fuels in rural Indian households contribute to climate crisis

Solid cooking fuel use makes up 13% of India’s national GHG emissions but is unaccounted in the national report

Australia heatwave: New South Wales authorities report facing worst bushfire risk since ‘Black Summer’

Australia officially declares El Nino is underway as Sydney set to break September temperature records

Himachal Pradesh forest fires: Dhamarshala, Kasauli pine for respite

Extremely high summer temperature and inflammable pine needles causing fire to engulf forests in the state

Fire continues to rage in Uttarakhand forests; locals complain of govt inaction

Forest officials admit that they are facing resource crunch when it comes to tackling forest fires

California’s burning woods are an alarm US can’t ignore

One of the deadliest wildfires in California was triggered by several factors—all pointing to changing climate

Human actions make Amazon rainforest more vulnerable to fire

Rainforests don't normally burn, but in 2015 Brazilian rainforests experienced 19,739 cases of fire

Coal mining in India has a human cost

Communities living close to coal mines in India face the constant threat of fires and land subsidence forcing them to flee  

7.4 magnitude quake in Taiwan; Japan issues tsunami warning for Okinawa & other Ryukyu islands

The Philippines also issues tsunami warnings for its Batanes islands group; social media awash with cataclysmic images and videos from Taiwan

Climate crisis everywhere, all at once: Record-breaking temperature in 10 countries across 4 continents

Indonesia, South Africa, Gabon, Kenya, South Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Guyana, Colombia and Rio burning up

Simply Put: Polluter pays? Really?

No 'gassing' the public

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2023)

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

Excess rainfall in these Indian protected areas offers no relief from wildfires

Over 50% of fire occurrences were reported from 9 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, shows DTE analysis

What is ‘heat dome’, the phenomenon causing record temperatures across US?

‘Heat domes’ have also been associated with unusually warm periods in India, Bangladesh, China and some other Asian countries

Bushfire smoke eats up the ozone protecting us from dangerous radiation. The damage will increase as the world heats up

We’re likely to see falling ozone concentrations in new places rather than just around the South Pole

Don’t assume Pantanal’s jaguars are safe. Here is why

Down To Earth speaks with jaguar expert and conservation scientist Fernando Tortato about the road ahead for jaguars in their stronghold of the …

Anthropogenic emissions cause distinct regional impacts on extreme fire weather: Study

By 2080, greenhouse gases are expected to raise the risk of extreme wildfire by 50%, according to the study

Drought, climate change were kindling; now Australia's east coast ablaze

Most tragic losses in northern NSW: 970,000 hectares burned, 3 dead, at least 150 homes destroyed

Amazon fires declined in September, but deforestation persists: Amazon Watch

The outbreak of fires in the rainforest declined 19.6 per cent compared to the same period last year

‘The burning of the Amazon will not alter wind patterns’

Down To Earth spoke to meteorologist U C Mohanty about the impact of the Amazon fires on global warming and wind patterns

Scientists suggest early warning system for forest fires

The strategy involves providing for greater involvement of local communities and use of modern tools of communication technologies such as mobile apps

Himalayas on fire: Himachal’s tinder-dry forests, on its brown snowless hills, burn due to low moisture

Forest fire incidents have increased seven times this year; there have been 2,050 incidents in 3 months, data shows