Water woes

Swelling seas

Scientists say the rise in sea levels in 1998 may have been due to El Nio

Death by disease

Warning signals

Very vague

Delegates came and talked but failed to arrive at any conclusions at the World Water Forum

Reined in

Stub cut short

Death at your doorstep

Sense of self

Biometry’s colonial roots  

Himalayan meltdown: ‘Besides global warming, pollution also impacts glaciers’

ICIMOD director general talks to Down To Earth about the first-ever assessment of climate change impacts on Hindu Kush Himalayan region and how …

India has highest number of extremely thin children: World Hunger Index

The UN report urges countries to pay special attention to vulnerable groups like infant, children aged under five, school aged children, …

Countries’ targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions insufficient: UNFCCC

At the current pace, 86% of the carbon budget for the 1.5°C threshold of warming could be depleted by 2030

IPCC report warning: 4.5°C rise in Kolkata by century-end, rise in cyclones, sea level

Sea level close to Sundarbans at the southern fringe of Kolkata expected to rise 60 cm by century-end  

Warming planet may drive return of ‘medieval megadroughts’ in US

Rapid increase in aridity and sea surface temperatures around the globe because of human-activities may lead to severe droughts

Hunger can't wait

While the decline in hunger and undernutrition has been robust in some parts of the world, many countries still suffer the indignity of food …

Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised

The tropical oceans and the Arctic were the first regions to begin warming, in the 1830s

Need a revolution to save the Earth from climate change: Pope

The Vatican head warns that the planet is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth

Driving home a point without any solutions

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Uproar over a burning issue

With rising awareness regarding the hazards of incinerating waste, a lot of proposals for incinerators have been ruled out in the West and the …

Die hard

Identified a century ago and viciously attacked by pesticides and drugs, the Anopheles mosquito and the malarial parasite still survive to prey …

DENMARK

People collect rainwater without any support from the government. This saves the avoidable overuse of drinking water

The value of a raindrop

Rainwater is as usable to the industrialised North as to the underdeveloped South. As important to the poor, rural household as to the gardens …

Demystifying science

To promote public understanding of science, it is essential not only to initiate openness and dialogue between the scientific community and the …

SARS Wars

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is making the world sneeze. Even as the global health community struggles to unmask a new, deadly, …

Risks of freedom

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