South Asia

Steep crisis

UNESCO asked to list Mount Everest as endangered

Global warming hits Walker circulation

Global warming slows down wind circulation over the Pacific

Rupert Murdoch turns green campaigner

Kidney stones tread north US

America thinks

War-like climate

Warming exacerbates conflict in Africa

Making space for emissions

7th GEF Assembly: Decision on direct funding to civil societies likely during the meeting

More funds would be needed to make this possible without alienating governments

Plastic-free planet: Members struggle to reach consensus on rules of procedure

INC-2 decides Open-Ended Working Group; may delay negotiations

Silence of the birds

Large-scale logging in the tropics has led to the disappearance of bird species

Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

The coast is not clear

A new report paints a grim picture of the world's coastal areas

Companies, business associations effective agents to counter climate change

Cottonseeds to check malnourishment?

2006: The waterloo year

According to report

According to report

A year of Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: How far have we come?

Decisions deferred to 2024; slow progress might make it difficult to meet targets by 2030

Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC

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

GWP100 or GWP*: Meat, dairy lobby pushing for new methane metric. How this will enable greenwashing

New method takes current methane emissions as baseline to present minor reductions as negative emissions or cooling

High BP, tobacco are top killers

Study on global disease burden shows infectious diseases are declining

Smog in the office

A soup of chemicals found in modern offices may be harmful to the occupants' health

Mapping the dirt

NASA comes up with the most comprehensive view yet of global air pollution

Dirty and thirsty