Melting Mongolian ice reveals fragile artifacts that provide clues about how past people lived

Ice patches also preserve ‘ecofacts’ that trace important ecological changes, like shifting tree lines or changing animal habitats

The Sikh Gurus' service to the sick can be a lesson for today's pandemic

Down To Earth speaks to Mohinder Singh, professor and director of the National Institute of Panjab Studies and Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan,New …

'There are more than 60,000 tree species in the world & my book had room for only 80!'

Jonathan Drori, author of Around the World in 80 Trees tells S S Jeevan about the phylogeny, ecological services, and the sociological …

Exploring the similarities in human action

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Monument to hunger

The 1784 famine of Lucknow region and a nawab's philanthropic gesture gave us a magnificent monument

Public domain is not elementary, Sherlock

The Sherlock Holmes case highlights the stranglehold of copyright laws in the US

History or just story

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Tamil Nadu prosecutes 104 manufacturers, sellers of multi-dose Diclofenac linked with vulture deaths

Animal conservationists welcomes step, say safe alternatives available

Bihar starts tagging migratory birds for conservation

As many as 91 migratory birds have been tagged so far

Disparate narratives

Environmental history writing is beginning to look beyond colonial forestry

Home truths

The saga of Diego Garcia's Chagossian evacuees

How Diego Garcia became a US military base

Opening to the past

In the last 444 years, the Indian Subcontinent has seen just 21 ‘confirmed unprovoked’ shark attacks: Florida Museum data

Last year saw 69 confirmed unprovoked shark attacks globally, 10 of which were fatal, according to The International Shark Attack File, …

Subaltern, forgotten: How mainstream narratives neglected the Bhumij, among the first to revolt against the British

The Prime Minister released ‘Dictionary of Martyrs‘ of India’s Freedom Struggle, selecting 1857 as the watershed year, …

Cross-continent social networking may have existed 400,000 years ago, fire use patterns suggest

The various groups of hominins were tolerant towards one another and exchanged ideas much like modern humans

Ancient southern Kalahari was more important to human evolution than previously thought

Ga-Mohana was much wetter than today, with pools of standing water and waterfalls tumbling down the hillside

‘Chinese food is so entrenched in our lives; COVID-19 can’t change that’

Down To Earth talks to Miranda Brown, historian of premodern Chinese food and medicine and University of Michigan professor, about Chinese …

The revenge of the boar

The wild pig can be a danger to humans, as some very special ones in northern Iraq found recently

Barbarism to animals has a hoary pedigree

Through the centuries, human beings have tried to establish their dominance over animals, killing them for both food and sport. Even today, …

Dots not joined

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Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

Interstate disputes over Krishna waters

Democracy and the good road

Is it really hotter now than any time in 100,000 years?

Earth is currently on course to reach temperatures of roughly 3°C  above preindustrial levels by the end of the century