Battle for Niyamgiri
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Villagers block garbage route
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Count Your Carbon Footprints
If you are a resident of Hong Kong, or for that matter, Abu Dhabi or Doha, you have to admit that you have a much larger carbon footprint than …
Displaced by Disasters
In 2016, one person every second was forced to flee their home. Most of the disaster-related displacements recorded in 2016 were linked to …
Episode 1 New Vastu with Ashok B Lall: How to shade your windows for a cool home
The window is your immediate connection to Su-Urja or good energy. It is the source of daylight, it is the source of fresh air and the breeze …
Extreme Is The New Normal
The world has seen 16 record-breaking hottest years since 2000. In fact, global surface temperatures are already rising about 20 times faster …
Killer roads
India is committed to reduce the number of road accidents and fatalities by 50 per cent by 2020. However, road safety levels have taken a serious …
Debate: Should Indian government put a comprehensive ban on commercial surrogacy?
The surrogacy market in India is worth over US $2 billion. India is now planning to regulate this trade. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, …
Technology can boost farming in Africa, but it can also threaten biodiversity — how to balance the two
In Africa, 75% of agricultural growth comes from farmland expansion into forests and savannas, leading to habitat loss & fragmentation
In pictures: UNESCO’s global geoparks get 18 new sites
UNESCO is adding 18 sites to its global geoparks network, bringing the total number up to 195 in 48 countries. Two UNESCO Member States have …
India launches National Quantum Mission with a budget of over Rs 6,000 crore
Quantum technology can also find applications in medicine, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, security, employment generation & navigation
In photos: Forest fires ruined over 67,000 ha of Odisha’s forest cover in 5 years
According to Odisha’s forest minister, over 0.173 million forest fires were reported in the state in half a decade
'Extreme' is new normal
It is time to accept that we are beginning to see the impact of climate change in the form of increased frequency and intensity of extreme …
Ayushman Bharat: Govt appeasing private interests
At an industry organised event, government representatives were seen appeasing concerns of private healthcare providers regarding the …
In Odisha, state’s monopoly on minor forest produce needs to end
State has to amend existing policies that violate Forest Rights Act 2006 and deprive locals of the ownership of minor forest produce
Why conservation is tricky
A collection of nine essays highlight the messy nature of conservation in post-reform India and unravels lesser-known species, habitats and …
Financing Fossil Fools
Africa has to build resilience to both energy and climate crisis, but analysis of public finance flowing to energy infrastructure in Africa from …
Finding a way through prolonged haze and policy maze
As cities around the world saw smog-ridden days and unabated carbon emission in 2016, Down To Earth looks into the scale of problem and solutions …
Living Dead
More than three decades after the Bhopal gas leak killed a few thousand people and affected about 500,000 others, the struggle continues for …
Why the US should quit the Paris Agreement
Trump's presidency would be extremely detrimental to the Agreement and destroy the climate convention negotiated over the past 25 years
Climate Catastrophe and Resilience
About 11,000 extreme weather events killed more than 528,000 people and caused economic losses of around US$ 3.08 trillion between 1996 and 2015. …
Seeds of green culture
from shoes made of old tyres in Ghana to roads built from recycled plastic in Kenya, 20 environment friendly start-ups from developing countries …