The cleanest cities of India: The transgender community and women keep Paradeep clean
Paradeep has set up a socio-economic model that not only integrates the marginalised but also generates enough revenue to make itself self-…
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
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 …
COVID-19 lockdown: A ventilator for rivers
Of 36 monitoring units placed in the Ganga, water quality at 27 points was found suitable for bathing and propagation of wildlife and fisheries …
Environment Reader for Universities
The book is totally based on the UGC syllabus for environmental studies for undergraduates; and it comes to you from CSE, an NGO whose primary …
Living Skeletons
While prolonged drought and untimely floods destroyed crops, the emerging food crisis has often become a full-scale humanitarian disaster due to …
Dirty air and mortality: the insidious link
Exposure to PM2.5 accounted for about 4.2 million deaths from heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, chronic lung disease and respiratory …
Engulfed in Toxins: Delhi Citizens fight against Okhla Waste to Energy Plant
Since 2009, the residents of Sukhdev Vihar, a residential colony in Delhi, have been fighting against a waste-to-energy plant that uses dirty …
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 …
Fixing cities' water crises could send our climate targets down the gurgler
Cities all over the world are facing growing challenges to provide clean water. And many of the fixes, such as desalination plants, have a huge …
Battery downfall for e-Rickshaw owners in India
The singular complaint of the E-rickshaw drivers is the battery. Most of the batteries die out in about 4-5 months. They have low range and need …
N. Raja of Toyota India on future of Electric Vehicles in India
N Raja, Deputy Managing Director of Toyota Kirloskar talks about the roadmap for India to convert to electric and the bottlenecks. He says that …
They are people’s trees
Sacred groves have been revived, as in Manipur, or are emerging, as in Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and eastern Maharashtra. Moreover, the root cause …
CLIMATE CHANGE NOW - The Story of Carbon Colonisation
We live in the age of climate change—heat waves, extreme weather events, increase in diseases induced by deforestation, floods and snowfall …
Climate change - For the young and curious
Earth is getting warmer. The climate is changing, faster than ever before. Why? What is the science behind this?
How India commutes to work
As Delhi's odd-even scheme prepares to make a comeback in April 2016, we take a look at what modes of transport, if any, India uses to get to work
Walking deep into fog
India embarks on an ambitious scientific sojourn to understand the crippling weather phenomenon
Stillbirth: a reality check
The number of stillbirths has remained unchanged since 2011 and is still very high globally. There were 2.6 million stillborn babies in 2015, …
Is the Stethoscope Dead?
As 2016 rolled on, the classic stethoscope completed 200 years. On its birth anniversary, there has been quite a debate over retiring the medical …
Africa Baby Boom
The continent’s population will continue to soar with the birth of almost two billion babies in the next 35 years and eventually reach 4.2 …
Explainer: what is pain and what is happening when we feel it?
Pain scientists are reasonably agreed that pain is an unpleasant feeling in our body that makes us want to stop and change our behaviour
Silence of the poor
Rich nations celebrate a toothless climate summit, even as the effects of pollution become hard to negotiate
Solar freakin' roadways? Why the future of this technology may not be so bright
Andrew Thomson, Australian National University
'The gut influences our mood'
Giulia Enders is a two-time scholarship winner studying medicine at the Institute for Microbiology in Frankfurt, Germany. Her presentation of …