Zealandia: Earth’s Forgotten eighth continent

An international team of geologists and seismologists have now created a new map of Zealandia

Hidden wonders of India

For the first time, a book comprehensively collates all scientific streams about the natural history of the Indian subcontinent. Down To Earth …

Here is why you should plant babool

The tree can grow well on degraded land, can survive droughts and floods, and has numerous medicinal properties 

Gondwana ‘wellspring’ of mammalian evolution, not Laurasia: Research

Mammals evolved 50 million years earlier than thought in the southern supercontinent and migrated north from there

Cyclone Amphan could advance southwest monsoon over the Andamans: IMD

Expert sceptical over the advance of the monsoon over the Indian mainland

Domestic violence to rise as subcontinent heats up: Study

Each 1°C increase in the annual mean temperature associated with a mean increase in domestic violence prevalence of 4.4

After bats, do not make marmots into villains: Expert

The rodents have come into focus ever since reports surfaced of a bubonic plague outbreak in Mongolia, China and the Russian Far East

When exactly did the tiger colonise the Indian subcontinent?

Down To Earth popped the question to geneticists, historians and experts on the cat superstar. Here is what we were able to deduce