India’s new climate targets: Bold, ambitious and a challenge for the world
An already low-emitter, India’s new commitments to fight climate change force the historical emitters and China to commit to bolder emission-…
India's 20% ethanol-petrol blending target advanced to 2025
Currently, 8.5% of ethanol is blended with petrol in India
Disha Ravi arrest: Being young in India
They have a vast network, not to hatch conspiracies, but to remain informed. They exchange toolkits, not to spread hate mails but to keep up with …
India needs to set a new conservation agenda for mahseer
Historical misidentification, release into wrong areas as well as dam construction, all are imperilling this most iconic of Asia’s …
Poor no longer moving to higher income bracket: Pronab Sen
Pronab Sen, former chief statistician of India and current programme director of the International Growth Centre’s India Programme, speaks …
Energy in news on April 17
Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around energy
Modi's speech was about concerns of developing countries: Chandra Bhushan
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi analyses Narendra Modi's speech at the COP 21 Paris
National Air Quality Index: A solution with too many problems
Due to lack of monitoring and maintenance, most of the authorized centres have failed to record real-time data on air pollution
COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts
Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said
Despite PM Modi’s assurance, land degradation, desertification increasing
Some 29.7 per cent of India’s land is degraded, according to a new ISRO atlas
No ban on single-use plastics, to be phased out by 2022
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterates a commitment that India made last year
What Mr Narendra Modi needs to do for Ganga
Just planning more sewage treatment plants is not going to clean up the river
Char Dham national highway has cost Uttarakhand its ecological balance
To assess the extent of the ecological damage that construction activity is causing, Down To Earth travelled 250 km on the Char Dham …
Is 100% electrification another myth before polls?
As with most govt schemes, real efficacy of Saubhagya scheme remains unclear & there is reason to question if the real goal of power …
Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse
Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group
Centre approves Operation Green pilot in 8 states
17 clusters have been chosen in 8 states to roll out the pilot of Operation Green, a Central scheme aimed to contain annual price distress …
Windhoek to Jaipur: It is jet set go time for cheetahs
Three Namibian male and five female adult cheetahs, all between two to five-and-a-half-years-old, will make the 11-hour, transcontinental journey …
Taking off from CoP26: Is Green Grids Initiative the way forward for India?
The implementation of the initiative comes at an increased environmental cost due to waste disposal issues
Beware of a deal with Trump
As the US president comes visiting to India there is worry about the demands he will make on intellectual property
India's industrial production shrinks 1.1% in August
Quick estimates show declines in manufacturing, electricity andnegligible growth in mining
Happy birthday PM Modi; here are some messages from those affected by Sardar Sarovar
Filling the reservoir up to the brim may be good photo-op, but a dangerous one. Here’s why
A ‘kick’ass jibe
Could Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘gadha’ comment increase awareness about wild equid conservation in India?
Centre overrules Supreme Court directive on combined medical entrance test
The latest Union government’s rule intends to allow the states to conduct their own medical entrance exams for the current academic year
The unbearable burden of 2015
This is the second full budget of the NDA, coinciding with the second year of its governance
103rd Indian Science Congress begins at Mysuru
Event to stress on the use of science and technology for indigenous development in India