What you should know about #SaveTheInternet
Following intense lobbying by telecom operators, TRAI has called for feedback from stakeholders before imposing an additional fee on Internet services
The sinking ship of the desert
The camel is perfectly suited to the region’s climate. It is a frugal water-drinker and grazes by browsing from one plant to another, allowing …
Delhi’s medicine baba
Omkar Nath Sharma, 77, is a walking medicine bank. The resident of Delhi is called “medicine baba” by many children. Sharma has made it his …
‘SDGs need to be reworked to tackle hunger, poverty’
Report released ahead of UN meet says world will miss targets set under sustainable development goals unless these are implemented in an …
Battle for Nag river
Nag river has been in the eye of a controversy for the past two years over its source of origin. While environmentalists claim the river …
Homeless in cold Delhi
Though the Delhi government claims to have set up 257 night shelters, the facilities are hardly sufficient for the city’s more than a lakh …
Race for Ebola vaccine continues despite failures
Treatments for patients infected with the Ebola virus are still in early stages of development, says expert body
Can the world agree to an equitable climate deal before Paris?
Our coverage and updates from the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),…
30 years after Bhopal gas tragedy
2014 marks the 30th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy. Bhopal now has three generations of people suffering from diseases or disabilities caused …
Hudhud aftermath
Cyclone, strong winds and intense rains cause extensive damage to coastal Andhra Pradesh, Odisha. Next worry, floods
Can the world meet its hunger reduction target?
One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry, says recently-released UN State of Food Insecurity Report
Ebola outbreak
Are nations equipped to tackle the deadly virus that threatens to cross Africa's borders?
‘India needs to use its development programmes also to reduce burden of NCDs’
Shoba John is the programme director of HealthBridge Foundation of Canada, based in India. She talks to Vibha Varshney on how the burden of non-…
All you need to know about El Nino
El Niño is a local warming of surface waters which takes place in the entire equatorial zone of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean and …
Cauvery river dispute
We track the many twists and turns in the Cauvery water dispute tale. The river still remains a bone of contention between Karnataka and Tamil …
Debate: Can neutrinos have devastating impacts on local biosphere?
Research on neutrinos has come a long way. First postulated by Swiss scientist Wolfgang Pauli in 1930, neutrinos are tiny and neutral elementary …
While Delhi chokes, other cities also get a whiff
Air pollution has been Delhi’s persistent enemy. It rears its head at the onset of winter when heavy smog envelopes the national capital, …
What's the right strategy to fight the scourge of open defecation?
The inaugural edition of Down To Earth Hindi carried a cover story on the challenge of sanitation in India. The story analysed whether, and how, …
Climate Talkies
In 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the agreement to combat climate change was whittled down and targets were removed. All this was done to bring the US on …
बाढ़ की विभीषिका
उत्तराखंड से लेकर केरल तक, हर तरफ पसरा है बाढ़ का कहर, क्या…
3-Book combo offer on our FIRST FOOD series
We bring you three, tastily prepared books in our First Food Series collection, full of unique and many little known but exciting recipes, from …
Extreme anomaly
Floods in Kerala were a rude reminder that once-in-a-century rain can happen more frequently and hit us with greater intensity. Nagaland, which …
Dark spots in Ujjwala
Connections-based approach does not necessary bolster usage A scheme that was introduced to ensure better penetration of clean energy in the …
What's polluting the air of India's major cities
Out of the 15 most polluted cities in the world in terms of PM 2.5 concentration, 14 are in India. The country is certainly one of the riskiest …
EBOLA: TRACING THE OUTBREAK
This relatively new virus killed more than 11,000 people across West Africa from 2014-16. After an unprecedented epidemic, the diseases continued …