Typhoon Wipha kills 17 in Japan

Japan Meteorological Agency had called it once-in-a-decade event

The ill effects

Warming climate spawns disease epidemics

Pestilential high tech

Wheaticide

Herbicide promotes toxic fungi

Virus scare

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News for farmers

Warming bad for rice

Rice is a staple diet for many. But a recent study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) under the United States department of agriculture has …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 12, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Secret lives of cougars: Pumas might be ‘gardening’ to attract prey to hunting hotspots

Study suggests prey carcasses fertilise the soil to grow nutrient-rich plants that attract large hooved mammals to hunting areas

Coal crisis: Why Delhi’s coal stock is critical & what other states are doing

Delhi generates 1,107 megawatts of electricity and imports 4,154 MW from neighbouring states

Scientist meets bumpkin

Aparna Pallavi on what happens when farmers' innovations are brought to the notice of agriculture scientists 

Can agriculture fuel mass extinction?

We must make gradual changes and develop agriculture according to the principles of life on the planet

Sloppy govt attitude stands in way of toilet-linked biogas plants in Gujarat

The administration is dragging its feet over the project and technology that can manage faecal waste as well as generate clean fuel 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 17, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Stage set for armageddon

Two wheat genes that confer absolute resistance to lethal Ug99 stem rust strain identified

Seeds bill doesn't matter in India's horticulture capital

sopan joshi meets farmer-tycoons oblivious of the Seeds Bill 2004, but hooked to a biotech future

Mainstreaming co-treatment of faecal sludge for reducing pollution in Ganga

Excreta of 73 per cent of UP’s population is not managed safely. Out of this, 48 per cent is dependent on on-site sanitation systems

Wild trouble

Trade threatens medicinal plants

World’s largest solar plant opens in California

The plant will generate enough electricity to power 160,000 homes

Mega solar power project becomes operational in Thailand

The project will produce enough electricity to power 287,500 households

Dilemma over food

Under siege

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