Gharial seen in Pakistan’s Punjab after 3 decades; it likely crossed over from India
Gharials were reintroduced to the Beas river in 2017, having been extirpated in the Punjab region now divided between India and Pakistan
‘Indo-Nepal effort needed to prevent Ganges Basin fish from losing genetic variability’
Steve Lockett, a Mahseer expert, feels the two countries must pool in their efforts to preserve the freshwater fish stocks in the Ganga and its …
30 years of Latur-Osmanabad Quake: It is time we paid proper attention to rehabilitation as a concept, says Atul Deulgaonkar
Senior journalist has just come out with a book on the botched rehabilitation in the aftermath of the quake
DTE Coverage: International Tiger Day 2023
DTE puts together new analysis and insights on the world's biggest and most charismatic cat
Is America redeeming itself vis-à-vis its First Nations?
The country appointed its first Native American poet laureate and apologised for the genocide of aborigines in its largest and richest state on …
‘There still could be a couple of Sumatran rhinos in Myanmar’
As Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino died this week, Down To Earth spoke to expert on the Northeast’s fauna, Anwaruddin Choudhury, …
Will the Indian Army’s Yeti post boost interest in cryptozoology?
For many in the academic world, it is still a pseudoscience, not to be taken seriously at all
For the first time, Delhi govt plans to start bird hospitals
The proposal is part of the Animal Health and Welfare Policy 2018, recently discussed in a government meeting
Will John Chau’s body spread disease among the Sentinelese? Scientists differ
While the body will definitely give out pathogens, whether or not the Sentinelese are susceptible to them is not known
Spread of glanders shows neglect of veterinary science in India
Glanders, a bacterial, zoonotic disease that affects equines and is a potential biological weapon, has been breaking out regularly across India …
Wolf snapped in the Sundarbans for the first time
It is a stray individual that has dispersed nearly 350 km from the nearest wolf population in Purulia, say experts
‘The future of the Indian Wolf is hanging by a slender thread’
Karnataka-based documentary filmmakers, Senani Hegde and Krupakar, whose work on wild dogs has been feted in the past, have recently, won another …
Rite of passage
At its heart, Killa is essentially a coming-of-age movie shot beautifully
A leonine tale for Holi: Could the Asiatic Lion have inspired the figure of Narasimha?
Religious iconography cannot be mapped onto modern taxonomy, say experts
Manor Din: Arupjyoti Saikia on how the Burmese invasion of Assam transpired
It is a story of court intrigues that took place in the final decade of the 600-year-old Ahom Kingdom, one of India’s greatest polities
Are langurs and rhesus macaques really sworn enemies of each other?
Science does not see this relationship in terms of black-and-white
Could clouds’ radiator effect vanish with global warming?
A new study published in Nature makes this conclusion. But not all agree
Water level in major southern and western reservoirs at 50% of storage capacity
Central Water Commission officials say there is no cause for alarm
Vaitarna river attack: Why the bull shark is among the most dangerous animals in the world
Its large size, proclivity for freshwater, abundance and proximity to human populations, particularly in the tropics, makes it more of a …
'Jahangir's scientific contributions have been ignored by mainstream academia'
Ebba Koch is an art and architectural historian. Her area of specialisation is the period of Mughal rule in the Indian Subcontinent (1526-1857). …
US national allegedly killed by Sentinelese tribesmen in the Andamans
John Allen Chau had gone to North Sentinel island, hitherto out of bounds for visitors, reportedly for preaching the Gospel to the tribe
African cheetahs may adapt well to Kuno-Palpur: Dereck Joubert
Down To Earth speaks to veteran wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert about how the cheetah introduction project in Kuno-Palpur could pan out; …
Activists at Berlin conference call out German, Western complicity in funding Fortress Conservation
They urged Western governments to stop taking land from indigenous people in the name of conservation
Gregory XIII: How religious need spurred the reformist pope to recalculate time 440 years ago
The early arrival of Easter because of the long Julian Calendar necessitated the formation of a new calendar
India is many, not one; has assimilated ideas from everywhere: Upcoming report
Experts on genetics, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and history will prepare a 600-page report on 12,000 years of India’…