Injustice gets nastier

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood

The river has strayed from its flood control route

Environment Day: Green agenda for new government

Get the focus on environment and health, Mr Prime Minister

DTE Special on International Women’s Day 2024

Down To Earth delves into 7 exemplary initiatives to illustrate formidable influence of self-help groups

क्या भारत ने आय की गरीबी को मापना बंद कर दिया है?

जब भारत ने 10 साल से अधिक समय से गरीबी का आकलन ही नहीं किया है, तब वित्त मंत्री अपने बजट भाषण में किस ...

Debunking K-shaped recovery: Why the SBI’s new report gets it all wrong about India’s economic growth

The research of SBI is not representative of the Indian economy; it also pedals a newly-destined ‘narrative’

Rise of the invaders

Unprecedented rise in the world’s invasive alien species contributes to 60 per cent of extinctions and puts ecosystems at risk

Union budget 2024-25: Has India abandoned measuring income poverty?

It is over 10 years since India estimated its poverty; for which poverty reduction did the Finance Minister then take credit for?

खेती-बाड़ी को किस दिशा ले जाएगी घटते खेतों की प्रवृत्ति?

खेती-किसानी की दुनिया ऐतिहासिक बदलाव से गुजर रही है। खेतों की संख्या तेजी से कम हो रही है जबकि उसका आकार बढ़ रहा है। ...

अंतरिम बजट 2024: आर्थिक वृद्धि के पीछे छिपी अग्रिम चेतावनी को समझना क्यों जरूरी?

2023-24 में कृषि क्षेत्र की वृद्धि दर 1.8 प्रतिशत रहने का अनुमान है - जो वित्त वर्ष 2022-23 की 4 प्रतिशत वृद्धि के मुकाबले ...

Women’s Day 2024: ‘She’ is for Self Help Empowerment

In India, women self-help groups have been a source of empowerment, fostering economic independence, social stature & community resilience. …

Bangladesh's GM gamble

Anil Chandra Mahanta, one of the first 20 farmers to cultivate genetically modified brinjal in South Asia, does not understand the new technology.…

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

Himalayan meltdown: ‘Besides global warming, pollution also impacts glaciers’

ICIMOD director general talks to Down To Earth about the first-ever assessment of climate change impacts on Hindu Kush Himalayan region and how …

Sabhas we listen to

On the 30th year of Panchayati Raj, the rise of the Gram Sabha holds the hope of making local-government accountable  

Monsoon 2021: Is it time for severe drought in India’s northeast and northwest?

September rain will not be enough to compensate for deficient rainfall in northwest and northeast states of India, says IMD forecast

CLIMATE CHANGE NOW - The Story of Carbon Colonisation

We live in the age of climate change—heat waves, extreme weather events, increase in diseases induced by deforestation, floods and snowfall …

Environment Reader for Universities

The book is totally based on the UGC syllabus for environmental studies for undergraduates; and it comes to you from CSE, an NGO whose primary …

General Elections 2019: Science in polls, from feel 'good' to feel 'strong'

With the Balakot episode and later the ASAT declaration, the ruling party has brought ‘muscular science’ into the spotlight alongside …

मानसून का पीछा 2019 : जुलाई में कम वर्षा मतलब सामान्य से कम मानसून

यदि जून में वर्षा 100 मिलीमीटर से कम रहती है तो ऐसा बीते 118 वर्षों में चौथी बार होगा  

चुनावी साल करेगा कमाल

विश्व के करीब 74 देश इस साल अपनी सरकार बनाने के लिए मताधिकार का इस्तेमाल करेंगे। 300 करोड़ मतदाता अपने वोट डालेंगे। इस कारण ...

Tax avoided by corporate groups can eradicate global poverty

As economic slowdown murmur becomes loud across the world, the debate over income inequality gains volume