Dumped with toxic moss

N - bombs cooled the Earth

Rocket row will delay space plan

Victims protest

Close watch

As Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, here are 5 genuine nuclear dangers for us all

Will we act to eliminate the nuclear threat or press mute on the alarm and drift back to sleep?  

Food crisis: Food-insecure population doubled in 2 years, says UN Secretary-General

Agencies call upon countries to increase food production and not to stop export as the Russia-Ukraine war rages on  

Ukraine invasion fallout: Food, energy price rise to continue till 2024-end, says World Bank

Shift to more costly trade patterns has begun; transition to cleaner energy could be delayed

The invasion of Ukraine has raised some difficult questions about human rights

In both, Russia and Ukraine, the people’s right to civilian existence has been taken away

Unaware and unprepared

More than 26 asteroids entered Earth's atmosphere between 2000 and 2013. None of them was detected in advance

Troubled oil over waters

A severe oil spill in the Russian arctics has bulldozed the environment and created resentment among the local people. As the government reels …

Fresh spectre of nuclear anarchy

Increasing incidents of smuggling weapons-grade nuclear material have explosive global ramifications

Countdown to self-reliance

Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites

Russian body confirms N-dumping

The Soviet Union -- and now Russia -- has dumped large quantities of radioactive waste into the sea, according to the report of a commission set …

Goodbye, freon

Russian researchers have come up with a power-saving and ozone-friendly refrigerator which operates without a motor and uses a semiconductor as …

Oil in a day's work

THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY·John V Mitchell, Peter Beck and Michael Grubb· Energy and Environment Programme, The Royal Institute …

2022 too short, too far: How the Russian invasion of Ukraine impacted the world

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

What’s in a surname

Culture>> Family Name • Tajikistan/Russia

News snippets

Bear orphanage

Hitler's minefield

Great Siberian thaw

Methane, carbon dioxide will be released on a huge scale

In Short

In the midst of war, Russia hits at patents

As US-EU sanctions deepen, Moscow passes a law to allow free use of patents owned by ‘unfriendly countries’

Famines: what 20th century food crises tell us about how to cope with the Ukraine fallout

Our success at navigating the first serious global challenge to food security in the 21st century will indicate how well equipped we are to …