Monsoon maps on trees

Growth rings allow for future prediction of drought  

Bank’s first contest

Developing countries challenge US monopoly by putting up candidates for World Bank’s presidency

Can India-EU strategic partnership focus on climate change, clean energy?

Trade and security was the focus of the recently concluded India-EU summit, but the two entities need to move beyond that?

Burying in empty space

An old plan to lug deadly radioactive wastes to the remote corners of the solar system is being revived by some Russian scientists

Clean burn

Russia ambiguous on Kyoto

With Russia blowing hot and cold on ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the ninth conference of parties (COP-9) to the UN Framework Convention on …

Russia reneging on Kyoto?

The earth is hotter than it has been in the past 2000 years and the largest ice shelf in the Artic has broken into two after having existed for …

Bush, Putin on nuclear energy consolidation drive

Silent epidemic: Superbugs killing India’s newborns

Each time we use antibiotics, we allow the few superbugs—bacteria that are able to survive the antibiotic—to thrive, says an expert

Bioprates in the dragnet

Illegal smuggling of insects from the Himalaya comes into focus with the arrest of two Russians in Sikkim

Toxic contamination in Russia's Neva river

Stupid growth

Global Eco Watch: How climate may have helped exacerbate Spanish Flu

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology  

Denmark stakes claim over North Pole and a large chunk of the Arctic

Seeks formal recognition of its extended territory from UN

Scientists warn against deep sea mining

Call for sustainable management of oceans

Russian nuclear attack

Radioactive Russian weed gets out of hand

Out with asbestos!

September saw a slew of developments giving renewed impetus to the global movement against asbestos

India to be 'leading manufacturer' of Russia’s 'doubtful' trial vaccine

Experts caution Indian government against hastened response; Russia researchers claim their vaccine is the best

Lithuania, Latvia ranked as world’s top environmental democracies

The index evaluated the availability of information and public participation related to environment matters in 70 countries

Brickbats for compulsory licences

US criticises India and BRIC group for strengthening provisions on life-saving medicines

'Climate change to impact suitability of tropical agricultural lands by 2100'

Suitability will shift to higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere

Follow Up

Polar potential

India's nuclear chimera

Going by the Kudankulan example, India’s nuclear power generation target is a pie in the sky

Developing countries outshine G7 nations in health aid

Study shows aid by BRICS 10 times higher than by developed countries