Stop attacking health workers, cease hostilities in Ukraine: WHO

Attacks on health workers have led to at least 12 deaths and 34 injuries in Ukraine since February 24

‘It is not just a nuclear risk, but a climate risk’

Jan Haverkamp, a nuclear expert of Greenpeace (Central and Eastern Europe), spoke to Down To Earth on about Akademik Lomonosov — the first …

Arctic rivers continue to melt more and more every summer, says report

The Arctic Report Card for 2018 notes that this provides powerful evidence for the intensification of the Arctic hydrologic cycle

Aid package not enough, say Europe’s struggling farmers

The EU has announced a $560-million support package for farmers hit by Russia’s import ban

Virtual war

Wikipedia becomes target of anonymous edits against Russia Wikipedia>>Politics>>Russia/Ukraine

Russia's role raises hopes and fears

With Russia participating in the first unified space station project, international cooperation reaches new heights. But there are also doubts …

Why Russia pulled out of its grain deal with Ukraine — and what that means for the global food system

Ukrainian grain is important for feeding the world and the the Black Sea is a vital route to getting it to people who need it.

Wisent: Ukraine war could wreck efforts to save and rewild Europe’s great wild bovid, say new study authors

Parts of Poland, Ukraine, western Russia, parts of the Balkans and Germany most appropriate to rewild wisent

Simply Put: Becoming a Russian Bear

Life-taking' water

Danger zone

Junkies rule Russia

Living dangerously

A study on polychlorinated biphenyls in Russia may throw up some startling findings

Clearing the way

As Russia signs the Kyoto protocol, positive action against global warming seems on the anvil

Thriving mafia

Russia has turned the Dnipro into a major weapon of war: Paul Josephson

Down To Earth speaks to specialist in Soviet and Russian history about the impact of two years of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Dnipro river

Why is a wisent herd in Ukraine on the brink of extinction? Can matchmaking save them?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has decimated the population of male wisent in the Zalissia National Nature Park; translocating two …

Oil hypocrisy: Countries that imposed crude oil sanctions on Russia used India, others as ‘laundromats’ for refined products

Two Gujarat ports exported the highest seaborne refined oil to Price Cap Coalition countries  

Everyone exposed to shock waves of war; largest cost-of-living crisis: UN

In South Asia, more than 0.5 billion affected by Russia-Ukraine war’s impacts on food, finance 

River flowing through the most polluted Russian city turns red

Russian authorities assume that water has reddened due to chemical waste discharged from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant

The imperatives of governing world’s forests

For the past eight years, leaders of public forest agencies from the world’s most forested countries have been taking part in a series of …

Celestial explorers

Book>> Voyager, seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery • by Stephen J Pyne • Viking • Rs 1,000

Russia-Ukraine conflict pushing world towards clean energy, finds World Energy Outlook 2022

Switch to renewables means natural gas no longer a viable transition fuel

Will climate action be a casualty?

Have we learnt the lessons on the impact of burning fossil fuels yet?

To pull down or not

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