Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

New study can help improve earthquake prediction

An equation developed by researchers brings back focus on earthquake prediction

Coronavirus update: India tally crosses 8 million mark

Global tally crosses 44 million mark

“आगे और बड़ा संकट हमारा इंतजार कर रहा है”

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Book Digest: Mapping the COVID-19 story, human behaviour driving infections and more

From accounts of previous epidemics that should have prepared us for COVID-19 to history of poverty in the US, DTE tracks contemporary books on …

Global Eco Watch: Atlantic Salmon returning to Maine river after dam removals

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

Why does racism prevail? Leading scholars apply their minds

Much of what we accomplished was the act of discussion itself. Significant insights emerged from honest discussions — process was …

दुनिया में बढ़ रहा है इलेक्ट्रॉनिक कचरा, 2019 में केवल 17 फीसदी किया गया रिसाइकल

2019 में भारत ने करीब 32.3 लाख मीट्रिक टन ई-वेस्ट उत्पन्न किया था जोकि अफ्रीका के कुल ई-वेस्ट से भी ज्यादा है

RESCUED or DOOMED

Nations adopt a diluted agreement on implementing the Kyoto Protocol that gives away too many concessions to polluting countries

Sinks: Can't convince? Confound

The US has spearheaded a puzzling proposal on sinks that opens loopholes for their own emissions

Unequal rights, equal responsibilities?

Industrialised countries want to have the cake and eat it too. President Carlos Menem delivered it to them on a silver platter by agreeing to …

Who benefits most from US-China trade war: Chinese ‘province’ Taiwan

American consumers pay more now; imports from others significantly up; no gains for US Inc: UNCTAD report 

Growing dissent against ‘successful’ economic growth model

A new de-globalising world order means that to find equitable and affordable growth, we need to challenge the polluted model that has pushed us …

While nations play politics, cities and states are taking up the climate challenge

Efforts to reduce global warming are advanced by the pedestrian, daily choices of households, businesses and sub-national governments

What's in store for US climate agenda after Obama?

The success of Paris Climate deal depends largely on the political willingness of one of the largest emitters in the world

WTO finally sides with the US; terms India’s solar conditions ‘inconsistent’

India had appealed against an earlier decision of WTO which favoured the US

US, epicentre of unequal wealth

As the US completes 50 years of its "war on poverty", the country does not have much to celebrate, thinks JOEL BERG, an expert on …

15 African nations set up fund to fight Ebola

The recent outbreak of disease has claimed about 500 lives; medics continue efforts to combat misconceptions and mistrust around the disease

Food allergies on the rise

Increase in number of cases reported across the world; prevalence rate in India could be 3 per cent

The pros and cons of four wheels

Book>> The Life Of The Automobile: A New History Of The Motor Car •by Steven Parissien • Rs 550

Microbes hold the key

Bacteria could play a crucial role in restoring fertile prairies in North America

Fighting fire with fire

Side effects of a drug can be subdued by using another

Women interrupted

Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline

Winds not favourable

Turbines can increase local temperatures

Carbon suckers

Mangroves store four times more carbon than other forests