Reduced greenhouse gas emissions to impact profits

a new report will help people take informed decisions about investing in the automobile sector. It includes details of how efforts to restrict …

Twin Pistons

A clean environment always makes for good economics

Net gain

Villagers around Tawa reservoir in Madhya Pradesh are finally allowed to retain fishing rights

Households top Irish dioxin emitters' list

Better paranoid

Than regret loss that happens in millions

Appalling ability

What makes a species invasive?

Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

Carry the burden

Of your waste, the government needs to tell the plastic industry. Other countries have done so. At times, to developing nations' detriment. …

"Serious study has not yet begun"

R Uma Shankar, Department of Crop Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, speaks to Down To Earth

"We need to be more proactive"

Dr. S. Ramani, senior scientist (Agricultural Entomology), Project Directorate of Biological Control (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), …

"Biological control is the way out"

Dr. R D Gautam, principal scientist and in-charge of the Plant Health Clinic, speaks to Down To Earth

Once poachers now guards

At Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve, deepa kozhisseri finds local tribal communities happily involved in forest protection and ecotourism

Here is how PC Mahalanobis dabbled with computing in the early 20th century

The founder of the discipline of statistics in India also had a pioneering role to play in nurturing another branch of science

Plunging reservoir levels across India a worrying sign

The water level in 91 major reservoirs across the country as on April 13 stood at just 35.839 billion cubic metres as against 253.388 

Stressed out

Few studies on hypertension, but doctors say it is rising

Fall of the paragon

Century-old teak plantation business loses ground in India because of poor management and short-sighted policies

Looking for the right bait

Developing countries like India need to be prepared for multilateral negotiations. This is certainly true of the fishing economy

Invasive Alien Species

Think of an invasion, and the picture that comes to mind is usually that of planes and tanks, machines and men, shells and gunshots. But animal …

Pestering the glands

Study says women exposed to pesticides have impaired thyroid gland function

Regulation faces a hurdle

What has improved engine technology to do with it?

Swamped

The convoluted laws of the country fail to tackle the menace caused by the exponentially growing and powerful plastic industry in India

Indian kids under the grip of type-1 diabetes

World Diabetes Atlas 2015 highlighted that more than 70,000 children are affected by type-1 diabetes in India

Barriers under pestle

There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use

Auto Fool Policy

The Auto Fuel Policy makes a mockery of Delhi's pollution crisis by proposing a pedestrian roadmap. Live and die with pollution. You deserve …