Taming the variant

Predicting soil erosion

SHOCKING SHELL

Listen to what the brain whispers

Silent Trigger

Solar heating of the atmosphere causes landslides

Europe is ancient

Sense the charged air

Radioactive material can be pinpointed remotely

Fear factor

Grasshoppers, like humans, indulge in emotional eating

Energy’s new face

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Traced, scanned, illuminated

Fear of invasive tests leads to a novel way of cancer detection  

Pentagon okays sites

Fitting in

Fish evolved to adapt to their swimming environments  

Map trap

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China loses its patent

Human’s best friend originated from a wolf in West Asia  

Alabama ruling frozen embryos are equivalent to living children has worrying implications for IVF

The judgement that in Australia only one embryo is transferred & none frozen is demonstrably false

Countries commit to tackling non-communicable diseases

A UN declaration, which was signed by several heads of states, asks food manufacturers to reduce salt, free sugars and saturated and industrially …

‘Wait and see’ is an unsatisfying – but accurate – way to present election results

Perhaps news organisations and the public could wait for those charged with the counting to do the counting

UNCCD COP14: Experts stress the need to assess long-term drought impacts

World Bank, Water Global Practices release framework to assess benefits of proactive action vis-à-vis drought

Global climate finance flows for 2015-16 increased by 17%: UN report

The report highlights that a large part of climate finance continues to go towards efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions

Why not all urban foxes deserve their ‘bin-raiding’ reputation

Foxes are ecologically important to urban green spaces, so people need to find ways of living amicably alongside them

The world should start accepting Haitian refugees: Aprajita Kashyap

Down To Earth speaks to academician from Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Canadian, US & Latin American Studies on the …

Cuetlaxochitl: The story of America’s Christmas Eve shrub has lessons for free trade, patents  

Poinsettia can be an example of intellectual property rights or biopiracy; it depends on whose interests one wants to nourish and protect: the …

Life of Plastic: Talks on global treaty to end plastic pollution begin in Uruguay

Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Science and Environment had released a report November 22 in the run-up to the Uruguay meeting

COP27 diary (November 12): ‘US won't support legal structures for loss and damage liabilities’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit 

Over 10,000 to attend UN biodiversity convention next month

Clear mandates needed from delegates for a biodiversity framework that is strong and yet implementable