Paying the Carbon Price: The Subsidisation of Heavy Polluters Under Emissions Trading Schemes
Paying the Carbon Price analyses the practice of freely allocating permits in Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs)
Exploiting the Wilderness: An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Illegally harvested ivory and endangered plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even insects are easily found for sale throughout East and …
Large businesses; larger emission footprints
Out of 250 largest emitters, India's state-owned company, Coal India, topped the list with largest GHG emission - 2076.2 million tonnes. Besides …
Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity
This book explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.
The dark side of big data
Latest Facebook data breach episode is a reminder that rise of Big Data represents a massive engineering of society with ominous implications for …
Global Carbon Pricing: The Path to Climate Cooperation
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost …
Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave: Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species
This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth.
Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics
Environmentalists are called upon to defend their conservation efforts, yet most lack training in the ethical dimensions of conservation biology …
Talking heads
Agriculture ministers from key African countries speak to Down To Earth on strategies to make Africa food-sufficient once again
International community lauds China's efforts towards greening of Kubuqi Desert
Could the Sahara and Sahel initiative draw lessons from the Kubuqi International Desert Forum?
For environmental rights defenders, 2016 was the deadliest year on record
India emerged the fourth deadliest country in the world for land and environmental rights activists
What makes an animal clever? Research shows intelligence is not just about using tools
Species that use tools aren’t necessarily better at solving problems than species that don’t
Ethiopia curbed open defecation at fastest rate; what can India learn?
Unlike India, Ethiopia has recognised sanitation as a health problem and focused on behavioural change over toilet construction
Forests fire poets' imagination
Forests are vital not only for food and biodiversity, but our energy and creativity also find expression in them
The new '100% effective' Ebola vaccine owes a debt to the scientists who beat smallpox
The final trials of the first effective Ebola vaccine show it's safe to use against an outbreak
Fidel Castro: A champion of public health
Few would dispute the outstanding successes the Cuban healthcare system has achieved since Fidel and his comrades led the country’s …
The US environmental movement needs a new message
Most Americans care about the environment, but they didn't vote that way this year. Two political scientists urge the movement to build better …
Four new elements added to periodic table
These elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 were all synthesised in laboratories
Uncanny truth about germs
Building immunity may be a matter of keeping company with microbes, argue some immunologists
Interrogating sustainable cities
The concept of sustainable cities can be a confused one when it attempts to cater to all interests
Can science explain blue skin of Lord Krishna?
Religion interprets blue skin as the aura of a spiritual body; science considers it a rare genetic disorder
When superstition gets under the skin
In Africa, people living with albinism are perceived as ghosts and live with constant fear of being killed. Down To Earth talks to those who …
Can you really be poisoned by green or sprouting potatoes?
Many people think of potatoes as root vegetables because they grow underground like carrots, parsnips and other root crops. But in actual fact …
America’s first ‘climate refugees’ and a vanishing island
The island, which had over 22,000 acres of land in 1955, has lost about 98 per cent of it due to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and subsidence
Record number of environmental activists killed in 2015
Mining companies, land-grabbers and even state forces have stepped up attacks against activists and indigenous people standing up for their right …