India home to largest number of opiate users: UN report on drugs
Globally, 209 million consume cannabis, 61 million take opiods, 34 million use amphetamines, 21 million cocaine and 20 million use ecstasy &…
Test of localisation for first globalised generation
Arguably, the world’s young population has grown up in a free market world without even knowing the existence of something called ‘…
Socially isolated people have differently wired brains and poorer cognition – new research
Health authorities should do more to check on who is isolated and arrange social activities to help them
Reset to restore
As the world meets to discuss the next decade of biodiversity conservation, lessons from the past will be critical
Nigeria has just hiked interest rates: Why it’s the wrong recipe for curbing inflation
Hike would lead to an increase in the value of the Naira through what’s called “Carry Trade”
Climate change denial: ExxonMobil may face trial
Massachusetts High Court case accuses fossil fuel major of decieving investors, breaking laws
Stress signs for water
Three of the world’s top five groundwater-extracting countries are in Asia, with India leading the list. At least 10 states in the country …
Ukraine: what will end the war? Here’s what research says
What can trigger a war? Which of those factors are relevant in the current scenario?
Climate change has already hit southern Africa. Here’s how we know
By identifying trends in the frequency of weather events happening and its intensity over a period of decades and exploring changes in related …
My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics — here’s how his research on complex systems changed science
I am pleasantly surprised that the field of complex systems, which is quietly pushing at the frontier of theoretical research in physics, has …
BHP’s offloading of oil and gas assets shows the global market has turned on fossil fuels
BHP, which was founded in 1885 and plans to be around for the long term, has seen the writing on the wall. It is getting out while it can
Make trade work for climate
EU’s carbon border tax won’t take us towards a cooperative world required to combat climate change
Can thunderstorms tell us more about climate change
Scientists spot correlation between storms in US Southern Great Plains and variations in climate
Forests under indigenous people more protected, says new report
Indigenous and tribal peoples play vital roles in global and regional climate action and in fighting poverty
Investors are increasingly shunning mining companies that violate human rights
A growing body of research suggests that investors care about human rights impacts and consultation with Indigenous communities
The role of bias in how women are treated during childbirth: a Kenyan case study
Around 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth
Wishing for a Jonas Salk in the age of COVID-19
The philosophy of the virologist who developed the vaccine for polio is clearly anathema to today’s drug researchers
Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer
There were no cases of severe COVID-19 in those who received the vaccine. And it seems to generate a protective immune response in older people
Keep calm, but don’t just carry on: how to deal with China’s mass surveillance of thousands of Australians
Australia needs to adopt recommendations by law reform inquiries and establish a national right to privacy
Coronavirus update: A million cases in India and counting
Record number of cases for the third day in a row Only US, Brazil have a higher tally India’s testing rate 2nd-lowest among countries …
COVID-19: Should we really bet on hydroxychloroquine
British Medical Journal has questioned the logic of using hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
COVID-19 emerged due to forest destruction: indigenous leaders
Protecting indigenous and forest rights could also help to find treatments for such diseases, they said
Coronavirus: 'Difficult to talk of trajectory but should die down by May'
Down To Earth interviewed Eric Feigl-Ding, epidemiologist with Harvard Chan School of Public Health, on the ongoing coronavirus outbreak
Adani Carmichael coal: Do we need it or not?
If we are ramping up coal production abroad at a time when the IPCC and UN say it should drop, we should know what we are getting into
The UN Production Gap report clarifies the need for fossil fuel non-proliferation
Its assessment of energy trends is far more responsible than the International Energy Agency’s