Simply Put: Australia's camels

Extreme anomalies

Between January and June 2019 extreme weather events across the world broke the century-mark

Landmarks in the world of weather forecast

Events, inventions and discoveries in weather forecasting

Simply put : Media mirror image

All that happened at UNCCD COP14

The 14th Conference of Parties in New Delhi saw delegates discuss desertification in detail. Here are the discussions they did and decisions they made

Simply put: UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Protecting the environment in times of war

‘We expect to find more interstellar comets in the future’

Nasa scientist Davide Farnocchia, who was one of the first to make observations about the new interstellar comet, speaks to Down To Earth

‘Rejuvenation treatment can delay onset of heart diseases, cancer’

Steve Horvath, a geneticist who was able to reverse nine people’s biological clock recently, spoke to Down To Earth about the study

Pacific heatwave: ‘More research needed to find what causes this’

Down To Earth speaks to marine heatwave experts Nicholas Bond about the high sea surface temperature anomaly in the Pacific and its significance

US biologist found dead during Crete conference, police suspect homicide

Suzanne Eaton was working as a developmental biologist at Germany’s Max Planck institutes

Five countries had zero malaria cases in 2018: WHO

While China and El Salvador reported no cases for second consecutive year; Iran, Malaysia & Timor-Leste had zero cases of the …

MIT researchers explore physics of evaporation

More than temperature, it's changes in pressure that influence how quickly liquid turns into gas

El Salvador recognises forests as living entities

The central American country has lost about 85 per cent of its native forests since the 1960s

Feathers came 100 million years before birds: Study

The structures formed 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period not for display or flight, but purely for insulation

Meeting Paris climate goals can save lives. Here's proof

Paris Agreement, which aims to curbing emissions well below 2°C, can prevent 110 to 2,720 annual heat-related deaths in 15 US cities

Poor air quality can affect pregnancy, raise death risk

High level of pollutants in air is responsible for one of every nine global deaths, totaling over seven million premature deaths a year, …

Vital roles bees and other pollinators play in food chain

Pollination contributes to one-third of the world’s agricultural crops production, says Food and Agriculture Organization

Space Race 2.0: Littered backyard

There have been about 70 anti-satellite missile missions by four countries, but only a few have been catalogued for creating debris

World Earth Day: Colonialism’s role in the overexploitation of natural resources

Colonialists saw “new” territories as places with unlimited resources to exploit, with little consideration for the long-term impacts

Why women in economics have little to celebrate

Twenty five years ago around half of the students studying Year 12 economics were female. Today it is only a third.

Simply Put: Increasing desertification

Researchers find new carbohydrate in barley

Research in Australian varsity shows the polysaccharide occurs due to biosynthesis

Virginity not a scientific term, but a social construct: UN

In a move to end gender-based discrimination and violence, UN agencies have called for a world-wide ban on virginity testing

IPCC Special Report: Climate risks require India to rethink its approach

The report warns of increased risk of coastal flooding, heatwaves, food scarcity and vector-borne diseases