WEEKEND

DEEP DIVE

Seeds from the past

Shagun travels to Odisha to document villages conserving & growing climate-resilient rice & millets

REWIND

38 years of Chernobyl

Pripyat, the river of Chernobyl, dredged to connect the Black & Baltic Seas

IN CONVERSATION

Planting trees can cause global warming too

Scientist Susan Cook-Patton talks to Preetha Banerjee on albedo change due to restoring tree cover

REVIEW

The chronicles of Sundarbans

CARTOON

DATA CENTRE

VIDEO

Elections in the heat

Gobar Times

Wildlife & Biodiversity

'We could discover new bird species in the eastern Himalayas'

'We could discover new bird species in the eastern Himalayas'

Trevor Price has been studying birds in India since 1972, investigating breeding biology …

YOUNG

The trial of a bat

Bats are more than mere virus carriers; As pollinators, they play a key role in ensuring …

Economy

Simply Put: Riding COVID-19 lockdown

YOUNG

Let's be water-wise

While there is no escape from washing hands regularly, we can definitely be more mindful of …

Photo Gallery

YOUNG

Days of COVID-19 confinement: How school-goers are dealing with lockdown

Nearly 90% of the world’s children are reportedly confined at their homes due to the novel coronavirus disease pandemic. Gobar Times asked some of them to share their lockdown experiences:

YOUNG

Lockdown no bar for the young artist

Pen, paper, paintbrush and lots of colours! Beating the gloom of the lockdown through art, these young artists have decided to spread hope and love in the world through their paintings, posters and doodles. Here's a look

The world has gone into a lockdown ever since the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) broke out last December. As humans have been forced into confinement in their homes, wild animals have been seen entering human habitations, even big cities. Like the f

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Earth Day 2020: Wildlife runs wild amid COVID-19

With humans across the world cooped up in their homes due to COVID-19, wild animals have made appearances in human-dominated areas

Typhoon Ambo increases challenges for Philippines during COVID-19

Natural Disasters

Typhoon Ambo increases challenges for Philippines during COVID-19

Typhoon Vongfong, known locally as Ambo, made landfall in the Philippines on May 14, 2020, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people during a lockdown over the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

How damaging Cyclone Amphan was for the Sundarbans

Natural Disasters

How damaging Cyclone Amphan was for the Sundarbans

Cyclone Amphan caused major damage across south Bengal, including the Sundarbans and across the Odisha coast on May 20, 2020. Communication infrastructure, including telephone networks, were damaged in the Sundarbans.

DTE In Print

Health

COVID-19: The novel pandemic may extract a heavy human cost

A worker in mask cleans a train amid the novel coronavirus outbreak in India. Photo: Reuters

It was foretold, but we never believed that a crumbling infrastructure in the wealthy world …

Health

COVID-19: This is why we have a pandemic

Globalisation is punishing everybody for somebody else’s unpreparedness. The COVID-19 …

Governance

Delhi elections: Populism’s twin faces

An AAP election campaign. Photo: Joyjeet Das

In the Delhi elections, the Aam Aadmi Party may have benefitted from strategic voting by …