Women’s Day 2024: Ladakh’s looms of life

Changpa women engender an economic turnaround by taking over the trade chain of the world’s most expensive fibre 

How Chhattisgarh’s Baiga tribe secured habitat ownership in the face of eviction threats

State initially tried to ward off petition to grant habitat rights to community by saying there is no ministry-prescribed format

These lethal changes in India’s patent rules

The proposed amendments are a capitulation to Big Pharma and will undermine vital public health safeguards in the law

Every second extreme poor in the world is a child

India has some 52 million children in extreme poverty, according to an assessment by World Bank and UNICEF  

Urban Menace: Humans, pigeons can coexist

Taking steps to reduce pigeon populations will disrupt the natural food chain in cities 

Multi-pronged strategies needed to reduce alcohol addiction in India

The supporters of the argument that alcohol-related tax revenues are essential to help governments do not factor in the colossal loss it incurs …

Illuminating dark seas: Why fisheries management must be more transparent

However, effectiveness should be measured by sustainable and equitable outcomes — not the degree of transparency

Leipzig Transport Summit: Decarbonise now; save on road, rail and airport maintenance, advises report

If it’s done, the transport sector can still reduce its CO2 emissions by about 80% over next 25 years, compared to 2019  

High time to move away from the master plan approach for Indian cities

Initiatives such as GIS-based master & development plans for 500 AMRUT cities are encouraging but we are still far behind

DTE Coverage: Voting without voters

Down To Earth reports from four states on migrant voters and the upcoming Lok Sabha elections

Simply Put: Lok Sabha Polls 2024

Simply Put: Freebies

New Caledonia riot result of ‘stunted decolonisation’, lack of sovereignty for Pacific’s indigenous peoples: Shubhamitra Das

As New Caledonia in the Pacific burns, DTE speaks with Jawaharlal Nehru University academic to inquire more about what has actually led to the rioting

Femicide: many countries around the world are making the killing of women a specific crime — here’s why it’s needed

UN data shows that, on average, five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family

Environment in elections: Drought not on poll agenda even as north Karnataka records 3rd-lowest rainfall in over 100 years

Region’s people feel things can’t remain same even as other parts of Karnataka have no water problems

Great Nicobar Project clearances violate constitutional mandate, views of tribals ignored: Experts write to NCST

Calculation by project developer of the area that will remain protected as tribal reserve 'flawed', they write

People from which Indian states migrate the most? Answers will surprise you

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh have the highest overall migration rate according to a recent ILO report

Humanitarian crisis in Haiti as the Caribbean’s most populous country may have fallen to armed gangs

Capital Port-au-Prince a ‘city under siege’ as US Marines reportedly evacuate embassy staff  

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (January 4, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Manor Din: Arupjyoti Saikia on how the Burmese invasion of Assam transpired

It is a story of court intrigues that took place in the final decade of the 600-year-old Ahom Kingdom, one of India’s greatest polities

Number of daily wage workers dying by suicide increased in 2022: NCRB data

As per the NCRB, 64.3% suicide victims were reported to have an annual income of less than Rs one lakh

Delayed by decades: Centre-state tussle and red tape withhold compensation for land acquisition in Jharkhand’s coal belt

Many of those who were to be compensated, have become destitute

Cities are central to our future — they have the power to make, or break, society’s advances

Far from making the world flat, globalisation has made it spiky

Simply Put: Making way for parliament

Simply Put: Wild humans