Drinking problem

Bird-like dinosaurs challenge evolutionary trend

From the blurbs

China records first human death from H3N8 bird flu

China alerted WHO 24 days after the woman was hospitalised & 11 days after her death, against the mandated 24 hours

China has waived the debt of some African countries. But it’s not about refinancing

The political significance of the move is likely to be greater than its financial impact

‘Chinese food is so entrenched in our lives; COVID-19 can’t change that’

Down To Earth talks to Miranda Brown, historian of premodern Chinese food and medicine and University of Michigan professor, about Chinese …

How 6 fast-growing Asian countries consume plastic packaging

New report on China, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia

237 million people in 6 Asian countries at risk due to coastal flooding by 2050: Study

In India, six times more people are at risk from coastal flooding than the earlier estimates based on satellite data from NASA

Asia witnessed 63 per cent jump in e-waste generation in five years

A UN study revealed that most of these countries lack the infrastructure to recycle e-waste safely and cleanly

Large-scale hunting pushes yellow-breasted Bunting towards extinction

Known in Chinese as the ‘rice bird’, the Bunting is considered a delicacy in China and Cambodia

A safety valve!

Alarmed by super rapid industrialisation in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank suggests urgent corporate 'voluntary' action and …

The file drawer bust

Daniele Fanelli, researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, probes the problem of quantity versus quality in scientific research. …

Solace in money plant

Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America

Warming China: Shanghai, other cities in Yangtze Basin issue red alerts

Shanghai has issued three red alerts in the past five days

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (February 3 – 9, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Indicator of doom

Ecosystems undergo dramatic fluctuations just before collapse

India, China join hands

Harnessing the sun

A home of its own

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Supermagnetic stars

Scientists discover stars with magnetic fields some million billion times that of the Earth

Big dams, more displacement

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