Tracking locust attack: Cotton crop spread over 700 hectares destroyed in Bikaner

Farmers in a dilemma with no income to pay for living expenses as well as debt

Ancient fossil throws light on earliest migrants from Africa

Humans might have interbred with Neanderthals

North India Deluge 2023: Lahaul-Spiti’s cold desert receives a third of seasonal rain in a day

A village in the district has also received snow in July, a highly unusual phenomenon

Wet regions may behave like drylands: Study blames heatwaves, droughts

Europe, US might see desert-like changes due to current heatwaves, authors suggest

Thar desert faces threat

Coming of a desert

Rajasthan Locust Attack: Both state, Centre need to shed complacency

Between 1993 and 2020, the governments hardly invested in locust control departments

World’s largest solar plant opens in California

The plant will generate enough electricity to power 160,000 homes

World’s biggest solar power project becomes operational in US

Ivanpah produces 392 MW power; avoids emissions of 400,000 tonnes of CO2

Solar energy from North Africa could light up UK homes by 2018

Electricity to be transported from Sahara desert to Europe via undersea cable

Should villages in Desert National Park be relocated?

India desertified

Map of India to change soon. Courtesy: climate change

Global Eco Watch: Reindeer may have been domesticated 2,000 years ago

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

Biodiversity buffer

It can protect dryland from withering due to climate change

Sweet beris of Thar

Residents dig shallow wells to tap sweet water reserves

Desert dust storms carry human-made toxic pollutants and the health risk extends indoors

Deserts now increasingly border built structures around the world, including urban dwellings

C: Green planet

Will the world move towards a more fair and environmentally just future?

Killing dust

African dust clouds cause red tides that kill millions of fish in the Gulf of Mexico

Bihar govt teams carrying out operations against locust swarms

The insects have spread to 11 districts of the state in the past four days

Costly silence

No one is debating where goats will graze

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Climate opportunity: How did Rajasthan harvest rainwater after the early monsoon of 2023?

The rains of May and June 2023 broke records of the last 100 years for western Rajasthan districts. The villagers turned this havoc of rain into …

Ladakh’s arid winter: Cold desert will face short- & long-term repercussions, warn experts

Apricots have blossomed & insects seen in peak winter; the Zojila is motorable even as the Chader Trek has started later this year

The 21st century lore of Atacama

A never before weather experience in Atacama Desert in Chile in 2017 was not a freak development, but part of a planetary level change sweeping …