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Book Excerpt: A guide to the Peninsula’s indigenous floral wealth

Many in southern India are unaware that the region hosted and still hosts unique botanical life

Aerosols increase drought severity over the Indian subcontinent

El Niño weakens the monsoon by transporting aerosols from lower altitudes in East Asian region up and into the higher altitudes, finds a …

Monsoon update: Northeastern states report deficit rainfall

Three weeks into the monsoon, 72% meteorological divisions have had normal and above normal rainfall

Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India

The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …

Meghalaya coal mine mishap: A week on, no sign of trapped miners

Heavy rains, technical snags and unavailability of labour due to COVID-19 lockdown continues to hamper operations 

WATCH : Second COVID-19 wave had profound impact on rural India

Tier-3 and tier-4 districts witnessed a higher increase in deaths during the second wave of COVID-19 compared to the first one  

Summer commences in India, impact on COVID-19 unclear as of now

More data expected in next 2 weeks, especially on the virus, humidity and ultra-violet radiation

India locked down, but challenges remain

As India entered a 21-day lockdown on March 25, 2020 in a bid to contain COVID-19 spread, thousands of daily wage labourers and migrant workers …

Frontline workers set to play key role against COVID-19 in Odisha

State launches massive campaign to engage Anganwadi and ASHA workers to stall virus‘ march

COVID-19: WHO criticises India's blanket travel ban

Such measures in their own right will do nothing to protect individual states, says top WHO official to DTE query

COVID-19: Sex workers face tough time in Odisha’s port town Paradip

They are not being able to find customers among the crews of passing ships because of the fear of disease

Simply Put: How far will Nirmala Sitharaman's longest budget take India?

Down To Earth's Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto decodes the comparatives and superlatives of Union Budget 2020-21

Economic Survey 2019-20: Afforestation under GIM over 126,916 ha

Data for afforestation undertaken under GIM from Parliamentary questions paint different picture though

Not just Indo-Gangetic Plains, severe winter air pollution affects central India too: CSE

Singrauli and Gwalior have the most polluted air in central India, according to a CSE analysis

Why I remember DN Jha as an exemplary food historian

His defining work was about a food item whose reality is markedly different from the narrative that has been built around it

Bamboo shoots: Plants of nutrition and employment

Fermented bamboo shoots are a delicacy in the Northeast. They can also become a viable livelihood activity

Gujarat farmers sow potato seeds registered by PepsiCo, in symbolic protest

The multinational had sued four farmers in April, triggering a controversy that has now been reignited

The ambiguous future of Jharkhand’s Saranda forest

The proposed diversion of 46,000 hectares of virgin forest of Saranda division for mining will destroy the whole forest ecosystem and …

Our Agenda for survival EP2: Rethinking comfort: We should not make air-conditioners a status symbol

Managing our cooling and heating demands is critical to environmental sustainability. Are we doing it right? Sunita Narain explains why we need …

Take note: there is 44% probability of below-normal monsoon this year

Although IMD predicts normal rain in 2018, there is 44 per cent probability of deficient or below normal monsoon

Findings of nationwide rural sanitation survey leave several questions unanswered

The claim that 93.4 per cent of rural households are using toilets is somewhat questionable

Moving from monopoly to competition, Centre opens up coal mining to private sector

The decision will increase competitiveness and allow the use of best possible technology into the sector

Seven defining scientific contributions that impact every Indian

In the past seven decades, India has built satellites, sent probes to the moon and Mars, established nuclear power stations, among many other …

Death by lightning: facts and figures

Lightning has killed 56 in Bihar and 42 in Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours. Here are some numbers that define this leading cause of accidental …