IMD predicts a scorching summer for 2024
People may not get much respite from the heat even during the nights, predicts agency
Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act 2023: States, UTs must act as per definition in TN Godavarman judgement, says SC
Apex court was hearing a PIL challenging constitutionality of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act, 2023
Patanjali product ban: Celebrities, influencers equally responsible for misleading advertisements
The new Supreme Court ruling is a much-needed one to keep influencers’ social accountability in check while ensuring that consumers get the …
Can poor urban planning be held responsible for emergence of congested and unplanned urbanisation?
Formal urban planning must not be reduced to a mere water utilities sectoral planning and forecasting approach
Neocolonial Raj has taken root in India
Inequality has been widening rapidly in the country since the 1990s
Tigers in the Terai’s sugarcane fields are developing into an ecotype of their own: Rahul Shukla
Down To Earth speaks to conservationist who has documented and written about tigers growing up and surviving in the Terai landscape of northern India
Women, youth incur higher farm income losses due to heat stress, floods: FAO report
This happens because their capacity to react and adapt to extreme weather events is unequal
44 million women, 26 million men in India were obese in 2022: The Lancet
Obesity rates in country increased to 9.8% in 2022 from 1.2% in 1990 for women and to 5.4% for men from 0.5% 32 years ago
We find several connections of sound to the environment: Radha Kapuria
Down To Earth speaks to Durham University academic and author about the influence of the environment on music, visual and the performing arts
Severe cold kills five in 24 hours in Bihar, including two kids
Doctors report uptick in heart attack, brain stroke cases in three government hospitals
How did Venezuela’s Humboldt glacier shrink to an ice field?
The Humboldt glacier has shrunk to an area of less than 2 hectares, leading to the downgrade in classification
Whooping cough outbreak reported around the world
Weakening of DTP vaccine’s long-term effects, outdoor air pollution and bacterial mutation being pointed out as plausible reasons for outbreak
Simply Put: To eat or not to eat
Vanishing wells of Marathwada: Farmers report water table dropped to 300 metres in 30 years
As trips to fetch water from tankers get longer, expert says dire situation result of poor water management
Extreme heat affects Indian women more than men; analysis finds spike in deaths due to high heat since 2005
For women, the percentage change in mortality rate increased by 4.63% in 2000 to 2010 and 9.84% between 2010 and 2019
‘We are seeing a sign that dark energy is not a cosmological constant’
Shadab Alam, faculty at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, on deviations observed with …
Simply Put: Hasdeo selfie point
Book Excerpt: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s role in the history of India’s craft renaissance
Freedom fighter & social reformer’s belief in crafts was multifaceted in nature: A way to support women’s advancement & …
DTE Special on International Women’s Day 2024
Down To Earth delves into 7 exemplary initiatives to illustrate formidable influence of self-help groups
As told to Parliament (February 6, 2024): India accounted for 65.3% of estimated malaria cases in Southeast Asia in 2022
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Prolonged cold, fog spell in Bihar hits Rabi crops, but wheat yield may benefit
Farmers report damage to potato, mustard and lentil crops, wheat unaffected
Why are farmers in Haryana leaving their fields vacant?
Excessive cropping of paddy has completely depleted groundwater in some places; in others, there is the problem of waterlogging
Why air pollution is a threat to India’s economic and social well-being
It is affecting the health of the country’s future, its children
No food in forests: Artificial greening of jungles equivalent to farming in wilderness for herbivores, says expert
India needs a single comprehensive law, nodal agency to deal with invasive species
Water levels in dams on Himachal rivers decline to half of their capacity
The state, ravaged by floods in 2023, has been suffering a long dry spell this winter because of the lack of rain and snow in the last three months