Why can't Indians access maps for 43 per cent of their country?

How is it that you can buy a map of India in Paris with details as fine as the location of all tyre puncture shops in Delhi (updated every six …

30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water

Western Orissa is witnessing an upheaval. In the eye of the storm is the Hirakud dam. Over 300,000 farmers dependent on its water for irrigation …

‘Ancient and Medieval maps were very inaccurate’

Briton Susan Gole is a collector and historian of maps, especially those of India. She has published various books on the subject. She is also …

Prolific movements

Researchers prove that movements in the Earth's crust are largely responsible for the uneven distribution of global biological diversity

India a mercury hotspot

At a time when most countries are phasing out mercury, India has donned the dubious mantle of the world's toxic capital. Its import of elemental …

Ground reality

As the water crisis surfaces yet again, illegal borewells spring up in and around Delhi. Binayak Das and Suresh Babu on a plummeting water table …

How water flows across continents

Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created graphic maps of watersheds across the world. His works can be found here.

The dark zone

When Down To Earth correspondents nidhi jamwal and d b manisha started filing their reports on the problem of fluoride and arsenic in groundwater,…

Use these maps to see how dams are destroying rivers across the world

The interative created by a non-profit illustrates shows decades of dam-building has put river basins like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Amazon and …

150 years of global temperature data now on Google Earth

Database uses information from 6,000 stations and is expected to make climate-change data more accessible and transparent

Misrepresenting maps

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Access to drinking water, sanitation in Africa

Underestimated threat

Plague hot spots in Latin America

Global inventory of bird flu strains

Unintended victims

How far species would have to migrate by the end of the 21st century

New black age across the Arctic

Who will benefit most by climate change adaptation measures?

Annual precipitation with and without ocean conveyor belt

Forests lost and gained

Cooperatively breeding birds and brood parasites: correlated distribution

Tracking source of rabies virus in Nepal

Top contributors to global warming

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