Vedanta exploration sanction: Is ONGC meeting Tripura’s natural gas needs?

While there’s a lot of noise over the private firm being allowed an exploration block, let’s find out if the state-owned firm is …

SAARC ratifies committee on environment

The ad hoc South Asian technical committee for environmental reforms is accorded permanent status

Substituting natural gas for diesel

Buses in the northern and western parts of the country may soon run on a mixture of diesel and natural gas

Taking stock

More than 150 nations gather to assess the damage from mounting ecological and social catastrophes

A Nobel profession

From war-torn countries to nations suffering constantly from natural calamities, Medcins Sans Frontires, also known as Doctors Without Borders, …

Threat of mega quake looms large in Bangladesh

With the southeastern parts of Bangladesh experiencing a number of mild-to-moderate tremors since July 27, it is feared that a major earthquake …

At least 9 dead, hundreds injured in Taiwan's strongest earthquake since 1999

The earthquake was the most powerful to hit the island in 25 years

5.9 magnitude earthquake strikes seismically active North Central China

Over 100 have died due to the earthquakes 

Tonga volcanic eruption altered Pacific seafloor’s shape

Volcano’s crater is now 700 metres deeper than it was before the blast

Floods, landslides devastate Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona

Hurricane Fiona completely disrupted the island’s water supply and power network

Deadly flash floods sweep across Europe

More than 100 people have died and nearly 1,300 are missing.

Chamoli disaster factsheet: Why was it a snowball effect

Social media videos can unravel reason behind a giant tsunami

Researchers use 38 such videos of the tsunami to reconstruct Indonesia earthquake

‘Every flood in Nepal causes deluge in India’

Narayan Gyawali, program director with Lutheran World Relief that’s working in Nepal, speaks to Down To Earth about trans-boundary floods …

Drought politics

U R Ananthamurthy's iconic classic about the struggle of an idealistic civil servant trapped in a highly political environment has greater …

The global push to criminalise 'ecocide'

While causing damage to the environment is already a crime in most countries, recognition of ecocide elevates the most abominable cases to a crime

‘Super cyclone’ Mocha makes landfall in Myanmar and Bangladesh

The intensity, spread and ferocity of Mocha may match the catastrophic potential of extremely severe cyclonic storm Nargis

How floods in Assam link to child trafficking

Flood is one such phenomenon that exacerbates poverty and potentially causes situations of conflict and instability

Erratic, incessant rainfall brings floods to many states in India

Heavy monsoon rainfall intensified by depression is the main reason behind the natural disaster

Man-made earthquakes triggered by fracking, dams are not localised: Study

It was until now believed that such disturbances are limited to an area near the site of injection.  

Droughts: misery in slow motion

Successive droughts and water scarcity are causing long-term harm in ways that are poorly understood and inadequately acknowledged

Making cheaper gas

Echoing the soul of rural India

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Control move

Nio wrecks the US