Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (July 8 – July 14)

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

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (July 1 – July 7)

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

A new generation

Radio>> Politics • North Darfur

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Living in threat

Book Launch>>MEMOIR • Pakistan

Babies as trophies

TV>> Talk Show • Pakistan

Haunting past

Report>> Indigenous Communities • Brazil

From the blurbs

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Handloom is haute

At home in a cave

Mother's little helper

Chidambaram soft on Salwa Judum

Water Doctors

BOOK>> HEART OF DRYNESS • by James Workman, Walker and Company • US $25

Stop calling activists Maoists: SC

How is India’s population ageing? Evidence from LASI

An integrative approach to align the needs of elderly as well as older adults in programmes and policies is the need of hour

How India remains poor: Nine billionaires own as much as half the people

India protests against rising Inequality

Come together, non-profit tells international community, as Bolsonaro takes charge

Amazon Watch adds voice to Brazil’s national indigenous movement that is mounting resistance to the far-right politician

500-year-old horn container discovered in South Africa sheds light on pre-colonial Khoisan medicines

For the Khoi and San people, not all medicines were meant to treat physiological illnesses. Healers were specialised individuals whose task was …

Can Montreal help communities: COP15 negotiators have their work cut out; here is how   

Developed countries are expected to oppose their developing counterparts; but change is imperative  

Our Coal, Our Right: Here is why these Chhattisgarh tribals stage a ‘coal satyagraha’ every October 2

Tribals from four blocks collect and auction coal on Gandhi Jayanti annually, in defiance of government rules

Net gains as language barriers fall in global trade

All corners of the planet are en route to better internet access, helping send the traditional language barriers plaguing global trade tumbling

African court orders Kenya to pay $1.3 million as reparations to indigenous Ogiek people

The government will also formally recognise the Ogiek, one of the most marginalised groups, as an indigenous people of Kenya

COVID-19 warriors: How Assam’s Mishings brought agroforestry back into practice

A village in Assam escapes unemployment and food scarcity by reviving an ancient food forestry practice

Indigenous peoples sue Ecuador govt, oil firms over spill

On April 7, 2 oil pipelines had spilled 15,000 barrels of crude oil into 2 of Ecuador's most important rivers