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Life expectancy in India will be 71 by the year 2025, says the latest World Health Report

The road ahead

Water woes

City shock

Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment

Suraj: Eighth cheetah dies at Kuno National Park

Injury marks found on neck and back of the wild cat  

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

The goal of family planning programmes is not to hit population targets but to empower women so they can choose the number of children they will …

Will Africa meet its sanitation target?

African countries, although serious about safe and total sanitation, are likely to miss Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

Cheetahs in Kuno next week: Leopard attacks, poaching, stress of capture remain concerns

Those in charge of the cheetah project told DTE that they had factored in concerns for the reintroduced species  

Turmeric soaps pave way for financial independence of Koraput’s tribal women

Around 1,2000 tribal women in the area have managed to eke out a living making turmeric soaps

Cheetah reintroduction project comes up at CMS CoP 13

The Supreme Court cleared way for reintroduction of species in India on January 28, 2020

Why this abandoned village is a threat to Uttarakhand

People are abandoning their villages despite high economic growth, leaving behind few, who find it difficult to continue farming without …

At 130, India ranks one among lowest in Human Development Index

A report that assesses 188 countries urges to improve working conditions for people involved in unpaid labour

Smokescreen

The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes

Keeper of the nation's water kitty

MADHAV Chitale, former secretary in the ministry of water resources, is a recipient of The Stockholm Water Award, given by the Stockholm Water …

Give native knowledge its due place

2023 in a blink: 10 top wildlife stories of the year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2023

World Cheetah Day 2022: Social media fuels illegal trade in the species

World lacks environmental awareness, resources to stop the menace

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Living on the edge

Eight months since Project Cheetah began, 3 of the animals are already dead

A third cheetah, ‘Daksha’, died on May 9; officials claim the death occurred during mating

Can unmarked individuals of a species inhabiting rugged terrain be estimated? Study on Asiatic Black Bears shows how

The model can be replicated in mountainous landscapes with minimal sampling bias, ease of sampling and robust density estimation, the researchers say