An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth’s ecosystems than we knew
They are likely to play increasingly important roles as vascular plants decline under predicted hotter, drier & more variable global climates
IPBES9 assessment reports: Conservation vs use vs sustainable use?
Global body grapples with the question of how biodiversity can be used sustainably and ensuring social justice
World Health Assembly to adopt resolution to strengthen preparedness for health emergencies
The resolution urges WHO members to increase domestic investment and ensure public funding for health emergency preparedness
SC issues notices to Centre, states to check illegal sand mining
National Legal Services Authority, the petitioner, says rampant sand mining is devastating rivers in the absence of guidelines
Activists reject Parliament panels's food security bill recommendations
Demand comprehensive legislation for food security and nutrition of all, including vulnerable groups
A tab on wishlist
As firms explore applications for Indian consumers, the country is set to drive budget tablet market
How a restoration project in Karnataka is helping revive ecology, community livelihood
Restoration projects can set in motion a virtuous cycle of livelihoods, biodiversity and native knowledge
UN considers payments for forest ecosystem services
This will help create sustainable livelihoods and resilient ecosystems, says a report by three UN agencies
India can dramatically reduce stunting in children, says World Bank report
Just 1 per cent of children in the country receive adequate food, healthcare and environmental health that are required for normal growth
South Africa aims to speed up service delivery to all citizens
Country’s 20 year review shows jump in access to sanitation and water services between 1994 and 2014
0.85 million viruses in birds and mammals can infect people: IPBES paper
Land use change is prime trigger for COVID-19 pandemic and responsible for 30 per cent of new diseases since 1960, it adds
Worldwide legal wildlife trade increased by 2,000% since 1980
The trade has become highly unsustainable, a report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …
Union Budget 2019-20: Blue sky thinking hits grey sky limit
New budget gives miss to blue-sky mission. Offers only a few sectoral hooks in transport and energy to nudge clean air action
Last mile smile
Communities are coming together in Jharkhand to create vigilance mechanisms to enforce food entitlement programmes
Why we need to factor ecosystem services into economic development planning
The multiplier effects of healthy forest cover are enormous in terms of economic, social development objectives
Countries don’t report disease outbreaks soon enough: WHO chief Ghebreyesus
United Nations health organisation report on IHR implementation tabled in the 73rd World Health Assembly paints a mixed picture
Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job
Local bodies and activists in Bengaluru, Pune are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment
Agartala to be first LED-illuminated city in northeastern India
Switch to LED-based street lighting is expected to save city corporation at least Rs 2 crore
State of malnourished children
CAG’s latest report blames poor management of anganwadis in Gujarat for the problem
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 7, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Bridging the gap
Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has …
Child labour: When do we start to rewrite their story
The day people really start believing that there can be no reason that justifies child labour, not even poverty — is the day the real …
Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year
Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human …
Bihar initiates PPP model cancer treatment
Modern oncology centre with all treatment and diagnosis facilities envisaged in Patna Medical College in first phase