`Indian Ocean has been the central theatre of human existence'
Economist, environmentalist, urban theorist, Sanjeev Sanyal wears many hats. He has written four bestselling books on Indian political history …
10 years since St Petersburg Declaration, hopes for doubling tiger numbers dim
Instead one-third of tiger conservation sites in the world are severely at risk of losing their wild tigers
Disasters, conflicts triggered 5 mln displacements in India in 2019
India's tally highest among 33 mln globally
Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhino dies
Tam died on the afternoon of May 27 local time of old age illnesses
India at high risk to a little-known disease, says an Oxford study
Melioidosis is caused by a highly pathogenic bacterium and currently has no vaccine
China is financing infrastructure projects around the world – many could harm nature and Indigenous communities
China has an opportunity with the Belt and Road Initiative to improve infrastructure networks around the world in a way that is both sustainable …
Why coal-fired power plants in Southeast Asia are facing opposition heat
Growing social and environmental opposition has delayed coal projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar
Southeast Asia’s mangroves under threat due to land conversion for cultivation
Study says expansion of rice agriculture in Myanmar and conversion of mangroves for oil palm plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia are leading to …
Book Excerpt: The Peepal, a tree sacred to Hindus, Buddhists and Jains of the Subcontinent
The peepal is native to India and other countries of south and southeast Asia; its cultural importance is immense in these areas, writes V Sundararaju
Mocha: Most models predict storm will strike Myanmar. Is the country prepared?
The country’s last major cyclone, Nargis in 2008, claimed over 84,000 lives
What does Sustainable Development mean in an unequal world?
Reflections from the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development
Book Excerpt: India ignored its aqua ‘geography of histories’, favouring the terra
For a great many people even today, the sea is a very distant object
Jakarta acts to stop being the next Atlantis
Stopping Jakarta sinking cannot happen overnight, but the city is finally taking the action needed to stop groundwater extraction
Micro snail species discovered in Meghalaya’s Mawsmai cave
The last time a species of the Georissa genus was discovered in India was 170 years ago in 1851
Ungulate thought to be extinct re-discovered in Vietnam
The silver-backed chevrotain is neither a rodent nor a cervid but is, in fact, the world's smallest hoofed animal
Blame Stamford Raffles: How the British ended the Malayan tiger’s reign over Singapore
Island has lost 37% of its biodiversity in the 200 years since it was first colonised, says new study; this includes the Malayan tiger
Brazzaville Summit of the Three Basins needs to find ways to protect world’s tropical forests
Tropical forests face threat from fossil fuel, mining and extractive industry expansion
New study shows over a third of protected areas in Asia are severely at risk of losing tigers
Southeast Asia more likely to lose tigers than South or East Asia, it says
Southeast Asia’s energy demand to grow by 80 per cent in 2040: IEA
The share of fossil fuels in the region’s energy mix will rise to 78 per cent
First case of Lumpy Skin Disease documented in Cambodian wild bovids: Study
A male banteng or wild cattle was discovered with signs of the disease in September 2021 and died soon after; case highlights danger to wild …
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2023: The Orang Asli use traditional knowledge to save Malayan tigers
Down To Earth spoke to Phung Chee Chean, Kenyir Project Problem Analyst for Panthera, on the Orang Asli protectors of Malaysia’s last tigers
Unsafe WASH behind 395,000 deaths of children under 5 in 2019: WHO report
Most WASH-attributable deaths were reported from the WHO African and South-East Asia regions
Climate crisis may destroy aquatic food systems — and livelihoods, economies
Much of Africa, South and Southeast Asia as well as the Indo-Pacific under high to very high risk under high-emissions, no-mitigation …
Mekong's water levels fall as new Laos dam begins operations
The water levels in Southeast Asia’s great river have fallen to their lowest in 100 years
Electricity deficit can place EU-Vietnam trade agreement at risk
Ensuring clean electricity production to power growth is need of the hour