The world the slaves built

After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so

Deep sea dibs

When it comes to the worm, the crab is always early  

Timely preservation

Tale of two reptiles

Fossils of an ancient snake wrapped around a dinosaur enraptures scientists

Days of the dino

A priest-scientist to artists, dinosaurs have had their popularizers  

Half of the world’s richest biodiversity zones unprotected: UN study

Fast progress needed on targets for protected areas especially marine areas, it adds

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World AIDS Day: Communities can lead way to ending public health threat, says UNAIDS

Suggests integrating, elevating and engaging communities at all stages of HIV-related decision-making

This year will be warmest in more than 170 years, WMO confirms in report launched at COP28

Libya Medicane, Cyclone Freddy, accelerating Antarctic sea ice loss and rising sea levels caused as due to intense warming in first 10 months of 2023

SDG Summit 2023: Political declaration for massive increase in investments to attain SDGs adopted

Leaders recommitted to full implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Renewable energy estimated to attract 70% global energy investment in 2021: IEA

Coal is down but not out

Race to procure COVID-19 vaccine doses: Where do countries stand?

India has confirmed the maximum number of doses at 1.6 billion

Global Eco Watch: Pregnant Gaur killed in Kerala; 6 held

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

A possible Indo-US trade agreement would be an imperialist attack on India’s farmers

Such a deal will have repercussions on our agricultural production and economy

What's critical at Durban: removing the firewall between developing and developed countries

Equity Watch

Americans not very different from their president

The US citizens are more concerned with cost than action to arrest climate change

Should fat cats guard the cream?

Industrialised countries want to monitor their own compliance to the Kyoto Protocol.

Cheers Chiraq!

The French President calls for equity

Equity Primer

A look at why equity is so important at the climate negotiations

Cost of importing food is expected to rise 6% in 2017

The global food import bill is rising despite robust output in 2017, says UN

Talks begin in Australia for creating two Antarctic marine sanctuaries

Proposals for creating the protected areas have been pending for five years

Asian cities to be worst hit by climate change

Governments are finding it difficult to cope with the swelling population

UN Climate Summit 2014 pledges to end forest loss by 2030

Governments, MNCs, civil society agree to cut the rate of forest loss to half by 2020

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