Coronavirus update: India tally crosses 8 million mark

Global tally crosses 44 million mark

World hasn’t met a single Aichi biodiversity target: Leaked UN Report

While there has been progress, it is insufficient, according to the document

Four agreements signed at meet organised by International Solar Alliance

Prime Minister Modi called on all UN members to join ISA to save the Earth

Global Eco Watch: Atlantic Salmon returning to Maine river after dam removals

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

Global Eco Watch: European Bison to be introduced into Kentish woodland

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

WTO finally sides with the US; terms India’s solar conditions ‘inconsistent’

India had appealed against an earlier decision of WTO which favoured the US

IFAD and Morocco sign $25 million dollar deal to finance rural development

This project aims to reduce poverty by 30 per cent by 2030

Grains of culture

Why China lost out to Europe in industrialisation

Microbes hold the key

Bacteria could play a crucial role in restoring fertile prairies in North America

Fighting fire with fire

Side effects of a drug can be subdued by using another

Congress, allies approve statehood for Telangana

Hyderabad to be common capital for 10 years

Women interrupted

Surgical removal of uterus causes unnatural menopause, leads to memory decline

Winds not favourable

Turbines can increase local temperatures

Carbon suckers

Mangroves store four times more carbon than other forests

EXCLUSIVE: Eben Moglen says freedom depends on the Net

Beware of even democratic regimes which want to wiretap

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Double standards

Bumps on road fuel cars

India signs nuclear convention

Intended as gift to Obama

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

UN reports fall in development assistance from donor countries

Decline in aid will affect efforts to reach Millennium Development Goals by 2015

Another atmospheric river storm is battering California

Emergency declared in the US state; Third such storm to affect it since December 26

A satellite data system will help detect, act on methane emissions

Methane Alert and Response System to help track major emission sources globally

This September was the 5th warmest in 142 years: Report

For the Southern Hemisphere, the month was the hottest this year

Watch out for new COVID-19 strain, warns Niti Aayog’s Paul

Priority genome sequencing for those landing from the UK amid heightened surveillance