Climate Risk in Africa: Adaptation and Resilience
This open access book highlights the complexities around making adaptation decisions and building resilience
The ghost of Christmas yet to come: how an AI ‘SantaNet’ might end up destroying the world
Scientists identified a series of behaviours by the AI general intelligence system which, though well-intentioned, could have adverse impacts on …
Climate Change Quiz: How much do you know about the climate crisis?
The Climate Change Quiz is a step towards creating awareness on the climate crisis. Take the quiz and check out your climate change quotient.
How agroforestry could solve climate crisis
With agroforestry, degraded land can be transformed into food-growing carbon sinks
How early warning systems helped get funds for Nepal's flood-prone Terai region
Community-based flood early warning systems (CBFEWS) have been particularly successful in relaying crucial flood risk information
2020 Tyler Prize for the environment awarded to Indian economist who formulated Green Economy
Pavan Sukhdev, environmental economist, and Gretchen C Daily, conservation biologist, will share this year’s ‘Nobel Prize for the …
Look back at the decade: Antibiotic resistance
One big question from the second decade of the new millenium: Can we fight antibiotic overuse?
‘State protection for wildlife not a panacea for conservation’
Down To Earth speaks to Brain Heath, CEO of Mara Conservancy and director of Seiya Ltd, about the conservation model in Kenya, other African countries
The dark side of 'racial science'
Angela Saini exposes how some scientists even today use race to define intelligence, behaviour, predisposition to diseases and even creativity
Canada goose, a prominent symbol of North American wildlife
The species that feeds predominantly on aquatic and terrestrial vegetation has a pan-continental distribution
India writes to Nepal for joint secretary-level talks over quarantine issues
Nepal had banned Indian fruits and vegetables from entering its territory after the AES outbreak in Bihar
US researchers establish Parkinson’s origins in gut
The brain disorder is caused by a misfolded protein in the gut that climbs to the brain via a nerve
Ebola in Uganda, and the dynamics of a new and different outbreak
The 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the massive West African outbreak in 2014 and 2015 share a devastating economic impact
In thunder, lightning, or... Gamma rays may warn you of the next hurlyburly
Radiation sensors can predict lightning within 10 minutes and around 2 kilometers of where they happen
‘Potentially hazardous’ space rock to fly past Earth on June 24
Named 441987 (2010 NY65), the rock has a diameter of 130 to 300 metres and will pass the Earth at a speed of more than 45,000 kilometres per …
Inflation is healthy for the economy – but too much can trigger a recession
An inflation watcher used the current US situation to break down inflation for the layperson
US Defense Department is worried about climate change. It's also a huge carbon emitter
The Department of Defense is the US government’s largest fossil fuel consumer, accounting for between 77% and 80% of all federal government …
'Oxfam’s used clothing trade in Africa opened employment, cut waste'
Second-hand clothing business has changed peoples’ lives for the better — they get a fair wage, steady employment, health care and …
Caster Semenya: the legal and ethical issues that should concern us all
There are ethical concerns about the way in which the research was conducted that led to the decision
Graphic design could be holding back action on climate change – here’s how
Knowing our audiences better and being informed about how we deploy colour, imagery, logos and other elements in the graphic design of climate …
Road to measles elimination is predictable, but can be rocky
In 2019, Ukraine, Philippines, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Venezuela and Brazil, recorded tens of thousands of measles …
Four years since killer quake, Nepal building homes and skills
A multi-pronged partnership is helping families recover in Gorkha district, central Nepal
World Earth Day: A new landscape on the horizon
Changes in the East African rift system suggest that the African continent could split into two
Empathy is the secret ingredient that makes cooperation – and civilization – possible
Even initially uncooperative societies in which everyone judged each other based mostly on their own selfish perspectives, eventually discovered …
Cyclone Idai: Rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amends
It is not only the intensity of environmental disasters that makes them devastating – poverty also has a huge bearing on how things play out