What if we could know what's going on in your brain without splicing it open
Nerve cells communicate wirelessly too. More neural pathways can explain why different parts of the brain connect quickly during complicated tasks
How childhood infections and antibiotics may increase risks of mental illness
Hospitalization for an infection might leave you at greater risk for mental illness, according to a recent study
What are we doing to stop plastic menace?
The mission to end the plastic menace must include ending single-use plastics, promoting alternatives to fossil fuel-based materials, …
Why bullshit hurts democracy more than lies
The bullshitter may do even more damage than the liar in politics
Horses caused the ethnic makeup of Eurasia to change: Studies
The Hunnic and Mongol invasions caused people in the region to transform from Indo-European to Turkic speakers
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
A tour of some of the world's most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them.
Drawdown
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of …
A Global Threat: the Emergence of Climate Change Science
Throughout history, Earth's temperature has risen and fallen at various cycles, creating extreme weather events, such as ice ages.
The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World
In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society.
Paying the Carbon Price: The Subsidisation of Heavy Polluters Under Emissions Trading Schemes
Paying the Carbon Price analyses the practice of freely allocating permits in Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs)
Exploiting the Wilderness: An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Illegally harvested ivory and endangered plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even insects are easily found for sale throughout East and …
Large businesses; larger emission footprints
Out of 250 largest emitters, India's state-owned company, Coal India, topped the list with largest GHG emission - 2076.2 million tonnes. Besides …
Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity
This book explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality.
The dark side of big data
Latest Facebook data breach episode is a reminder that rise of Big Data represents a massive engineering of society with ominous implications for …
Global Carbon Pricing: The Path to Climate Cooperation
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost …
Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave: Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species
This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth.
Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics
Environmentalists are called upon to defend their conservation efforts, yet most lack training in the ethical dimensions of conservation biology …
Talking heads
Agriculture ministers from key African countries speak to Down To Earth on strategies to make Africa food-sufficient once again
International community lauds China's efforts towards greening of Kubuqi Desert
Could the Sahara and Sahel initiative draw lessons from the Kubuqi International Desert Forum?
For environmental rights defenders, 2016 was the deadliest year on record
India emerged the fourth deadliest country in the world for land and environmental rights activists
What makes an animal clever? Research shows intelligence is not just about using tools
Species that use tools aren’t necessarily better at solving problems than species that don’t
Uncanny truth about germs
Building immunity may be a matter of keeping company with microbes, argue some immunologists
Interrogating sustainable cities
The concept of sustainable cities can be a confused one when it attempts to cater to all interests
Can science explain blue skin of Lord Krishna?
Religion interprets blue skin as the aura of a spiritual body; science considers it a rare genetic disorder
When superstition gets under the skin
In Africa, people living with albinism are perceived as ghosts and live with constant fear of being killed. Down To Earth talks to those who …