Single-use plastic ban: Environment lessons India can learn from East Africa
Import, manufacturing or sale of single-use plastic bags in Kenya could earn a fine of $40,000 for companies and $500 for individuals
COVID-19: The poor must wait years for the jab
Intellectual property rights can act as a barrier against wide access to vaccines, treatments for the novel coronavirus disease
All that happened at UNCCD COP14
The 14th Conference of Parties in New Delhi saw delegates discuss desertification in detail. Here are the discussions they did and decisions they made
‘We expect to find more interstellar comets in the future’
Nasa scientist Davide Farnocchia, who was one of the first to make observations about the new interstellar comet, speaks to Down To Earth
‘Rejuvenation treatment can delay onset of heart diseases, cancer’
Steve Horvath, a geneticist who was able to reverse nine people’s biological clock recently, spoke to Down To Earth about the study
Pacific heatwave: ‘More research needed to find what causes this’
Down To Earth speaks to marine heatwave experts Nicholas Bond about the high sea surface temperature anomaly in the Pacific and its significance
Extreme anomalies
Between January and June 2019 extreme weather events across the world broke the century-mark
US biologist found dead during Crete conference, police suspect homicide
Suzanne Eaton was working as a developmental biologist at Germany’s Max Planck institutes
Five countries had zero malaria cases in 2018: WHO
While China and El Salvador reported no cases for second consecutive year; Iran, Malaysia & Timor-Leste had zero cases of the …
MIT researchers explore physics of evaporation
More than temperature, it's changes in pressure that influence how quickly liquid turns into gas
El Salvador recognises forests as living entities
The central American country has lost about 85 per cent of its native forests since the 1960s
Feathers came 100 million years before birds: Study
The structures formed 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period not for display or flight, but purely for insulation
Meeting Paris climate goals can save lives. Here's proof
Paris Agreement, which aims to curbing emissions well below 2°C, can prevent 110 to 2,720 annual heat-related deaths in 15 US cities
Poor air quality can affect pregnancy, raise death risk
High level of pollutants in air is responsible for one of every nine global deaths, totaling over seven million premature deaths a year, …
WHO releases first-of-its-kind patient safety rights charter ahead of Patient Safety Day
Outlines core rights of all patients in the context of safety of health care
‘Cancel all debt’: Activists disrupt IMF, World Bank annual meet
Call for reparations as solution for stabilising global economy during debt restructuring panel
Climate change responsible for over 80% of temperature rise within Asia last month, the hottest April ever: WWA
Climate change and El Nino combined to push minimum and mean temperature rise in eastern India to highest ever in April
World Earth Day 2024: Global network presents solutions for cutting down plastic use in food chain
Slow Food Earth Markets around the world suggest steps undertaken by it to reduce plastics in their food systems
The year 2023 smashed several climate records, with some being ‘chart-busting’: WMO report
Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat reached …
‘Paxlovid rebound’ cases have experts scrambling for answers
Is it happening because of the antiviral or is this just how the virus behaves?
Monkeypox outbreak brings focus back on smallpox vaccines. But which countries have stock?
Smallpox vaccination was discontinued after smallpox was eradicated in the 1980s
Road traffic deaths declined overall, but those of cyclists and pedestrians rose in last decade: WHO report
Cyclists deaths have increased by 70 per cent in a decade; just 25 per cent of countries have laws in place to support public transportation,…
AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector
Crisis with AMR obliges dairy sector to look beyond maximising cattle productivity and focus on both milk quantity, quality
AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance
The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented
Mysterious pneumonia-like illness grips China, sparks fear of a pandemic
Experts speculate mycoplasma bacterium to be behind outbreak; more information needed for confirmation