Down To Earth - March 01, 2022

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CONSIDERED AN ENIGMA TODAY, CHEETAH IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIAN HISTORY, NOTES WILDLIFE EXPERT DIVYABHANUSINH IN THE STORY OF INDIA’S CHEETAHS. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1995, A NEW EDITION OF THE BOOK WAS LAUNCHED RECENTLY, WITH A CHAPTER ON INDIA’S PROJECT CHEETAH

Amplifying discontent

Absence of a good census allows politicians to exploit aspirations, hopes, sentiments, language traditions and social identities of people in Manipur

Lethal hypocrisy of US Special 301 Report

Patent protection in the US is a convoluted and expensive business and yet it pulls up other countries that have robust systems

Displaced by disasters

Climate emergency replaces wars and conflicts as the biggest global cause for internal displacement of people

15 KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS, 11 DIE

Despite ample laws and implementation structures, industries continue to release untreated effluents into the environment. What can be done to make the defaulters follow the law?

Small wonder?

The government believes that nano-fertiliser can improve soil health and help double agricultural income, but farmers and scientists remain unsure about its benefits

Will The Aral Sea Ever Come Back?

Forty years of “creeping environmental problems” built up into a mammoth monster insidiously sucking the great Aral Sea virtually dry

A SILENT CRISIS

Years of undernutrition and a heavy reliance on rice, supplied through public distribution system, could be fuelling diabetes among tribal population

ARE WE THERE YET?

Model villages are Still far from the goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022

A FOREST DROUGHT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT

Severe dry spells in Indian forests have hit the livelihood of more than 100 million people