Science
Down To Earth
Unhealthy Climate
As the global negotiations increasingly talk about the impacts of climate change on health, the upcoming UN CoP meet in Morocco will debate one important aspect: how to fund health adaptation
7 min |
September 1, 2016
Down To Earth
Go Gokul Gone
For all the noise around cow protection, NDA's cow mission, the very first it announced on assuming power, has nearly died
5 min |
September 1, 2016
Down To Earth
Dry no more
Rajasthan has launched an ambitious programme to become drought-free in four years.
4 min |
March 16, 2017
Down To Earth
Genesis Of Water
Life on Earth is the result of several fascinating coincidences, of which the presence of water is considered the most important. But we are still not sure where this water came from.
6 min |
March 16, 2017
Down To Earth
Under Mysterious Threat
About 100 children in Odisha's tribal district of Malkangiri have died of viral encephalitis in the past two months. Is the state emerging as another hotbed of acute encephalitis syndrome?
5 min |
November 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Emerging Pollution Capitals of India
As Delhi chokes on bad air, other cities are not far behind
5 min |
November 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Fatal Test
A Maharashtra legislature panel's suggestion to make sex-determination test mandatory could derail decades of efforts to protect the rights of women and the safety of the girl child.
4 min |
June 1, 2017
Down To Earth
Landslide Trigger
Leakage from the tunnel carrying water to Parbati II hydroelectric plant in Kullu is just one way how the project threatens the landslide-prone area.
4 min |
June 1, 2017
Down To Earth
New Systems, Old Habits
Launched in 2014, the continuous monitoring systems for highly polluting industries were expected to usher in a new era of environmental governance in India. But poor planning, hasty execution and lack of enforcement have made the new-age regulatory mechanism a non-starter. Sanjeev Kumar Kanchan reports.
2 min |
June 1, 2017
Down To Earth
A Clean Miss
The new Swachh Survekshan ranking promotes cities with poor waste management practices.
6 min |
June 1, 2017
Down To Earth
Dry Run
Nutritional standards for the sale of camel milk, issued for the first time by the government, are a huge threat to the nascent dairy industry.
4 min |
February 01, 2017
Down To Earth
Out Of The Abyss
The recent surge in earthquakes and the explanation for the formation of the world's largest exposed fault have provided momentum to seismological research. SHREESHAN VENKATESH looks at the latest findings.
8 min |
February 01, 2017
Down To Earth
Warned, Yet Unprepared
States prone to floods have failed to implement management schemes, finds a performance audit of CAG
6 min |
August 16, 2017
Down To Earth
The Net Result Of Bonn Is Lukewarm At Best
The recently-concluded COP delivered little considering what the world has witnessed in terms of climate-induced loss in 2017
6 min |
December 01, 2017
Down To Earth
Drilling To Extinction
Unregulated large-scale mining activities have decimated plant and wildlife populations in the once-rich Saranda forest in Jharkhand
3 min |
December 01, 2017
Down To Earth
Employed But Poor
Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation
2 min |
December 01, 2017
Down To Earth
The Countdown Begins
In the world’s biggest-ever electoral exercise, the largest democracy has elected a new government. It’s not just a national occasion of celebration and hope; the world is closely watching India. The new government is taking charge when the countdown to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) has begun. In just 10 years—by 2030 or in just two tenures of a Union government in India—the world has to deliver on the ambitious 17 sdgs and 169 targets.For each of these goals, India has the pivotal role in defining whether the world will be able to meet these targets. That's because of the sheer number of Indians who are lagging behind in each of these development indices. So, for the new government it is not just a national development agenda, but also a global responsibility. Down To Earth has set a roadmap for the new government, which can also become a framework for the world to ensure development for all
10+ min |
June 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Welfare Interrupted
Sloppy government attitude holds up a project and a technology that can manage faecal waste as well as generate clean fuel SHAGUN KAPIL VALSAD, GUJARAT
6 min |
June 01, 2019
Down To Earth
A Sweet Trick
The sugar lobby does not want an answer to the global debate on whether sugar is bad for health
4 min |
June 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Reverse Gear On Oil Palm
Sixteen years after the Supreme Court banned monoculture plantations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands' fragile ecosystem, the administration wants it revoked
5 min |
April 01, 2019
Down To Earth
March Against Asbestos
Though its use is banned in most countries, the asbestos industry continues to thrive at the cost of putting millions of people at risk
3 min |
April 01, 2019
Down To Earth
War zone Cauvery
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are once again at logger heads over the sharing of the Cauvery waters. Why have the successive agreements failed to resolve the century-long dispute?
10+ min |
October 1, 2016
Down To Earth
Vale Of Apatanis
Surrounded by wooded hills in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh is the small Apatani valley, covering 26 square kilometres.VIKAS CHOUDHARY spends over a week with the Apatani tribe, capturing their lives and landscape in photographs. STUART BLACKBURN, author of Into the Hidden Valley, a novel on the Apatanis, explains the social fabric and beliefs of the tribe.
3 min |
October 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Go Forage
One person's weed can be another person's green
4 min |
October 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Undetected Window
India cannot eradicate tuberculosis unless it treats the infection in cattle.
4 min |
October 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Sun Burnt
In a panic to meet its solar energy target Karnataka changed its policy. The move has almost destroyed the initiative.
5 min |
October 16, 2016
Down To Earth
Anger Of The Jobless Youth
Their frustrations in an unjust world can take various expressions—a fidayeen in iraq, a stone pelter in kashmir, a mercenary in saudi arabia, a rabid gaurakshak (cow protector) in India or a hedonist in shanghai.
10 min |
May 01, 2018
Down To Earth
How IT Threatens Democracy
Social media could be just the start of a slippery slope leading to an orwellian world controlled by big data brother.
3 min |
May 01, 2018
Down To Earth
Affirmative Action Policies Are Under Threat
Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar speaks to Jitendra.
2 min |
May 01, 2018
Down To Earth
Root unearthed
Gandrayani is a root used widely in Uttarakhand to enhance the flavour of dishes. But there is hardly any research on the health benefits of this plant.
3 min |