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
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June 01, 2019
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
Call Of The Local
RESTAURANTS ARE TURNING TO INDIGENOUS FOODS FOR LUCRATIVE BUSINESS
4 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
Cyclone Fani - New Gust Of Wind
Cyclone Fani hits Odisha, bringing back horrid memories of the 1999 super cyclone. The state is better prepared now. But a changing climate the chemistry of cyclones as changed. This poses a bigger threat.
10+ min |
May 16, 2019
Down To Earth
To No One's Gain
Government takes back land it gave to people as their right. Now, people of three districts face eviction and have nowhere to go.
4 min |
May 16, 2019
Down To Earth
Kumbh Raises A Stink
A city that celebrated the festival of faith months ago, is on the verge of an epidemic.
5 min |
May 16, 2019
Down To Earth
Mortgaging Our Ecological
A climate change narrative lost in rhetoric and catchy metaphors.
4 min |
May 16, 2019
Down To Earth
Farmers Rights Are A Hot Potato
The fallout between US major PepsiCo and Gujarat’s potato growers underlines the looming threat to farmers’ rights in India over ownership of seeds.
5 min |
May 16, 2019
Scientific India
20 Facts You Did Not Know About.......... Einstein
Albert Einstein has been termed as a scientist of the century and has become a synonyms of intellect.
3 min |
May - June 2019
Scientific India
Yeti-Abominable Snowman: Mysteries And Myths Of The Himalayas
The Yeti is a character in ancient legends and folklore of the Himalaya people.
2 min |
May - June 2019
Scientific India
Staphylococcus Pseudintermedius: A Bacteria On The Rise
Bacteria are grossly categorized into gram positive and gram negative based on certain cellular characteristics.
3 min |
May - June 2019
Scientific India
Ready To Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is a high calorie, nutrient-dense paste (spread) which is the most widely used outpatient treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
3 min |
May - June 2019
Scientific India
Onion Bulb: A Nutritional Pouch
“In exchange for a few tears, you can take a lot of health benefits from onion”
3 min |
May - June 2019
Scientific India
Heavy Metals Toxicity: A Rising Concern In India
India is the developing country and due to industrialization and modernization, is leaving powerful impact at the global level on technical ground.
5 min |
May - June 2019
Scientific India
Food Adulteration And Its Household Methods For Detection
The replacement of substance or material for another, such that a manufactured product is incorrectly labelled and/or dosage information is not in accordance with US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) requirements generally termed as adulteration or the alteration of any substance by the intentional addition of a component not originally part of that substance; usually used to imply that the substance is debased as a result.
3 min |
May - June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
To Save A King
On October 25, 2018, my friend Dr. Shilpa Penhayade came across a tiny bundle of feathers. A security guard had saved the resplendant Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher from stray dogs and crows at the District Hospital at Mapusa, Goa...
2 min |
May 2019
Sanctuary Asia
King Of The Hill!
The Amazing Story of Jawai’s Leopards.
2 min |
May 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Black Beauty
On A Search For Blackbuck In Bihar’s Grasslands
2 min |
May 2019
Down To Earth
The Curious Mind
The urge to look towards the sky stems from an intrinsic human curiosity emanating out of not just scientific but also existential queries
4 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Uncharted Territory
The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business
6 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Not To Visit, But To Inhabit
The human civilisation is going to relocate for the first time, a part of it at least
4 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Whose Space Is It?
Governments have been exploring space for a while, but the influx of private players has altered the rules of the game. What are the laws that govern space today?
5 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Burden Of Relief
The Union government’s decision to exempt captive power plants from meeting renewable energy targets will upset India’s climate change mitigation plan
3 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Orbits Of Debris
Space waste threatens the existence of all satellites
2 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Hostile Space
A six-month stay in space induces physiological changes to the human body. A trip to Mars will be thrice that duration. Can astronauts survive the ordeal?
5 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Arrival Of The Disruptors
A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for decades. Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?
10+ min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Are We There Yet?
Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible in outer space
5 min |
May 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Are We Aliens?
There is a theory that says life could have intergalactic origin
1 min |
May 01, 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Zero Budget Natural Farming
How to fix our broken food system and stop its collateral damage on Nature
6 min |