Down To Earth
Drowning In Debris
Construction and demolition waste is piling up across India. Regulations are in place, but recycling is yet to gain momentum.AVIKAL SOMVANSHI breaks down the cartouche of waste mismanagement
9 min |
June 16, 2019
Down To Earth
Africa's Historic Pivot
IF RWANDA IS WILLING TO RISK PREFERENTIAL ACCESS TO THE US MARKET IN ORDER TO DEVELOP ITS DOMESTIC GARMENT INDUSTRY, THEN IT MUST BE CONFIDENT THAT IT WILL FIND ALTERNATIVE MARKETS FOR ITS EXPORTS
4 min |
June 16, 2019
Highlights Champs
A Call For Clean Oceans
These sculptures are a call for clean oceans.
3 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Off Track
Billy Arjan Singh would turn in his grave on seeing this image.
1 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Monitoring Tigers Beyond Tiger Reserves
The slender, bony-white trunks of dhavda trees, standing out against their dark-barked neighbours, appeared unusually mottled.
4 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Off-Roads And Off-Limits
Until a few years ago, the ecologically fragile lateritic plateau of Kaas, home to rare and endemic floral species, witnessed large scale damage due to uncontrolled tourism.
2 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
The Corbett Foundation
Originally from Bombay, Dilip Khatau began exploring the foothills of Nainital District in 1959 after reading about Jim Corbett’s adventures in The Man-eaters of Kumaon. He fell in love with India’s oldest national park and became a regular visitor over the next four decades.
5 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Mumbai's Forgotten Shores The Coastal Road
You never forget a first.
5 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Mugger-Man In Disguise
“It was just a palm-sized baby; in four months it has grown to almost half a metre now,”
6 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Darryl D'Monte
November 11, 1944 – March 16, 2019The original environmental journalistAnand Parthasarathy remembers the veteran Mumbai-based scribe who wrote the first detailed account of the saving of the Silent Valley.
5 min |
June 2019
Sanctuary Asia
Adapt And Thrive… Or Fade Away
Earlier this year, the UN Secretary General warned, “If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change, with disastrous consequences for people and all the natural systems that sustain us.”
4 min |
June 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
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 |