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What The Dog Saw
Noel Fitzpatrick, The Celebrity Vet Behind The Channel 4 Show The Supervet, Recounts His Often-surprising Journey In A Memoir That Celebrates The Bond Between Humans And Animals
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October 16, 2019
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Relocation Charade
21 tribal families say forest officials allied with property dealers to dupe them of the money they received for relocating from Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve
6 min |
October 16, 2019
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Towards Turbulence
As countries grapple with intense marine heat waves and stronger storms, the latest IPCC report says climate change has already altered our oceans, polar regions and high snowy mountains
5 min |
October 16, 2019
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Congratulations! India Is Open Defecation Free
On Mahatma Gandhi’s 150 th birthday, India becomes open defecation free. While it is an occasion to celebrate the achievement of creating millions of toilets in record time, it is also a time to plan for ensuring that the gains made are not lost and the pollution remains checked. Down To Earth reporters travel to 13 districts in six states to gauge if India can sustain its open defecation-free status, while Sushmita Sengupta and Snigdha Das analyse the challenges ahead
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October 1, 2019
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Insects As Food!
Will insects become an integral part of our diets, again?
3 min |
October 1, 2019
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How Food Travelled Throughout The World
Evolution ensured people adopted new foods through generations of experiments. But in a fast globalising age, this tradition has been bypassed
5 min |
October 1, 2019
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Mahatma Gandhi's Environmentalism
Gandhi’s personal lifestyle choices are not what make him crucial to the future of our species. What matters more is to understand why Gandhi anticipated the environmental crisis more than half a century before the term “sustainable development” was coined.
10+ min |
October 1, 2019
Down To Earth
The Peasant Rebels
THE BOOK IS A FICTIONAL RETELL OF THE SATNAMI REVOLT AGAINST AURANGZEB, AND UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF REBELLION IN TIMES OF OPPRESSION
2 min |
October 1, 2019
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The Importance Of Justification In Conservation
Why we should not stray away from the idea of justice in conservation in a rapidly changing planet
2 min |
September 16, 2019
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The Gaps In Closing The Ozone Hole
The cooling industry which first drilled the hole in the ozone layer is now burning the whole planet
3 min |
September 16, 2019
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The Union Government Lends A Helping Hand To A Multinational Central
The Centre’s decision to provide only fortified food items under government schemes will ensure an annual market of over ₹3,000 crore to just five multinational companies
5 min |
September 16, 2019
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How To Create Floods
Dams were built to control floods. They are now the triggers
5 min |
September 16, 2019
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Transition In Nilgiris
A laggard hill district’s journey to become open defecation free also led to it embracing organic farming
4 min |
September 16, 2019
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Tracking Smoke
Effective implementation of an efficient pollution monitoring system is caught in delays
4 min |
September 16, 2019
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Full Measure
THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME IS CRITICAL TO REVERSE THE TREND OF DEPLETING GROUNDWATER LEVELS ACROSS INDIA
4 min |
September 16, 2019
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Burning Dark
From the Arctic to the Amazon, fires are raging at an unprecedented scale, stoking an unfathomable fear: is the planet staring at an irreversible meltdown?
10+ min |
September 16, 2019
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Value Of Soil
The benefits of action against land degradation through sustainable management are seven times higher than its cost in 15 years
5 min |
September 01, 2019
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Think How To Sink
The best way to remove carbon is by sequestering it in its natural sinks
4 min |
September 01, 2019
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How To Create An Oasis
Neither a short-term solution nor a one-size-fits-all approach will help fight desertification. Governments tend to commit this mistake, but communities across the world are building on their traditional experiences to achieve land degradation neutrality
6 min |
September 01, 2019
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The Dictum On Desertification
LAND IS AT THE CORE OF FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE
5 min |
September 01, 2019
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Taming The Thar
What it takes to reclaim the world’s most populated desert
6 min |
September 01, 2019
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Silent Spread
More than 100 countries are at the risk of desertification. Left unchecked, this could fuel conflicts and displace 700 million people worldwide by 2050
8 min |
September 01, 2019
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Picture Imperfect
It’s difficult to ignore how desertification is expanding in areas that are on the front line of climate change
5 min |
September 01, 2019
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Quash The Dogma
Most policies to tackle desertification are bound to fail. The problem will get solved as soon as they become holistic
7 min |
September 01, 2019
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It Is Everybody's Business
Private sector is vital to restore land and sustain life
3 min |
September 01, 2019
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A Quarter Under Desertification
What does this mean for India where more than 60 per cent of the population depends on agriculture?
10+ min |
September 01, 2019
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Trouble For Tomato
Country's biggest tomato producing district surrenders to cheap Chinese pulp
4 min |
April 01, 2019
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Ask No Questions!
The amendment to the RTI Act will hit grassroots activism
3 min |
August 16, 2019
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Mortal Combat
Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death.
10+ min |
January 16, 2017
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Bid For Mahadayi
Should Karnataka divert the Mahadayi's water to end the water crisis in its three districts?
7 min |