Down To Earth
HIDDEN RESOURCE
Punjab's 1.4 million abandoned borewells offer a chance to mitigate flood damage and replenish depleting groundwater
4 min |
December 01, 2025
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Flattened frontiers
Efforts to reclaim degraded land from Chambal ravines expose both people and biodiversity to ecological risks from erosion and flooding
5 min |
December 01, 2025
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Rights in transit
A recent dispute over transport and trade of kendu leaves in Odisha highlights differing interpretations of forest rights laws in the state
6 min |
December 01, 2025
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Bangla generic drugs to the rescue
A buyer's club for generic cystic fibrosis drugs sourced from Bangladesh highlights the country's laudable pharma development
4 min |
December 01, 2025
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Direct approach
A new direct cash transfer scheme as well as decades of women-centric programmes yield an electoral windfall for the ruling alliance in Bihar
5 min |
December 01, 2025
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COP OF TALK
The UN's 30th climate summit, COP30 in Belém, was billed as the COP of truth and implementation.It was an opportunity for the world to move beyond diagnosis to delivery. Instead it revealed a system struggling to prove its relevance.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
IOCL & INFINEUM FORGE STRATEGIC LUBRICANT PARTNERSHIP
Infineum India and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at deepening their collaboration to unlock long-term business value and drive innovation in India's mobility sector. The agreement was formalized at IOCL's Mumbai office, with Bakim Patra, Executive Director (Lubes) at IOCL, and Harshad Jambaulikar, General Manager of Infineum India, as the principal signatories.
1 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
BREAKING DOWN THE BASICS: A LESSON IN ASSET RELIABILITY
Before you go marching down to your reliability engineers and ask questions like, “What are the top 10 worst performing assets in our production line?”, it’s important to know the actual difference between an asset and reliability.
7 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
BEYOND THE LABEL: UNDERSTANDING LUBRICANT TECHNICAL AND SAFETY DATA SHEETS
Over the years in lubrication, I have noticed that many professionals either overlook or misinterpret lubricant datasheets, especially Product Datasheets (PDS), which are key to selecting the proper lubricant. While Safety Datasheets (SDS) are widely known due to compliance requirements, the PDS holds the technical insights needed for informed decision-making. Yet, it is often misunderstood or ignored.
3 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
PREDICT OIL USEFUL LIFE WITH REAL-TIME DATA
Oil is the life of any hydraulic or lubrication system.
8 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
CONTAMINATION REALIZATION: A CASE EXAMPLE AT A STEEL MILL
Condition monitoring, contamination control, lubrication excellence, and machine reliability are keywords that are often overused and misunderstood.
6 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
EFFECTIVE USE OF THE PATCH TEST FOR SIMPLE ON-SITE ANALYSIS
The very best oil analysis programs incorporate some degree of onsite analysis. For most plants, mills, and mines, particle monitoring is the most productive onsite oil analysis activity available.
4 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
Unlocking the Power of Oil Analysis & Particle Counting
Lubrication practices ensure peak performance and longev ity in machinery maintenance.
4 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
SMART FILTRATION IN HEAVY INDUSTRIES:
PROTECTING WORKERS IN CEMENT AND STEEL MANUFACTURING
5 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
HOW THE RIGHT LUBRICATION TOOLS AND HARDWARE INFLUENCE MACHINE RELIABILITY
Having spent a good portion of my career around heavy machinery, both in the military and later in the civilian world, I’ve come to realize one critical fact: the tools you use matter just as much as the skills you have.
4 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
MOLYGRAPH LUBRICANTS SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDES 'AUTOMOTIVE TECH DAY 2025' IN PUNE
Molygraph Lubricants, a leader in high-performance and specialty lubrication solutions, successfully hosted the Automotive Tech Day 2025 on 9th October 2025 in Pune, bringing together key professionals, engineers, and decision-makers from India's leading automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.
1 min |
November – December, 2025
MACHINERY LUBRICATION INDIA
HOW HEAT AFFECTS LUBRICANTS: UNDERSTANDING THE ARRHENIUS RATE RULE
Is it true that a lubricant's life is cut in half for every 10 degrees C (18 degrees F) increase in operating temperature?
2 min |
November – December, 2025
Down To Earth
Belém or bust
COP30 may be humanity's last chance to act as warming accelerates and adaptation funds falter, warn a series of reports released ahead of UN climate talks in Belém, Brazil
7 min |
November 16, 2025
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Views on the annual Delhi pollution debate
This is in response to the \"Photo of the day: A game of soccer in post-Diwali Delhi\" published on the website on October 21, 2025.
2 min |
November 16, 2025
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Defined to exclude
Kerala has declared itself free of 'extreme poverty', even as people employed in the informal sector, tribal populations and coastal communities continue to live in extremely impoverished conditions
3 min |
November 16, 2025
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WE MAY SEE MORE
As the number of extreme events keeps increasing, chances of compound extreme events also grows
2 min |
November 16, 2025
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ICAR's claims exposed by its own data
Why has ICAR flouted crop testing rules and ignored data red flags to push gene-edited rice strains that will not benefit farmers?
4 min |
November 16, 2025
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It's all in the name
The Delhi High Court has ruled that no product in India can carry the label 'ORS' unless it strictly adheres to the formula recommended by the World Health Organization
4 min |
November 16, 2025
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Excessive groundwater extraction can cause subsidence
Subsidence is a global phenomenon seen not just in coastal regions, but also in inland areas. Natural subsidence progresses slowly, but anthropogenic activities, like excessive groundwater extraction, can significantly accelerate the rate, says LEONARD OHENHEN, assistant professor, department of earth system science, University of California, Irvine, US. In an interview with SUSHMITA SENGUPTA, Ohenhen says that climate change intensifies the problem through multiple pathways.
3 min |
November 16, 2025
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SOME OVERLOOKED ASPECTS
Increasing night-time temperatures and rapid intensification of cyclones already happening
1 min |
November 16, 2025
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Stork sanctuary
Villages in Uttar Pradesh mount efforts to protect painted storks and inspire a conservation movement
2 min |
November 16, 2025
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Setback in Hasdeo
Chhattisgarh high court order upholds mining in the state's Hasdeo Arand forest over community claims, challenging core tenets of Forest Rights Act
5 min |
November 16, 2025
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Heavier footprints
Investments and capital owned by the world's wealthiest few are driving the climate crisis, according to a first-of-its-kind report
3 min |
November 16, 2025
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EARTH IS WARMING FASTER
Changes in weather systems, once expected decades hence, appear to be unfolding now. In India the consequences are intensifying
10+ min |
November 16, 2025
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GOVERNING THE CLOUDS
In the absence of evidence, replicability, funding and transparency, cloud seeding languishes as an imperfect science
6 min |