What is so strange about Cyclone Gulaab?
Between 1891 and 2020 only 50 cyclones have formed in September in the Indian subcontinent.
Between 1891 and 2020 only 50 cyclones have formed in September in the Indian subcontinent.
More than 70,000 square kilometres of marsh and forest land have burnt in the Pantanal in the last three years. This equals about 4 million football fields.
On July 1, 2021, Delhi experienced a heatwave, when the maximum temperature rose to 43.5°C.
Did you know that the humble ceiling fan is the best defense against the sweltering heat that has swept across the country? When we feel hot our first reaction is to turn the air conditioner on.
The harpy eagle is unable to feed its young due to the deforestation of the Amazon, says a new study. The study was conducted by a team of conservation biologists from the University of East Anglia, UK.
Down to Earth is Science and Environment fortnightly published by the Society for Environmental Communication, New Delhi.
Climate change has made the Indian Ocean more unpredictable than ever. On one hand, there are more cyclones emerging out of this ocean,
Farmer protests in India have registered an almost five-fold increase since 2017, says the Centre for Science and Environment.
Plastic items from takeaway food and drink dominated the litter in the world’s oceans,
Global CO2 emissions need to drop to net zero by 2050 to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 deg Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Unscientific dumping affects agriculture in nearby villagers, leads to infections
The WHO has developed a framework for the production and distribution of vaccines.
India's lockdown during the pandemic brought untold miseries to the working-class people. After the lockdown was announced on March 23,2020, hundred and thousands of migrants began to leave the big cities trying to go back to their villages.
World water day special: How Meegni and Himmatpura, two villages in India's most drought prone region of India,
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has shown what it can achieve by putting down water conservation at its core.
On February 28, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that by the time India celebrated its 75th Independence Day in 2022, farmers’ income would have doubled.