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Down To Earthby Puja Das2 Sept 2026
India’s solar PV module manufacturing capacity reached 233GW by June 2026, but upstream capacity in cells, wafers, ingots and polysilicon remained far lower.
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi2 Sept 2026
Summary Low-pressure system moves towards Uttar Pradesh, bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms to several states, with weather conditions likely to intensify.
Down To Earthby Kiran Pandey2 Sept 2026
As the southwest monsoon enters its final month, nearly half of India’s El Niño-vulnerable districts are facing deficient rainfall, with high-priority, low-irrigation regions hit hardest.
Down To Earthby Peter Lockwood2 Sept 2026
Nairobi’s transformation into a “world-class city” is both anticipated and celebrated in Kenya’s media.
Down To Earthby Jayanta Basu1 Sept 2026
The Green Climate Fund took seven years to approve Nepal’s $49.9m glacier flood resilience project, which aims to protect about 2.4 million people from Glacial Lake Outburst Flood risks.
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware1 Sept 2026
Fossil corals from the Galápagos reveal El Niño has intensified by about 36 per cent over the past 40 years, far beyond anything seen in the last millennium.
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla1 Sept 2026
Most of the intense rainfall in eastern, east-central and northwest India in August 2026 occurred because of low pressure systems (LPS) / low pressure areas (LPA) from the Bay of Bengal and their...
Down To Earthby Kabir Singh1 Sept 2026
Maharashtra’s Women Farmers Empowerment Act gives legal recognition to women farmers through a certificate independent of land ownership.
Down To Earthby Vanhishikha Vyas1 Sept 2026
The Philippines throws away between 1.5 and 2.7 million tonnes of plastic a year. Much of it is sachets, single-serve pouches built to survive tropical heat for exactly as long as the product...
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla1 Sept 2026
Wildfires and volcanic eruptions have long been known to affect the Earth’s climate by releasing smoke, greenhouse gases and aerosols into the atmosphere.
Down To Earthby Sangram B Chavan1 Sept 2026
While announcing the Union Budget for 2026-27, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman highlighted sandalwood as an integral part of India’s social and cultural heritage and announced focused efforts...
Down To Earthby K Srinath Reddy1 Sept 2026
Low fertility doesn’t clamp down our development It has been well recognised that socio-economic development is the best contraceptive.
Down To Earthby Snigdha Das1 Sept 2026
‘Goal shouldn’t be to push fertility up or down’ Snigdha Das (SD): What does the difference between rural and urban fertility levels signify?
Down To Earthby Richard Mahapatra1 Sept 2026
The world’s most populous country is in a demographic quagmire. India’s birth rate is falling at a baffling pace. The dip is being grudgingly celebrated as the ultimate population control success.
Down To Earthby Puja Das1 Sept 2026
With large tracts of land competing with agriculture, forests and other uses, reservoirs and inland waterbodies are emerging as potential sites for utility-scale solar projects.
Down To Earthby Vivek Mishra1 Sept 2026
If there is one item ubiquitous in grocery stores across cities and villages of India, it is mustard oil.
Down To Earthby Richard Mahapatra1 Sept 2026
There is another metamorphosis to witness, after the “Cockroach Janta Party” agitation that formalised a generational identity in the country—Gen Z, the collective noun adorned as a powerful...
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware1 Sept 2026
Pune has kept fares the same for air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned buses, a model aimed at making public transport more accessible.
Down To Earthby Puja Das1 Sept 2026
Mechanically compressing the solid electrolyte in solid-state batteries can prevent lithium dendrites from growing vertically and causing short circuits, allowing the batteries to operate for...
Down To Earthby Ranjan Panda1 Sept 2026
The images coming out of Nepal are difficult to comprehend. A glacial collapse in the Langtang region, followed by a devastating flash flood through the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli river system, has once...
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