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Down To Earthby Lalit Maurya13d ago
About 28 million children in India are the first generation in their families to complete six years of schooling, according to a new Oxford University study.
Down To Earthby K A Shaji13d ago
Nearly a decade after ‘Aditya’, India’s first solar-powered passenger ferry, entered service, Kerala is trying to turn solar and electric propulsion from an experiment into an important part of its...
Down To Earthby DTE Staff13d ago
Pakistani human rights lawyer Jalila Haider has received the 2026 Right Livelihood Award. The award recognises her work defending persecuted and marginalised communities in Balochistan.
Down To Earthby Lalit Maurya13d ago
Indian women aged 60 can expect an average of 19 more years of life, but only 5.7 years meet the study's criteria for a 'good life', compared with 8.2 years for men.
Down To Earthby Shagun13d ago
Facing a deepening El Niño and widespread drought, India’s agriculture ministry has lowered the 2026-27 foodgrain target to 373.93 million tonnes, with 177.72 million tonnes set for Rabi.
Down To Earthby DTE Staff13d ago
Cholera, an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria, continues to be a challenge for today’s world, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement on September 30, as...
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi13d ago
Summary Heavy rain is expected across Northeast India, with Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura facing yellow alerts and thunderstorms.
Down To Earthby Gideon Ndubuisi14d ago
Africa holds vast reserves of key transition minerals for electric vehicles and renewable energy, yet most countries export them raw, capturing little value.
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware15d ago
Tribal rights group Lok Swashasan Andolan has demanded the suspension of Madhya Pradesh's top forest official over an August 6 directive concerning community forest resource (CFR) rights claims.
Down To Earthby Pubarun Basu18d ago
In Jharkhand’s Rajhara village, energy transition begins in the kitchen and the field. A family may cook lunch over coal dust and firewood because an LPG refill costs too much, while a few hundred...
Down To Earthby Kiran Pandey19d ago
The global chemical review committee recommended stronger control and adopted a new guidance document on methyl parathion, a widely used insecticide.
Down To Earthby Puja Das20d ago
Cost-effective technologies could raise the share of electricity in global energy consumption to around 33 per cent today, putting the world within reach of a 35 per cent electrification target by...
Down To Earthby Som Niroula20d ago
The recent floods in Nepal have exposed the growing vulnerability of Himalayan communities and the widening gap between the scale of climate losses and international support.
Down To Earthby Shagun20d ago
The southwest monsoon has begun its withdrawal but, as the rainy season draws to a close, drought conditions persist across more than half of India, with scientists warning that the current spell...
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi20d ago
Deep depression over Bay of Bengal may bring extremely heavy rainfall to Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and Chhattisgarh today.
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla21d ago
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries that signify the health of Earth have transgressed from the safe operating limits with all the transgressed boundaries showing worsening trends, according to...
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware21d ago
Gaurav, cheetah who arrived from Namibia as among the first eight brought to India for introduction died on September 21, 2026.
Down To Earthby Sunita Narain21d ago
Soil is the next gold — this is as down-to-earth as it can be. This stepped-on material, which we take for granted, holds the key to so much we need to change in our world — from increased...
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla22d ago
2025 was the fourth consecutive year in which every major glaciated region recorded a net loss in ice mass, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) latest State of Global Water...
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi22d ago
Monsoon retreats from northwest India as temperatures rise, while a strengthening Bay of Bengal system threatens heavy rain across several states.
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