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Climate Change

Top oceans court delivers advisory opinion on climate change

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has clarified countries’ obligations to combat marine pollution and safeguard marine environment amid climate impacts

NEWS AND VIEWS

Environment

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 24, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & …

Governance

Toothy terror: Human crocodile conflict to be big poll issue as villages around Odisha’s Bhitarkanika vote on June 1

Locals allege politicians have not done enough to make are safe from crocodile attacks, …

Governance

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 23, 2024)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high …

Africa

Sudan recorded highest violence against healthcare staff in conflict zones in 2023: Report

In Sudan, at least 28 health workers were kidnapped in six incidents in 2023

Environment

How politics and climate could affect the Antarctic Treaty

Climatic changes in Antarctica like melting of Antarctic ice sheets & resulting rising …

Health

Could bird flu lead to the next pandemic?

Cases of avian flu were also detected at farms in Victoria and Western Australia this week. Photo for representation: iStock

The first case of H5N1 bird flu was reported in Australia this week. Is the world prepared …

Climate Change

Severe Cyclone Remal makes landfall along Bangladesh and West Bengal coasts

Both coasts could be innundated by storm surges a metre high in West Bengal and upto 4 …

Climate Change

Vessel overloaded with people capsizes near Bangladesh’s Mongla, as Remal hurtles towards coast

Monsoon circulation adding to cyclone system & expanding Remal’s diameter; Red …

Videos

Water

Mass fish kill incident in Periyar river amid industrial pollution

At present, there are about 336 industries existing in the Edayar Industrial Area

Food

Patanjali product ban: Celebrities, influencers equally responsible for misleading advertisements

Climate Change

May 2024 to mark one-year streak of high temperatures?

Climate Change

Why Nagaland faced unprecedented flooding after decades | Alarming Variations Ep-03

Health

Watch: What does an ideal diet look like according to new ICMR nutrition guidelines?

Climate Change

How did Venezuela’s Humboldt glacier shrink to an ice field?

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Ghazipur landfill fire: Annual choking hazard for Delhi

Authorities have missed multiple deadlines to clear out the legacy waste from Ghazipur landfill

Africa

Sudan, a country displaced

One of Africa’s largest and most populous countries is on the brink of famine after a year of war between its Army and main paramilitary

Down To Earth video journalists, Prabhat Kumar and Dhruval Parekh, are at the ground zero of the ‘Farmers’ Protest 2.0’. Both were at the Shambhu border crossing between Patiala in Punjab and Ambala in Haryana as hundreds of farmers from Punjab attempted

Agriculture

Farmers’ Protests 2.0: DTE reports from ground zero Shambhu border

DTE video journalists, Prabhat Kumar & Dhruval Parekh, at Shambhu border as Haryana Police fired tear gas on farmers crossing from Punjab

It has been an ‘arid winter’ in the Union Territory of Ladakh. There has been a complete absence of snowfall since November 2023. And it has set alarm bells ringing in the fragile region. This photo shows the Sangam Point near Nimmo village of Leh distric

Climate Change

Ladakh: No snow in the cold desert

The arid winter in the region this time is raising concerns among the local population, as it forebodes a potentially alarming situation

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ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट: इस चुनावी मौसम में भी सिर्फ 35 किलो अनाज और सामाजिक स्वीकार्यता मांग रहे हैं कुष्ठ रोगी

कुष्ठ रोगियों को दो पेंशनों के 1900 रुपए और पांच किलो राशन मिलता है। रोजगार के लिए उन्हें तकनीकी शिक्षा तक नहीं दी जा रही

जैव विविधता

प्रदूषण, कीटनाशक या जलवायु परिवर्तन में से कौन है भौंरे, मधुमखियों और तितलियों जैसे परागणकों के लिए सबसे बड़ा खतरा

रिसर्च से पता चला है कि जलवायु परिवर्तन परागणकों के लिए प्रमुख खतरा बनकर उभरा है, जिसे नियंत्रण करना सबसे कठिन है

वन्य जीव

परजीवी कीट के कारण कम हो रही है मूस की आबादी, वैज्ञानिकों ने लगाया पता

अध्ययन में शामिल वयस्क मूसों में से 10 या आधे संक्रमित पाए गए, उन 10 में से तीन के कानों के सिरे क्षतिग्रस्त हो गए थे, यह स्थिति परजीवी कीट ई. श्नाइडेरी संक्रमण के कारण हुई थी

Data Centre

Climate Change

Islands of heat

CSE study shows how Indian urban centres are trapping more heat due to built-up landscapes, in turn impacting health

Waste

Global stances on various facets of plastic pollution

As the fourth round of talks begin in Ottawa for a global plastic treaty, CSE analyses positions taken by various countries on plastics

Environment

The ground beneath our feet

Why soil health and biodiversity matters for the survival of the planet

Water

Parched Garden City

How Bengaluru’s water crisis is of its own making

Factsheet

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Did heat dissuade voters during the third phase?

Climate Change

Lok Sabha 2024: Did heat dissuade voters during phase 3?

Almost half of the districts analysed saw a rise in temperature as well as a lower voter turnout on polling day on May 7, 2024

Sunita Narain's Desk

Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and the Editor of Down To Earth magazine. She is an environmentalist who pushes for changes in policies, practices and mindsets