Down to Earth - 1 Feb 2025
FUTURE OF WASTE
Fire-climate feedback loop in the making
Hydrocarbon exploration threatens India’s only ape species
INDUSTRIAL WASTE CIRCULARITY: A CO-BENEFIT APPROACH FOR DECARBONIZATION AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION
The Age of Trump
Digest
Civil Lines
Appraisal
Wildfire
Patently Absurd
Inspiring initiative for revival of native seeds
More ENGAGE
Trump's second term begins with a flurry of ominous orders
Forest fire management model from Uttarakhand
Union tribal ministry takes note of forest rights violations
1,000 WORDS VIKAS CHOUDHARY
Friends of the forest
IN COURT
INDIA
GLOBAL
Face of future
INTEGRATED ONLINE AND ONSITE TRAINING ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Threat to survival
Double whammy
Threat to survival
Guardians of Hollongapar
Every drop counts
Every drop counts
INNER STEEL
INNER STEEL
CREATE GYPSUM
SUGAR SOLUTIONS
SUGAR SOLUTIONS
FIRE UP BIOMASS
HAZARDOUS BUT USEFUL
ENERGY AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT
SIFT THROUGH THE DUST
SIFT THROUGH THE DUST
FOLLOW THE PAPER TRAIL
Uniting the Ecosystem: Empowering Smallholder Farmers and Solving India's Water Crisis
Lasting solutions
Dry spread
Banking on flawed drug voluntary licences
K28,000
India's weather agency turns 150 years old
Billionaire colonialism in the 21st century
Amitav Ghosh on the future of human migration in a warming world
IMD at 150
IMD at 150
‘Migration is going to be a battlefield’
Amitav Ghosh Fourth Estate India R799 (Hardcover) 496
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The inheritance effect
ENABLING DECENTRALISED RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
CLIMATE RESILIENT CITIES ADAPTIVE AND MITIGATIVE APPROACHES FOR A WARMING HABITAT
Simultaneous outbreaks in seven states
India needs innovative ideas to stay in race for AI prowess
INDUSTRIAL WASTE CIRCULARITY: A CO-BENEFIT APPROACH FOR DECARBONIZATION AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION
Get the transition right
Digest
Opinion
Factsheet
Agriculture
Genetic research
Guillain-Barré outbreak
Civil Lines
Patently Absurd
Introduce layers in poverty measurement
More ENGAGE
Four Madhya Pradesh districts hold mixed-gender cricket tournament
January 2025 warmest on record globally
Avian influenza strains jump hosts
1,000 WORDS VIKAS CHOUDHARY
On an equal footing
Avian influenza strains find new hosts
Jharkhand CM warns Centre to clear coal dues
Global health initiatives at risk with US aid freeze
INDIA
IN COURT
GLOBAL
BUDGET SQUEEZE
Sustainability of groundwater sources in climate-resilient cities
No more a rarity
Simultaneous outbreak
Missed opportunity
REHASH OF OLD IDEAS
Missed opportunity
Decoded script
Uniting the Ecosystem: Empowering Smallholder Farmers and Solving India's Water Crisis
CLIMATE’S UNSOLICITED PAYOUT
Property that cannot be insured cannot obtain a mortgage. It is almost impossible to sell that property without slashing their resale value. And this could crash housing markets in the US
Insurance companies in Europe have been warning since 1990s that unchecked global warming could unleash so many extreme events that companies would have to limit how much insurance they provide
CHANGING RISK LANDSCAPE
Pay more if at higher risk
Parametric and index-based insurance policies are gaining prominence as a more responsive insurance in a warming world. Payout is determined based on a pre-defined weather parameter reaching a threshold
In 2024, Nagaland became India’s first state to insure its entire area under Disaster Risk Transfer Parametric Insurance Solution to protect the state’s infrastructure and reduce economic losses due to disaster
Risk assessments have to be able to account for cascading, compounding risks that are becoming common. Accurate models can come up with right triggers for parametric and index-based solutions
THERMAL DISCOMFORT
SPECIES AT RISK
DeepSeek AI model is a sobering idea for India
DeepSeek AI model is a sobering idea for India
ENERGY AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT
Discovery of a grass's ability to control termites
Banana pseudo-stem rich in nutrients
Arnold Dix on the efforts to rescue workers trapped in an Uttarakhand tunnel
Organic move
Organic move
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN CSR LEADERSHIP (PGCCSRL)
INSIGHTS FROM THE BATCH OF 2024-25
TERMITE TRAP
TERMITE TRAP
‘Fragile terrain not the cause of tunnel collapse but an excuse’
Arnold Dix Simon & Schuster India U699 (paperback) 291
‘That particular mountain was about as angry as I have ever seen…’
NOTHING PSEUDO ABOUT IT
Employed, but not paid
ENABLING DECENTRALISED RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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