Down to Earth - 1 Aug 2025
Weather disasters fuelling adolescent marriage
Susan Greenhalgh on Cola companies,obesity
Kerala fishers oppose decision
USING AI, GIS AND REMOTE SENSING
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
WHAT DO YOU GET AFTER COMPLETING THE PROGRAMME
SOME IMPORTANT POINTS
Let’s smell the traffic
Air conditioners, water pumps show major energy saving potential for India. But are the technologies efficient enough?
Forest management
Health
Conservation breeding
Offshore mining
Digest
Susan Greenhalgh on how Soda Science investigates Big Food's manipulation of science and policy
Climate models struggle to capture rapid changes in polar regions
Spread of herbicide-tolerant cotton seeds in Madhya Pradesh
Opinion
Civil Lines
REVIVE YOUR RIVER
Save the honeybees before it is too late
WRITE TO US
UN FfD4 Seville
Cool Habitats
Farmer producer organisations must think local to thrive
Climate finance taxonomy draft: Step in the right direction
New EPR framework for non-ferrous metals
1,000 WORDS
UNEP's Frontiers report on emerging environmental risks
Women in Delhi make affordable menstrual hygiene products
Progress in several UN SDG targets halted or reversed
Pads with purpose
Progress in 35% targets stalled or reversed
India achieves 50% nonfossil fuel power capacity
Mediterranean heatwave shocks with 8°C warming
New battlefronts
BITS INDIA
IN COURT
POLICY FRAMEWORKS
SUPREME COURT
HIGH COURT
So far...
"CAUSING MASSIVE AND IRREVERSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL HARM…ALTERS THE CONDITIONS FOR A HEALTHY LIFE ON EARTH...IT DEMANDS UNIVERSAL AND EFFECTIVE LEGAL RESPONSES"
27 per cent
All in the name
All in the name
FOCUS ON HEALTHY DIETS
NUTRITION AT RISK
Risky overlap
HAZARDOUS CHURN
DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS OF OFFSHORE SAND MINING
Blind spots
Blind spots
QUITE A CHANGE
Mistaken identity
GAME CHANGERS
GAME CHANGERS
AS GOOD AS RENEWABLES
AT A CROSSROADS
PUMPED FOR CHANGE
HARDLY A DIFFERENCE
KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PROGRAM DESIGN
RAISE THE BAR
Ownership rights
Reclaiming forests
Silent spread
Silent spread
DOCUMENTARY
Climate disasters fuel child marriages across South Asia
Soda Science author on Big Food's profiteering bids
Europe removes river-barriers that pose ecological risks
BOUND BY DISASTER
‘Almost every middle-income country is being targeted by Big Food and its scientific agents’
Undamming Europe
Financial incentives to elect panchayats by consensus could have unfavourable consequences for India’s local self-governance
Scientists warn of grave health impacts
World Court weighs in
USING AI, GIS AND REMOTE SENSING
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
SOME IMPORTANT POINTS
Breaking the coal taboo
Review
Contents
Interview
Plastics
Initiative
Land access
Digest
Remembering the many hats worn by Jim Corbett on his 150th birth anniversary
International Court of Justice's climate ruling likely to boost litigation on reparations
Rehabilitation of communities from the burning coalfields of Jharia remains inadequate
Food
Civil Lines
KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES
PROGRAM DESIGN
A fight for the freedom of Karnal’s trees
Rethink the drive against plastics
Erratum
WRITE TO US
Tigers or human-eaters
Carbon Politics
India’s livestock future is not just about big hooves
India’s solar success still wired to China
Carrying capacity not just a mountain issue
Monsoon disasters batter Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand
Groundwater, not glacial melt, feeds Ganga's summer flow
Citizen-led initiative in Pune for localised rainfall insights
Rain check revolution
Mountains of misery
GLOBAL
Groundwater feeds Ganga
TRACKER
BITS INDIA
POLICY FRAMEWORKS
IN COURT
SUPREME COURT
HIGH COURT
So far...
"HUNGER REMAINS AT ALARMING LEVELS, YET THE FUNDING NEEDED TO TACKLE IT IS FALLING...FAILURE TO PROVIDE CRITICAL AID TO PEOPLE IN DESPERATE NEED WILL SOON WIPE OUT...HARD-WON GAINS"
158,651
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN CSR LEADERSHIP (PGCCSRL)
INSIGHTS FROM THE BATCH OF 2024-25
A STATUTORY ORDER, NOT AN ADVISORY
A CLEAR FRAMEWORK
BEYOND CARBON AND EMISSION
SUPPORT FOR CLIMATE REPARATION
Micro menace
TOXIC TRAIL OF PLASTICS
Soft targets
FORGED CONSENSUS
Overall numbers
A FAILURE AT CORE
SAMRAS FOREVER
Countrywide spread
‘UNCONTESTED ELECTIONS UNDERMINE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY’
REIGN OF FIRE
REIGN OF FIRE
BETWEEN FIRE AND A MASTER PLAN
BOOKS
EXHIBITION
Palette
Chhattisgarh initiative to support people struggling with mental health
Mitti shines a new light on farmer issues
TIMELESS CORBETT
TIMELESS CORBETT
Healing minds
Healing minds
‘Window to avoid worst climate scenarios is rapidly shutting’
‘Window to avoid worst climate scenarios is rapidly shutting’
Spirit of the soil
Spirit of the soil
Mitti: Ek Nayi Pehchaan
BEYOND PETHA
RECIPES
ASH GOURD JUICE
Fewer farms, older hands
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