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Combat desertification COP17: Rangelands finally get a seat at the table
5+ hour, 19+ min ago (872+ words) Rangelands, long sidelined in global policy, took centre stage at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, where delegates launched a US$1.2 billion Rangelands Flagship Initiative and broader US$1.3 billion land restoration finance package. Backed by new economic analysis valuing rangeland ecosystem services at…...
When the mountain breaks: Nepal’s disaster and the failure to act together
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (36+ words) Down To Earth Soumyajit Bhar teaches sustainability and ecological economics at BML Munjal University and directs its Community Transitions Research Centre. Views are personal....
There is poison everywhere in this central UP district
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (128+ words) Down To Earth A water body in the Rania industrial area of Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat lies covered with a thick layer of green algae and plastic waste. Kanpur Dehat is one of three central UP districts that are today…...
Tamil Nadu drops plans for Chennai’s second airport at Parandur after resistance from farmers
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (566+ words) Tamil Nadu has scrapped plans for a greenfield airport at Parandur after a sustained, 1,000-day protest by farmers of Ekanapuram and neighbouring villages. Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay told the Assembly the project would be abandoned because it threatened fertile…...
Rise of stunted generation
1+ week, 3+ day ago (85+ words) Down To Earth The study comes at a time when climate change’s impacts on stunting are being deliberated widely as a persistent development challenge. As per Unicef, climate change could cause stunting in an additional 40 million children by 2025. Studies show…...
As record El Nino peaks, world leaders meet in Mongolia to confront a drying planet
2+ week, 1+ day ago (929+ words) Droughts in Africa and Asia, wildfires in Europe, and harvest failures for farmers across the world have intensified this year, even as the 2026-27 El Nino, forecast to be the strongest such event on record, is only just beginning to peak....
We had set camera traps for yellow-throated martens near Ranikhet; instead, we got a surprise at midday
2+ week, 3+ day ago (409+ words) Camera traps set in Ranikhet Reserve Forest to study yellow-throated martens yielded an unexpected daylight image of a leopard cat near Chaubatia Garden. Typically nocturnal and elusive, the cat’s 11 am appearance highlights how edge habitats between forest and farmland support…...
India on e-wheels: What Indian megacities can learn from Bogotá and São Paulo’s electric bus push
2+ week, 4+ day ago (493+ words) Latin American cities have reached a milestone of 10,000 electric buses in operation across more than 80 cities in 13 countries. Santiago, São Paulo and Bogotá together account for more than 7,000 electric buses, offering lessons for Indian megacities. São Paulo has built Brazil’s…...
As severe drought hits, the UK’s food system faces crisis — here’s how to change that
2+ week, 5+ day ago (213+ words) Down To Earth The UK is in the grip of a severe drought. England and Wales received only 9-10 per cent of their normal rainfall in July, and for England it was the driest July since records began in 1836. A fifth…...