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Down To Earthby Simon Blanchette27d ago
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns that rapidly advancing AI could be misused for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, citing incidents where autonomous agents breached systems and coordinated online.
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi27d ago
Summary Monsoon retreat begins from northwest India, but heavy rain and thunderstorms continue across several states, keeping weather conditions unsettled.
Down To Earthby Krystelle Dsouza27d ago
In Tulyachapada village in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, solar-powered drip irrigation has helped farmers access water that was earlier close by but difficult to bring to their fields.
Down To Earthby Dilkhush Meena28d ago
MCD’s Karol Bagh Zone implemented the Dust Free Delhi campaign across major Public Works Department roads more than 60 feet wide.
Down To Earthby Narasimha Reddy Donthi28d ago
India’s Eco-Sensitive Zones, meant as protective buffers around national parks, largely exist only on paper.
Down To Earthby Vanhishikha Vyas28d ago
Australia threw away about 3.2 million tonnes of plastic in 2023-24, close to 115 kilogrammes a person. Of that, 446,000 tonnes were recovered.
Down To Earthby Latha Jishnu28d ago
Lawsuits against the biggest artificial intelligence (AI) companies have been piling up in the US since 2020, covering a range of alleged misdemeanours from copyright infringement to deaths of...
Down To Earthby Sunita Narain28d ago
As I write this, over 1,300 lives are confirmed lost and many thousands are still missing in the floods in Nepal, as the mighty Himalayas came down as rubble.
Down To Earthby Anjali Nair28d ago
India has found microplastics in rivers, wetlands, drinking water, food, salt, sugar and air, but a clear regulatory framework is still emerging.
Down To Earthby DTE Staff28d ago
Nearly half of the world’s migratory bird species are in decline and one in nine faces extinction, according to BirdLife International’s latest State of the World’s Birds report.
Down To Earthby Rajat Ghai28d ago
The article examines the backlash against Dhirendra Krishna Shashtri’s call to avoid fish and meat during Durga Puja, contrasting his stance with Shakta scriptures and Bengal’s cultural practices.
Down To Earthby DTE Staff29d ago
The 18th BRICS Summit, underway in New Delhi, has issued a Declaration which covers a wide range of climate issues — from clean technology to forests — and reaffirms the group’s commitment to the...
Down To Earthby Puja Das29d ago
BRICS leaders at the New Delhi Summit adopted a photovoltaic industry action plan and broader clean-tech agenda, linking solar manufacturing, hydrogen, smart grids and energy storage with...
Down To Earthby Puja Das29d ago
BRICS leaders at the New Delhi Summit backed a BRICS Carbon Markets Partnership to share expertise, build capacity and link carbon markets with climate finance, while firmly opposing unilateral...
Down To Earthby Preetha Banerjee12 Sept 2026
‘Hopeful genres like solarpunk can help bring climate discussions to dinner tables‘ Some Indigenous communities such as the Maori of the Aotearoa New Zealand understand time as a non-linear concept...
Down To Earthby Ashutosh Kumar Thakur12 Sept 2026
‘Give each major Indian written language the chance to shine as a way of expressing new ideas, especially in science and tech’ Long before India became a global economy, it had already travelled...
Down To Earthby Nannapaneni Maneesh12 Sept 2026
In Rayalaseema’s dry fields, farmers are reimagining harvests by valuing bees, spiders, fungi and soil life as much as vegetables.
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware11 Sept 2026
Record wildfires on Indonesia’s Borneo and Sumatra, intensified by El Niño and human-driven slash-and-burn, have scorched nearly 300,000 hectares and unleashed thick haze across South East Asia.
Down To Earthby Dilkhush Meena11 Sept 2026
Karol Bagh Zone of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi removed about 6,333 metric tonnes of legacy waste from railway corridors through a partnership with the Railway Department.
Down To Earthby Madhumita Paul11 Sept 2026
Africa recorded 183 polio detections between January and July 2026, a 33% decline compared with 2024, according to WHO.
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