downtoearth.org.inadded August 2026
Down To Earthby Shagun19d ago
The southwest monsoon has begun its withdrawal but, as the rainy season draws to a close, drought conditions persist across more than half of India, with scientists warning that the current spell...
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi19d ago
Deep depression over Bay of Bengal may bring extremely heavy rainfall to Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana and Chhattisgarh today.
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla19d ago
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries that signify the health of Earth have transgressed from the safe operating limits with all the transgressed boundaries showing worsening trends, according to...
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware20d ago
Gaurav, cheetah who arrived from Namibia as among the first eight brought to India for introduction died on September 21, 2026.
Down To Earthby Sunita Narain20d ago
Soil is the next gold — this is as down-to-earth as it can be. This stepped-on material, which we take for granted, holds the key to so much we need to change in our world — from increased...
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla20d ago
2025 was the fourth consecutive year in which every major glaciated region recorded a net loss in ice mass, according to the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) latest State of Global Water...
Down To Earthby Dayanidhi21d ago
Monsoon retreats from northwest India as temperatures rise, while a strengthening Bay of Bengal system threatens heavy rain across several states.
Down To Earthby Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh21d ago
The World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) concluded in Gandhinagar last week. Across the week-long event, circular economy (CE) was the central theme in nearly every session, but every time it was...
Down To Earthby Susan Chacko21d ago
Greater Chennai Corporation told NGT that around 950 kg of dead fish were removed from the Kosasthalaiyar river on August 16, 2026, followed by another 1.45 tonnes on August 17.
Down To Earthby Himanshu Nitnaware21d ago
A 16-year study from Lord Howe Island found record levels of plastic ingestion in fledgling sable shearwaters.
Down To Earthby Shagun21d ago
The world doesn’t need to choose between feeding a growing population and restoring the planet’s soils.
Down To Earthby Akshit Sangomla21d ago
World Weather Attribution scientists say fossil fuel-driven warming played a role in the occurrence and intensity of Nepal’s August 26 cascading flood disaster.
Down To Earthby DTE Staff23d ago
Twenty years ago—on August 24, 2006—some 2,500 members of the International Astronomical Union in its general assembly in Prague, Czech Republic voted on a definition that earthlings lacked: “What...
Down To Earthby Bhagirath23d ago
Permission has been granted to fell sal trees affected by the sal borer insect in the Amarkantak region of Dindori and Anuppur districts in Madhya Pradesh.
Down To Earthby Shagun25d ago
More than 1.5 billion people experienced at least a month of risky heat between June and August 2026, with those temperatures made significantly more likely by human-induced climate change...
Down To Earthby Madhumita Paul25d ago
Forests and trees play a crucial role in providing nutritious food, and more than 5 billion people worldwide rely on them to some extent for their livelihoods, yet their contribution to feeding...
Down To Earthby Vivek Mishra25d ago
Six states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Haryana — have signed an agreement on the long-pending Kishau Multipurpose Project in the Yamuna basin.
Down To Earthby Priyanshu Ranjan25d ago
India hosted the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi on September 12-13, 2026, under the theme ‘Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability’.
Down To Earthby Puja Das25d ago
UN leaders face mounting pressure to move beyond rhetoric as Nepal’s deadly glacier collapse and record global disasters expose the cost of climate inaction.
Down To Earthby DTE Staff26d ago
Cancer treatment for children in India is concentrated in large cities, forcing thousands of poorer families to live far from home, often in unsafe and unhygienic conditions.
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