India, Aug. 5 -- The National Green Tribunal directed the Central Pollution Control Board to respond to allegations of large-scale illegal fly ash dumping by Vedanta Limited in Jharsuguda, Odisha. Th... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- Around 215,943 hectares (ha) of forestland was approved for diversion for non-forest use between the period, 2014-15 and 2025-26. Nearly 62 per cent of this land was cleared for minin... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- NASA is tracking a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage that is expected to crash into the Moon around 06:35 GMT, or about 12:05pm IST. The rocket part was launched in January 2025... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- Assam and Meghalaya face red alert as extremely heavy rainfall threatens flooding, landslides and widespread disruptions across vulnerable northeastern regions. Uttarakhand witnesses... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- A new study led by researchers at Yale University School of Public Health reveals that climate change is reshaping the geography of childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, increa... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- Heat is intense; rain when it falls is extreme; there is devastation of life; of infrastructure. This is the impact of a changing climate; let's be clear on this. But the question is ... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- Eight years on from the deadly 2018 floods, Kerala has been deluged again. This time, experts Down To Earth spoke to say the mathematics of floods in the state has changed drastically... Read More
India, Aug. 5 -- Ahilyanagar, Beed, Dharashiv, Sangli and Solapur have emerged as Maharashtra's most vulnerable flash drought hotspots, according to a 44-year study. The semi-arid districts recorded ... Read More
India, Aug. 4 -- Jobs in high-income countries are more than three times as likely to face automation risk from generative AI as those in low- and middle-income countries, according to a World Bank re... Read More
India, Aug. 4 -- India's distributed solar capacity has increased more than 17 times to 31.5 GW in financial year (FY) 2026 from 1.8 gigawatts (GW) in FY2018, according to a new report. This growth wa... Read More