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Daily weather tracker: Red alert in Assam-Meghalaya, Orange-Yellow rain warning across 15+ states

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


Climate change is shifting childhood malaria hotspots across Africa, finds study

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


The Sunita Narain Show: Why do we need an energy and economic sense for survival?

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


Kerala's latest floods show state yet to internalise lessons from 2018 on ecological degradation and unsustainable land use

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


AI could help developing countries reduce inequality, but only if basics are in place, World Bank says

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


The Danger of a Single Story

New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her brilliant TED Talk, put it succinctly: "Show people as one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become." She was po... Read More


Former IATA head Willie Walsh takes charge as IndiGo CEO

Bangladesh, Aug. 4 -- Rahul Bhatia, Managing Director of IndiGo, welcomed Walsh to the organization, noting that the airline is entering its third decade and is poised for the next phase of its growth... Read More


Ashwani Nayar wins Asia's most eminent GM award in Singapore

Bangladesh, Aug. 4 -- The honor was conferred by CMO Asia and the World Forum of Hospitality at the 17th World Hospitality Leadership Awards, held at Pan Pacific Singapore on August 3. In an official... Read More


New Google passkey attack could bypass fingerprint protection on infected PCs

India, Aug. 4 -- Passkeys are meant to end many of the risks tied to passwords. They resist phishing, cannot be reused across sites, and do not expose a shared secret that attackers can simply steal f... Read More


India's distributed solar capacity jumps to 31.5 GW, but regulatory hurdles slow wider clean energy push

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