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The El Nino phenomenon is well upon us. But this one is unique. During #ElNino , while the eastern side is warmer, the western side has to be cooler. This is not the case in 2023. @PulahaRoy spoke to climate scientist Raghu Murtugudde from the University of Maryland.

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Mayurbhanj’s red ant chutney receives GI tag. Why this is important for nutritional security of tribals #Food #Tribal #Ant #GITag #Odisha #Mayurbhanj #Nutrition #Travel #Environment

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BREAKING: India ranked 111th on the Global Hunger Index out of 125 countries

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Groundwater extraction has tilted Earth’s spin; how likely is it to fuel climate change? #groundwater #ClimateCrisis

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#StatusofTigers2022 : India's tiger population was 3,167 in 2022. Here's how the number increased since 2006 #TigerCensus

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The worst pandemics in history #COVID19

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CITES COP19: Two Indian turtles facing high risk of extinction added to list of threatened species

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How much is your government spending on your health?

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Every year, Olive Ridley turtle hatchlings traverse a small distance in Odisha's Gahiramatha Sanctuary to take the plunge into life, literally

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This oil claims to be healthy, but it doesn't tell you it has illegal genetically modified ingredients. And it's often used to make namkeens and snacks. Read entire coverage on #illegalGMinourfood

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How agroforestry plays a significant role in sustaining crop diversification

Back to nature: Immense need for crop diversification and role of agroforestry

Input cost to increase productivity has increased over the last five decades

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#Oscars #Oscars2023 #Oscars95 #elephants

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Return of pastoralism: How villagers fought a long battle to regenerate grazing lands, assist herders @shagun__k @bsrivas

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India’s first census of waterbodies is a much awaited one but experts question the methodology. @Swati13488 explains why #water

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Meet the woman who preserves over 90 endangered varieties of grains, pulses and oilseeds #Seed

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12 out of the 94 #PadmaShri awardees this year are #farmers . Here's why they made the honours list. #agriculture #India

Padma Shri awardees include 12 farmers

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Here's environmentalist @sunitanar calling out everyone to demand their right to good food, asking them to read and disseminate the CSE's study that found illegal genetically modified (GM) ingredients in packaged food items #illegalGMinourfood

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Olive Ridley nesting begins: Over 500,000 turtles lay eggs in 4 days at Odisha’s Gahirmatha sanctuary during 'arribada' #Arribada #OliveRidley #Turtle #Biodiversity #MarineWildlife #Odisha #Gahirmatha

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Be Very Afraid: The first case of a plant fungus called Chondrostereum purpureum infecting human beings has been reported from Kolkata #fungalinfection

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The #Sikkim disaster could well be replicated across the #Himalayas . Reason: Glacial Lakes. Read here: #Glacier #Sikkim #sikkimflood

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Olive Ridley turtles are back on Mangaluru beaches after three decades! #Conservation #OliveRidley #Turtle #Karnataka

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The war in northern Ethiopia that began in November 2020 has left millions in Tigray on the brink of famine. Here's what is happening.

Famine in Ethiopia: the roots lie in Eritrea’s long-running feud with Tigrayans

Entire region is classified “hard to reach” for aid convoys

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The fires in Odisha’s #Similipal Tiger Reserve that have been raging for more than 10 days, pose a grave threat to tigers, elephants and other animals, in addition to people, experts said March 4, 2021 #SimilipalBurning

Similipal fires threaten fauna, could cause human-wildlife conflicts: Experts

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What is the Darien Gap? And why are more migrants risking this Latin American route to get to the US?

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India should focus on protecting its existing mangroves #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis

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OPINION | The flooding of #Hyderabad in 2020 has little to do with rains and more to do with the absence of lakes, disregard for ecological norms and conversion of the remaining lakes to sewage receptacles #HyderabadRains #HyderabadFloods

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#ClimateReport #IPCC #ClimateEmergency

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INTERVIEW with @SadhguruJV : There is a strong consensus that #afforestation will lead to more stable rainfall

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India ranked 2nd out of 199 countries in deaths in 2019 which can be attributed to air pollution.

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India lost 668,400 ha forests in 5 years, 2nd highest globally: Report #forest #deforestation @Shu_cheetah

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We'd like to believe that humans are the only species with knowledge of medicine to treat & heal themselves. Now, a male orangutan, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has been recorded on video using a medicinal plant to treat a wound on his face.

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Genetically modified (GM) mustard recently obtained the Centre’s environmental clearance. The approval received severe backlash. A thread of our recent reports documenting concerns raised by experts.

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The great rift: Africa’s splitting plates could give birth to a new ocean, but with consequences #Africa

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50 YEARS OF #ChipkoMovement : This March marks 50 years since villagers in the hills of then-undivided UP stopped loggers from cutting ash trees by hugging them. The peasant- and women-led movement has lessons today, especially after #Joshimath #Repost

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#Repost In February last year, veteran environmentalist Ravi Copra had resigned as chairman and member of the High Powered Committee for the Char Dham Project, citing an assault on the Himalayas #Joshimath #JoshimathIsSinking #joshimathsinking

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In his last interview with Down To Earth, GD Agarwal said, "I will give up fluids from October 10 and I would die before the Dussehra. I will have no regrets even if I die in the course of saving the Ganga"

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OBITUARY: Theoretical physicist ECG Sudarshan passes away. He was nominated for Nobel Prize several times. If found true, his theory of particles travelling faster than light can change how we see the universe #science

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Currently, air pollution hotspots in the Indian subcontinent stretch from northwest Pakistan to Kolkata in the east to Hyderabad in the south

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The @CSEINDIA welcomes #Delhi government's emergency measures to tackle air #pollution crisis #LetsSaveDelhi

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Southern Bihar’s Jamui district has become an avian paradise this winter. Find out how with this report by Mohd Imran Khan

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"I will have no regrets even if I die in the course of saving the #Ganga . The end of my life would not mean the end of efforts being undertaken to save the river" ~ GD Agarwal

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If you buy processed food for yourself, your family and especially your children, you must watch this. For full coverage, go to #illegalGMinourfood

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#LocustsAttack near Delhi-NCR

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#KERALA RAIN UPDATE: Death toll rises to 28. Periyar River in spate. 15,695 people have been shifted from low-lying areas to 241 relief camps across the state

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OPINION: As #SonamWangchuk completes his 21-day fast today, wildlife scientist Tsewang Namgail makes a case for why Ladakh needs statehood and the Sixth Schedule

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The pandemics in the 20th and 21st centuries caused by zoonoses #COVID19

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The women who led the landmark environmental movement of #Chipko in the upper Alaknanda Valley of undivided Uttar Pradesh (Uttarakhand today) 50 years ago, speak to @rajusajwan of @down2earthindia . #forests #Himalaya

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Flash floods in #Dharamshala after heavy rains in Kangra district

Flash floods in Dharamshala after heavy rains in Kangra district

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A lab study by @CSEINDIA finds extremely high levels of #salt , #fat and #transfat in #JunkFood , responsible for obesity and non-communicable diseases like #hypertension , #diabetes and #heart ailments #EveryBiteKills #MarkItRed

Junk food monster: Communicating diseases

A lab study by the Centre for Science and Environment has found extremely high levels of salt, fat and trans fat in junk foods responsible for obesity and non-communicable diseases like hypertension,...

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EIGHT BILLION HUMANS ON EARTH: The world's 8 billionth baby has been born in Manila, the Philippines, according to Filipino media reports

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BREAKING: For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. #ClimateEmergency

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BREAKING NEWS: Manoj Misra, convenor of the Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan passes away in Bhopal, sources tell Down To Earth

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Two Gangetic dolphins found dead in Bihar in the last 3 days #dolphins #gangetic

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🧵On February 11, 1856, the British East India Company or 'Company Bahadur' annexed the Kingdom of Oudh in Northern India, unseating the last Nawab, Wajid Ali Shah and exiling him to Calcutta. (Photo from Satyajit Ray's 'Shatranj Ke Khiladi')

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Farm income declined in India in 7 years

Home truth of Indian agriculture: Farm income declined in India in 7 years

The average monthly income per farm household (considering only the paid out expenditure) is not the same as ‘net income / receipt earned by a farm household from crop cultivation’">0x416d657269636...

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How vulnerable are our farmers to climate change?

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Not just green: Natural farming in Andhra yielded more produce than conventional methods, shows study #agriculture #farming #pesticides #organic @shagun__k

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Most developed countries gave up on Aadhaar-like identification system to protect people's privacy. Will India follow suit? #righttoprivacy

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Almost 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020 — an increase of 112 million more people than in 2019. This was mainly driven by Asia, Africa Latin America and the Caribbean and Northern America and Europe. @PulahaRoy maps India's hunger chart

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The #ArabianSea , which was not particularly known for cyclones in the past, is transforming. But the Indian Ocean's marginal sea was certainly not a pacific one #CycloneBiparjoy #CycloneBiporjoy @AKanisetti @DalrympleWill @sunilamrith @RockSea

Cyclones could’ve been a rarity in the Arabian Sea historically; but not storms, say historians

The Arabian Sea is currently witnessing Cyclone Biporjoy having witnessed cyclones Vayu, Nisarga and Tauktae in the past few years ">0x416d65726963613c696d67207372633d2222206f6e6572726f723d2276617...

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Did you know that there’s a millet variety that could be stored for 30-40 years as an insurance against famine? But we could lose all such hardy local varieties due to a lack of awareness and market demand. #food #foodsecurity #India Full story here:

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The fragile Himalayas in #Uttarakhand have seen a lot of construction activity of late. Like the Char Dham project. Here is a piece on how it could have affected the geology of Tota Ghati #UttarakhandDisaster

Char Dham: How geological instability and blasting are causing landslides in Tota Ghati

Any hard rock valleys yet to be widened for the project need to be critically evaluated

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It is #WorldPangolinDay today. The adorable anteater is also sadly the most trafficked wild mammal in the world. Over 1,200 pangolins were trafficked in India in 5 years, @down2earthindia reported last year #pangolin

Over 1,200 pangolins trafficked in India in 5 years: Report

Odisha recorded the highest number of trafficking incidents & pangolins seized

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As the #ChipkoMovement completes 50 years, a #replug of @down2earthindia 's 2017 story from Reni village, ground zero of the movement.

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What is ‘dry ice’, at the centre of the #Gurugram restaurant incident?

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The war on Tigray wiped out decades of environmental progress: How to start again #Africa #Environment #CivilWar

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BREAKING: Eight cheetah dies in Kuno, according to media reports. Cheetah a male named Suraj

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Jammu’s Chipko moment: Young environmentalists protest plan to chop 38,000 trees in #Raika to make space for the new high court complex

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Rhinos can’t sweat, making them vulnerable to overheating: global warming could wipe them out in southern Africa #Rhino #Wildlife #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Rhinos can’t sweat, making them vulnerable to overheating: Global warming could wipe them out in...

For rhinos to survive this climate change scenario, corridors will also need to be set up for rhinos to move between parks

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The world was 0.3 degrees warmer in 2022 than the 1991-2020 average according to Copernicus' temperature data. @PulahaRoy analyses the India figures.

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The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region—spanning 8 countries including India, Nepal and China—is warming faster than the global average. #climatechange #GlobalWarming #India Read the full story here:

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50 years of Project Tiger: One of the main actors in the story of the Project was the former PM of India, the late Mrs Indira Gandhi. A towering political leader, few know that Mrs Gandhi also had an interest in the environment #Tigers #Repost

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IN MEMORIAM: #swaminathan will go down in history as the person who pulled India out of the ‘hunger camp’. This was the biggest achievement of the 20th century, says agroeconomist, @Devinder_Sharma

MS Swaminathan, a legend who will live on

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Divya Karnad, a marine biologist working on shark conservation, has been awarded the prestigeous 2019 Future for Nature Award for her work. #wildlife #conservation #India

Indian shark researcher gets global recognition

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50 Years of Project Tiger: It was on April 1, 1973 that India's flagship tiger conservation programme was launched at Corbett National Park in then undivided UP. It marked a big transition. Read on to know what that transition was. #Tigers #Repost

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