Down To Earth - January 16, 2025

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2025 - Trends and technologies that will shape the year

BISHNOIS V DELHIITES: TWO DIFFERENT MINDSETS

FILM STAR Salman Khan's arrest in Jodhpur for killing a chinkara, an endangered animal, and Sahib Singh Verma's resignation as chief minister of Delhi are both developments that hold a message for environmentalists and all those engaged in environmental management.

3 mins

Preserving a voice

Non-profit in Madhya Pradesh documents Korku language, makes education accessible for the tribal community

2 mins

Europe faces Russian natural gas supply cuts

UKRAINE'S PRIME Minister Denys Shmyhal said on December 16, 2024, that its gas transit agreement with Russia will expire on January 1, 2025, and will not be renewed. The agreement was to allow transit of natural gas to Europe amid the RussiaUkraine conflict.

1 min

Commons in crisis

A landmark 2011 Supreme Court ruling to protect shared resources deepens struggles for India's marginalised communities

5 mins

Scope for redemption

Two recent reports underline the need for different strategies for a more sustainable world

4 mins

Deadly discharge

Residents of an industrial cluster blame effluent and sewage treatment plants for discharging poorly treated water that contaminates the area, causes skin diseases

4 mins

A MAKE OR BREAK YEAR

Expect some stiff targets, radical policy measures and rapid innovations as polycrisis reaches a crescendo this year

10+ mins

Distorted picture

India's groundwater recovery may be misleading, as new assessment methods inflate annual recharge figures and discontinue on-ground verification

2 mins

US drug regulator faces Trump heat

FAILED REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is making more news now than during his doomed attempt to get the party nomination for president. Ramaswamy's decision to throw in the towel and back Donald Trump after his campaign went nowhere showed acumen, the kind he is famous for in the investment world.

4 mins

'Story of human origin is still not figured out or over'

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a partial skeleton amid the barren desert landscape of northern Ethiopia transformed our understanding of where humans came from, and how we developed into Homo sapiens. \"Lucy\" was first spotted on November 24, 1974, by the American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his student assistant Tom Gray. Named after the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, a popular song in the their team's camp at the time, it was immediately clear she was a female, because of her small adult size, and that she had walked upright, unlike chimpanzees. Lucy was also very old-at almost 3.2 million years, she was anointed as the then-earliest known (distant) ancestor of modern humans. Over the following decades, rather fittingly given her name, she became a \"paleo-rock star\", going on a US tour from 2006 following a deal with the Ethiopian authorities.

7 mins

CLIMATE SHAPES SPECIES

Gradual changes in a population that lives ina region with environmental shifts give rise to new species

4 mins

CLIMATE SHAPES SPECIES

Gradual changes in a population that lives in a region with environmental shifts give rise to new species

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