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1 week ago | 
htsyndication.com | Nandita Banerji
New Delhi, June 17 -- Ozone, not particulate matter, has emerged as the dominant pollutant in Delhi's air this summer - a major shift that highlights a growing and poorly addressed public health threat in the National Capital Region (NCR).
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3 weeks ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
On World Environment Day 2025, as governments and corporations tout green pledges, a quieter truth demands attention: Women across the globe — and particularly in climate-vulnerable countries like India — are bearing the brunt of a crisis they did little to cause. A growing body of research has highlighted that of its devastating impacts.
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3 weeks ago | 
htsyndication.com | Nandita Banerji
New Delhi, June 5 -- On World Environment Day 2025, as governments and corporations tout green pledges, a quieter truth demands attention: Women across the globe - and particularly in climate-vulnerable countries like India - are bearing the brunt of a crisis they did little to cause. A growing body of research has highlighted that women disproportionately bear the brunt of its devastating impacts.
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1 month ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
Nearly one in three Indian women and more than one in ten Indian men were sexually abused before the age of 18, according to a new global study published in the journal The Lancet, spotlighting a harrowing crisis of child sexual abuse that often begins early in life. The research, conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, analysed data spanning 204 countries over three decades, from 1990 to 2023.
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1 month ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
More than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war in October 2023, according to a new estimate released by UN Women. The analysis painted a devastating picture of the ongoing conflict, with women and girls dying at an average rate of one every hour during Israeli attacks. The toll included thousands of mothers, the agency said, leaving behind children, families, and communities shattered by grief.
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1 month ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
“Compared to the largest event of the modern satellite era — the 2005 particle storm — the ancient 12350 BC event was over 500 times more intense, according to our estimates,” Golubenko said in a press statement. Solar particle storms are rare eruptions that shower the Earth with high-energy particles, triggering elevated levels of cosmogenic isotopes such as radiocarbon.
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1 month ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
Even though the LHC has since ramped up its power and doubled gold production in Run 3, the total amount remains far too small for commercial use. “It is impressive to see that our detectors can handle head-on collisions producing thousands of particles, while also being sensitive to collisions where only a few particles are produced at a time, enabling the study of electromagnetic ‘nuclear transmutation’ processes,” Marco Van Leeuwen, ALICE spokesperson, said in a statement.
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2 months ago | 
shorturl.at | Nandita Banerji
This week marked a celestial milestone as the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 35th anniversary. Launched on April 24, 1990 aboard the space shuttle Discovery, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) / European Space Agency (ESA) observatory revolutionised astronomy by peering into the universe with a clarity once thought impossible. To honour its decades of discovery, here are some of the most captivating images captured by the telescope.
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2 months ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
“The climate crisis is not ‘gender neutral’. Women and girls bear the brunt of its impacts, which amplify existing gender inequalities and pose unique threats to their livelihoods, health and safety,” stated UN Women. The report also noted that gender-based violence was frequently under-reported, with only about seven per cent of survivors filing formal complaints.
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2 months ago | 
downtoearth.org.in | Nandita Banerji
Road verges may hold the key to rewilding our cities, according to a new study from Singapore that finds these overlooked strips of greenery can boost butterfly populations—even in concrete-heavy urban jungles. The research, published in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning, revealed that floral diversity and structural complexity within road verges increased both the abundance and richness of butterfly species.
