Science
Down To Earth
RESILIENT RURAL FUTURES
Ambuja Foundation Tackles Climate Vulnerability Head On ...
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June 01, 2025
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Sustainable cycles
Women in Himachal Pradesh switch from plastic sanitary pads to reusable menstrual hygiene products for better waste management
2 min |
June 01, 2025
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Uniting the Ecosystem: Empowering Smallholder Farmers and Solving India's Water Crisis
Smallholder farmers are key to solving India's water crisis, accounting for 86% of farming households. Agricultural consumption accounts for 75-90% of India's freshwater use.
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June 01, 2025
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WHO IS REALLY DEVELOPED
A new development metric ranks countries based on their living standards that can be scaled globally without breaking planetary limits
3 min |
June 01, 2025
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India’s CRISPR feat, with borrowed tools
ICAR has developed genome-edited varieties of rice, but has used patented CRISPR technology that will entail huge costs
4 min |
June 01, 2025
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Ominous exemptions
Stockholm Convention sees a worrying trend of nations forcing exemptions on usage of chemicals that face a ban
3 min |
June 01, 2025
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MUNSHI IN POLICY
Literature is more relevant now than ever, as the world gets alienated and isolated because of machinated realities
4 min |
May 16, 2025
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CONSERVATION AS A LITERARY LEITMOTIF
Realistic adventure novels with conservation and environment as the background shape children's perceptions about issues that matter
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May 16, 2025
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RESURRECTION OF A METAPHOR
In literature, new trends, new questions and new proximities regarding nature are being clearly articulated
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May 16, 2025
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FEELINGS DIE WITH LANGUAGE
When a language dies, the entire society withers away. All kinds of knowledge about the environment is lost
4 min |
May 16, 2025
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REBIRTH OF COEXISTENCE
The portrayal of nature on the cinematic screen leaves us as silent, merely applauding spectators
5 min |
May 16, 2025
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POETRY AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY IN PALESTINE
Through poetry and through the care of olive, fig and orange orchards, Palestinian people assert their indigenous identity and relationship with the living ecologies of the landscape
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May 16, 2025
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LITERATURE, A TOOL TO FIGHT CLIMATE EMERGENCY
We often overlook the role of the social sciences and humanities, including arts and literature, in addressing climate change and other environmental problems
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May 16, 2025
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FARM FOLKLORE
Agriculture has stemmed from folk science or traditions of environmental conservation, documented orally
5 min |
May 16, 2025
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OF POETRY OF EARTH
The contribution of Telugu poets in writings with environment as the central theme is commendable
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May 16, 2025
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NATURAL EPICS
Classical Tamil literature is an example of language’s ‘umbilical cord’ relationship with nature
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May 16, 2025
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AS IF A WHOLE CONTINENT OF HUMAN HISTORY IS GETTING SUBMERGED
There is very little chance that natural languages created by humans in past eras will continue to exist in their current form
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May 16, 2025
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THE CHRONICLER REAFFIRMS
We must incorporate politics in our everyday world-not party politics, but societal values that cherish inclusion and justice. After reporting for 33 years, this knowledge is now part of our DNA and is being reinforced through the writings on our times
3 min |
May 16, 2025
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THE PENS HAVE NOT TIRED
Poets, authors and non-fiction writers of our time consider all living beings and plants as equal citizens of the earth and raise a strong voice against their destruction
6 min |
May 16, 2025
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LANGUAGE OF HUNGER, ECO-COLONISATION
Devastation of nature and plight of humans have been dominant discourses in poetry and fiction
5 min |
May 16, 2025
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FROZEN IN TIME
The world is transforming rapidly, yet our literary focus remains tethered to familiar grounds
2 min |
May 16, 2025
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Guardians of groves
How women of an Uttarakhand village successfully revived a lost forest
3 min |
May 01, 2025
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The missing heart of pandemic treaty
The Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System that is central to the treaty is an annex, with details still to be worked out
4 min |
May 01, 2025
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Catch them young
A school in Odisha offers first-hand experience of sustainable living and resource conservation to children
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May 01, 2025
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OUT OF WILDERNESS
The wild seasonal fruit tendu is nutritious and must be mainstreamed with supporting policies and technologies
3 min |
May 01, 2025
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Invisible scars
Climate change and land-use changes exacerbate gully erosion, which is a major driver of land degradation across the world
3 min |
May 01, 2025
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India's landholdings shrink, food demand soars
SHRINKING LANDHOLDINGS and rising food demand are shaping a new agricultural landscape in India, highlights the latest policy paper by National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR-NIAP).
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May 01, 2025
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ORIGIN OF PROXIES
The revival of dire wolf by an American biotechnology company proves that it is possible to create proxies of extinct species through cutting-edge genetic editing and cloning technologies. But can this actually fix the extinction crisis?
10+ min |
May 01, 2025
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A sizeable threat
Increased interaction with human habitations has resulted in elephants contracting diseases not usually associated with the animal
3 min |
May 01, 2025
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Survival mode
MARCHING IN THE DARK SHINES A LIGHT ON MAHARASHTRA'S RESILIENT 'FARM WIDOWS' AND THE STRENGTH THEY FIND FROM MUTUAL SUPPORT
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