Science
Down To Earth
Bizarre, Serious, Jocular
Janaki Lenin captures the animal (and human) world in all its mystique and charm.
2 min |
September 01, 2018
Down To Earth
Drowning In Debris
Construction and demolition waste is piling up across India. Regulations are in place, but recycling is yet to gain momentum.AVIKAL SOMVANSHI breaks down the cartouche of waste mismanagement
9 min |
June 16, 2019
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Why We Need A Circular Economy
Reusing products is not only necessary for a sustainable future, but also makes business sense
4 min |
June 16, 2019
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Crisis Management
Jared Diamond's latest book espouses that nations can come out of a crisis just the way people do Ishan Kukreti
3 min |
July 01, 2019
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Curbing True Lies
The answer may not be to enact laws to ban fake news, as Singapore has recently done.
3 min |
July 01, 2019
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Scorcher
Heat waves have swept 23 Indian states and union territories claiming lives and throttling livelihoods. They are breaching boundaries across the world and are also becoming more intense. What can we do to cope with it?
10+ min |
July 01, 2019
Down To Earth
Wild Delight
Sohphie, a sweet-and-sour fruit, marks the arrival of spring in Meghalaya. It is relished raw as well as in pickles Shalini Dhyani.
3 min |
July 01, 2019
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The Next Ten To Go Dry
Bengaluru, Beijing, Mexico City and Istanbul are some of the cities that are headed towards Day Zero.
9 min |
March 15, 2018
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Urban Deserts
An estimated 400 million people currently live in cities with perennial water shortage. The number is slated to go up to 1 billion by 2050 due to rising urban population and the impact of climate change.
4 min |
March 15, 2018
Down To Earth
Let Cauvery Be
Deforestation, urbanisation, illegal mining and dumping of effluents along the river has left the basin battered and bruised. Decades of degradation has led to an unprecedented crisis for the 15 million who live on its banks.Jitendra travels along the course of one of India’s biggest rivers to understand why its level hit a record low this year
10 min |
August 01, 2019
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One Tool To Track It All
Can the humongous online data generated in the job guarantee scheme be a real time index for rural distress?
4 min |
August 01, 2019
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Nowhere To Flow
Over 60 years after the country got its first plan to rejuvenate the rivers, not a single basin has been spared from over-exploitation
7 min |
August 01, 2019
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Time To Talk
Gap in communication between India and neighbouring Nepal is an endemic problem that worsens Bihar floods
4 min |
August 01, 2019
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War zone Cauvery
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are once again at logger heads over the sharing of the Cauvery waters. Why have the successive agreements failed to resolve the century-long dispute?
10+ min |
October 1, 2016
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Plan B For The Planet
The world cannot afford a 2o C rise. The climate change goal must be fixed at 1.5o C so that we get a chance to avert the worst impacts
2 min |
October 16, 2018
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Blind Spot in Namami Gange
Two flagship programmes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are working at cross-purposes. By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. These tanks and pits would produce 180 million litres of faecal sludge every day, which will eventually find its way into the Ganga, defeating Namami Gange. It's time the Central, state and local sanitation programmes recognised faecal sludge management as a priority to ensure a clean Ganga
10+ min |
December 16, 2016
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Reluctant To Upgrade
Zero liquid discharge technologies can help textile dyeing units recycle water and reduce effluents released into rivers. Why are they resisting?
3 min |
September 01, 2018
Down To Earth
Live Life Farm Style
Want to live in a city and grow your own food in a village nearby? There are companies that can help.
3 min |
September 01, 2018
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Prisoner Of Contradictions
India's only wetland cat is under multiple threats.
4 min |
September 01, 2018
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Again, Stop Talking About GDP
India missed another opportunity to shed its obsession with a bad measure of economy.
2 min |
September 01, 2018
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Environment Of Poverty
The world's poor population is getting concentrated in ecologically fragile areas
2 min |
October 1, 2018
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Defining Emotion
A new book challenges our assumptions about emotions
2 min |
October 1, 2018
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A Bite Of Goodness
Housing associations are setting up community refrigerators to reduce food wastage and feed the needy
4 min |
October 1, 2018
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On Active Mode
After faltering for three years, India's largest test drive for uranium contamination in groundwater shows signs of revival
3 min |
October 1, 2018
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First, Fast, But...
India's debut farm investment support scheme was rolled out in Telangana but a large section of the farming community has been left out
7 min |
August 01, 2018
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Not A Sweet Bargain
The price of the totapuri mango has crashed due to low demand for its pulp, leaving farmers to dump produce on roads
4 min |
August 01, 2018
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Business Above All
In the garb of streamlining green clearances, the Union government has sidelined communities and diluted environmental regulations over the past four years
6 min |
August 01, 2018
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Unwrap The E-commerce Waste
As India catches up on online shopping, we need regulations to minimise the waste that is generated from packaging the products
3 min |
August 01, 2018
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Swachh Bharat Mission Echoes Sterilisation Campaign Of 70s
A new book exposes the lacunae in the way India manages its waste and recommends changes in practices and attitudes toward waste. ROBIN JEFFREY and ASSA DORON,authors of the book, speak to SWATI SINGH SAMBYAL on the layered challenges of managing solid waste
4 min |
August 01, 2018
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Look Beyond The Loo
In fast-urbanising Africa, the governments must rework their usual toilet building strategies to ensure safe disposal of waste.
4 min |