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Sunita Narain’s Desk: US is back with a vengeance

With the US’ new brown-energy policy, keeping the world below 1.5°C warming looks nearly impossible

Patently Absurd: US tariffs on drugs and the end of WTO

Trump’s plan to levy duties on pharma violates WTO rules, but there is no recourse as the trade regulator is dysfunctional

Cover story: Deadly dust

Millions of Indians work in dusty mines, factories and construction sites, facing a deadly yet underreported lung disease called silicosis

Column: ‘Ramming mass industry is fatal for workers’

Workers in this sector can develop silicosis within just eight months, says Samit Kumar Carr of Occupational Safety and Health Association of Jharkhand

Special Report: Promising start

Ravindra Mawi of Matnoura village in Uttar Pradesh has used sexed semen to impregnate his cow, Lakshmi, increasing the chances of a female calf by 90 per cent.

Sex-sorted semen technology can revolutionise India’s dairy sector. But its impact on biodiversity must not be ignored

Factsheet: Still sinking

Evidence of continuous subsidence at Joshimath

Analysis: ‘More human-made disasters seen now’

Shekhar Pathak is a historian, author and founder of People’s Association for Himalayan Area Research or PAHAR

The past decade saw the most drastic changes in Uttarakhand along the route of Askot-Arakot Abhiyan, says historian Shekhar Pathak

Civil Lines: Life in debt

Soaring public debt is squeezing countries’ budgets for health, education and climate action