Environment

Highlights from the issue

DTE Staff

Sunita Narain's Desk: Electric vehicles: Why and How

The goal should be cleaner and lesser vehicles

Cover story: A new buzz

In several states, farmers now rent honeybees to secure a decent harvest or pick up the brush to hand-pollinate crops. This artificial substitution of pollinators raises new concerns

Column: ‘Know thy pollinators’

A beekeeper collecting honey at a temporary camp in Una district, Himachal Pradesh. Beekeepers travel throughout the year with honey boxes in search of pollen.

Our incomplete understanding of Himalayan pollinators is concerning given accelerating environmental changes, global warming, habitat fragmentation and shifting land-use patterns

Data centre: Banking on pollination

More than 87 per cent of flowering plant species rely on pollinators for reproduction and yield

Analysis: Seed saviours

A farmer at a community seed bank in Silpidi village of Dindori district, Madhya Pradesh. Farmers who take seeds from the bank return double the volume after harvest

Community seed banks in the country need technical aid, policy support to ensure food security in climate-risked times

Special report: Ominous exemptions

The latest Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention was held at Geneva, Switzerland from April 28 to May 9

Stockholm Convention sees a worrying trend of nations forcing exemptions on usage of chemicals that face a ban

Factsheet: Clear blip

For the first time in five decades, India sees a dip in life expectancy 

Civil Lines: Broken lifeline

Patna's Baansghat Crematorium at the height of the second COVID-19 wave.

COVID-19 knocked India’s rising life expectancy streak

Patently Absurd: 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