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Sunita Narain's Desk: Let’s smell the traffic

The more the congestion, the more the air pollution as vehicles idling on roads emit toxic fumes

Cover story: Game changers

Enhancing energy efficiency of just two everyday appliances—air conditioners and water pumps—could generate substantial energy savings for India and accelerate the country's progress towards net-zero emissions.

Special report: All in the name

Illustration: Yogendra Anand/ CSE

Draft UN resolution on trans-fats elimination fails to distinguish industrial and natural sources, threatening nutrition in poorer nations

Special report: Mistaken identity

A Central Zoo Authority report says confusion in animal identification might have led to selection of wrong deer species for conservation breeding

Special report: Risky overlap

Selected for offshore sand mining, Kollam is one of Kerala’s key fishing centres, accounting for nearly 20% of the state’s total fish production by value

Fisher communities in Kerala’s Kollam city protest India’s plan to commence offshore sand mining

Civil Lines: Undamming Europe

The weir and lock complex in the river Nederrijn near Driel in the Netherlands under a clear sky.

Removal of river-barriers provides opportunity to gauge how they have impacted local ecosystems

Interview: ‘Almost every middle-income country is being targeted by Big Food and its scientific agents’

Author and anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh on her book Soda Science that investigates how Coca-Cola used front groups and eminent scientists to distort science and manipulate public policies to protect its profits

Initiative: Ownership rights

Kamepur residents hoisting the flag in the forest.

From controlling wildfires to restoring forest health, several Chhattisgarh villages use Community Forest Resource Rights to usher in a new forest management regime