Can activism check Big Pharma’s profit motives?

As prices of life-saving drugs skyrocket, people from diverse fields are getting together to fight Big Pharma

World Food Day: Preserving food diversity vital to achieve zero hunger by 2030

Increasing production of staple crops such as wheat, rice and maize cannot meet the rising food demand. That is why we need to fall back on traditional foods

World Food Day: Achieving zero hunger by 2030 difficult, not impossible

Fighting hunger is a global mission and zero hunger is also one of the main Sustainable Development Goals, achieving which requires strong determination and commitment from individual nations

Is Swachh Bharat Mission ensuring waste segregation systems?

Segregation is still not being followed in its true spirit across India due to the lack of adequate end-to-end infrastructure for waste segregation 

E-Waste Day: 82% of India's e-waste is personal devices

The first International E-Waste Day is being celebrated across 20 countries by 40 different organisations worldwide to raise awareness on e-waste issues, collection, recycling

The wake up call

It’s time we understood that the IPCC's report could be an underestimate of the kind of dangers that await a warmed world and stopped questioning the science of climate change

Emerging cross-species infections are killing lions and humans

Infectious agents causing life-threatening diseases are spreading to new hosts, and human actions, ranging from dairy farming to tourism, are making matters worse

Measuring sustainability through inclusive wealth

United Nations Environment’s latest report suggests that the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI), rather than GDP is better suited to capture a nation’s capacity to create and maintain the well-being of its people over time

IPCC Report: We need behavioural change, not climate change

While stringent legislation and progressive policy changes are crucial for inducing action and limiting global warming, we, as citizens and consumers, need to change too

How these two remote districts in Andhra are tackling wild elephant intrusions

The forest department in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram, which border Odisha, are doing their best to manage pachyderms that regularly stray from Odisha. But they need local support

IPCC Special Report: Climate adaptation needs multi-level support

Adaptation is a local process that needs involvement of local authorities and communities in designing and implementing adaptation policies

IPCC Special Report: Climate risks require India to rethink its approach

The report warns of increased risk of coastal flooding, heatwaves, food scarcity and vector-borne diseases

IPCC 1.5 Report: Mitigation pathways clear, but countries need to commit

“Far-reaching transitions” in energy, land, infrastructure and industrial systems are needed

IPCC Special Report: Scientific consensus must form basis for political action

It is the integrity of the scientific process that must take precedence over politics, rather than the other way round

Coal liquefaction: India’s ticket to energy independence?

The Indian government should facilitate in bringing leading foreign companies investing in domestic Coal-To-Liquid projects with private Indian players so that India can overcome crude oil shortage

Revisiting Gandhi in the age of social media

For the Mahatma, “science without humanity” was one of the "seven deadly sins", due to which, people could become slaves or victims to technological colonisation. It is something that is really happening in this "Age of Selfies"

IPCC Special Report: Why sector-specific vision for 1.5°C is important

Sector-based analysis in IPCC Special Report offers an alternative vision for limiting warming to 1.5°C

US trading on thin ice

As Trump escalates the trade war with China, the key question is what constitutes theft of intellectual property

World's poor mostly reside in ecologically fragile areas

Looking at how poverty has reduced and where, it is clear that economic growth alone will not lead to poverty eradication. Global efforts must factor in the ecological reasons behind poverty

The beginning of the end of Andaman & Nicobar’s Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups

The Indian government’s recent removal of Restricted Area Permit from 29 islands in the archipelago reeks of avarice and tokenism, and could spell ultimate doom for its indigenous peoples

Sabarimala verdict paves way for discussion on menstruation, religion

Since religion is a product of society, taboos may vanish with changing mentality, only if people open their minds to it