Union Budget 2021-22: How significant is it in the time of COVID-19?

Nirmala Sitharaman needs to announce bold measures for undertaking additional public spending on an urgent basis

Dinosaurs may have ‘flashed’ each other with their bottoms, newly discovered fossil shows

Evidence certainly suggests that hundreds of millions of years ago, dinosaurs flashed their behinds as a form of communication

Punjab, Chandigarh have most senior citizens with ocular morbidities: LASI

Comprehensive studies are needed to study changing trends in eye-related problems to reduce the instances of resultant eye diseases

How Kenya’s new personal data protection law could affect researchers

The law requires express, explicit, unequivocal, free, specific and informed consent to personal data processing from the data subjects

The orphans of the Fourth Revolution

With an estimated 85 million jobs to be lost to automation by 2025, the development divide is set to deepen

Budget 2021-22 should incentivise clean fuel for pollution control

Transition to cleaner fuels used for combustion, as done in Beijing, is the most dependable solution to clean Delhi’s air

Assault on open access to science in India

Elsevier, Wiley and American Chemical Society have pleaded in front of Delhi High Court that ISPs block Sci-Hub and Libgen websites in India

Crop risks, environmental damages, hunger and the 2020 farm laws

Improved access to new markets, better yields and higher income need to safeguard environmental sustainability and farmers’ indebtedness

Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools

UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women

Carl Sagan, the animal rights visionary

He was talking about global warming and humane treatment of animals before they became fashionable

Why healthy food and its local production should be part of the COVID-19 response

 The available evidence suggests these measures could bolster people’s health and well-being while also building their resilience to pandemics

Lateral Thoughts: Don't blame it on the mosquito

Vector-borne diseases are complex and tackling just one aspect of the equation will not help  

Coronavirus variants: why being more transmissible rather than more deadly isn’t good news

At the heart of this assertion lies an old foe that has plagued us right from the start of this pandemic: exponential growth

Sylvan suburbia: Why a forest corridor between Delhi and Haryana needs legal protection

Apart from housing rich wildlife, the forest corridor spread across Gurugram, Faridabad and the Asola Sanctuary also protects the National Capital Region’s water security

Trump’s big gamble to gut US power plant emissions rules loses in court, opening a door for new climate rules

The appeals court ruling in the power plant case merely confirms that many of the rollbacks rested on shaky legal grounds. These legal flaws will make it easier for Biden to undo many of the rollbacks

Biden is inheriting a wrecked economy, but Democrats have a record of avoiding recession and reducing unemployment

Since Eisenhower assumed presidency in 1953, the economy measured by GDP, unemployment, inflation & recessions has done better under Democrats

Vaccine production in South Africa: how an industry in its infancy can be developed

Only if investment is increased, sustained, and backed by political commitment, will the country have sufficient vaccine production capacity

How COVID-19 restrictions prevent Nairobi’s sex workers from accessing vital healthcare

Unfortunately, COVID-19 has made it harder than usual for sex workers all over Africa to access healthcare

Food and healthcare in war-torn Tigray: preliminary insights on what’s at stake

The war has put 4.5 million people, half of whom are children, in need of emergency food assistance

COVID-19 policy briefs must be realistic: A review by young southern African scientists

The young scientists highlighted the need for policies that are appropriate for people’s real lives

Why National Green Tribunal is not as powerful as UK Environment Agency

One of NGT's limitations is the ‘lack of environmental finesse’ of its expert members