Device found to retain 95% capacity after driving 500,000 kilometres
Ghana: Kumasi city’s unplanned boom is destroying two rivers – sewage, heavy metals and chemical pollution detected
Can kimchi really help you lose weight? Hold your pickle. The evidence isn’t looking great
Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems
Effluent industry’s role in clean energy: Exploring India’s first paper mill waste to compressed biogas facility
It is crucial that states with significant potential promptly implement bioenergy policies and state-level renewable energy agencies vigorously embrace and implement these policies
Two years on, what has been the progress on Committee on MSP? I follow up
The Committee has not produced any interim report yet; critical that government focuses on farmers’ well-being
What is crippling India’s valuable teak plantations?
Instead of simply advocating for teak plantations, farmers should be sensitised to holistic packages encompassing not only cultivation techniques but also comprehensive best practices
Rigged or not, polls the only option for Pakistan
While there are allegations of it being fixed, as a constitutional exercise it is preferable compared to the alternative which is martial law
Microplastics found in Nile River’s tilapia fish: new study
This all has serious implications for human health, as people catch and eat the fish, which introduces those microplastics and associated chemicals into their bloodstreams
Turkey earthquakes one year on: The devastation has exposed deep societal scars and women are bearing the brunt
Following the quakes, women and girls faced heightened care and domestic work responsibilities, health challenges and an increased susceptibility to violence
A new virus-like entity has just been discovered – ‘obelisks’ explained
Obelisks have a circular single-stranded RNA genome and no protein coat but, like viruses, their genomes contain genes that are predicted to code for proteins
Thirty years of rural health research: South Africa’s Agincourt studies offer unique insights
A health and socio-demographic surveillance system was established in remote, rural South Africa in 1992
Indian villages are 100% electrified, but what’s next?
Government must introduce policies that focus on utility of quality electricity than just connections
Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how
Achieving certification no simple feat; country was close to eliminating malaria twice but these gains were not sustained
Madagascar: giant tortoises have returned 600 years after they were wiped out
Reintroducing this tortoise to areas degraded by cattle grazing will help restore the island’s forests, grassy woodlands and shrublands of the past. It could also help prevent devastating forest fires in future
Tripling nuclear energy by 2050 will take a miracle, and miracles don’t happen
It is time to abandon the idea that further expanding nuclear technology can help with mitigating climate change
Union Budget 2024-25 set blueprint for India’s New Green Deal
Sitharaman’s announcements are in line with PM Modi’s 2021 Glasgow declaration on Net Zero by 2070
Union Budget 2024-25: High on claims, less on substance
The budget speech was reduced to unsubstantiated claims and dangling the carrot of prosperity in future yet again
World Wetlands Day 2024: Before we save them, we have to know where they actually are
Correct mapping and boundary demarcation are critical steps in the wetland restoration process
Brigid’s Day: how a festival of fire and fertility connects Christian Ireland with its pagan past
The beliefs and lore around both Brigit the goddess and Brigid the saint are almost identical and it is generally accepted that one developed from the other
Wetlands are superheroes: Expert sets out how they protect people and places
They purify water, provide habitats for plants and animals and provide over 1 billion livelihoods globally
What promises should Budget 2024-25 hold for agriculture sector?
Recent budget hikes proved limited benefits to the farmers, necessitating a review to prioritise sector-wide support
‘Rogue elephant’, ‘Crocodile-infested’, ‘Tiger-haunted’: It is all in the semantics
Language has shaped or disfigured landscapes, human communities, wildlife populations and our perception of the very earth we call ‘home’ over the years
Runup to Interim Budget 2024: The minimum NREGA budget for FY 2024-25 must be Rs 2.71 lakh crore
The government must recognise the significance of NREGA and ensure adequate budgets that allow the programme to function as intended
We once killed 600,000 koalas in a year. Now they’re Australia’s ‘teddy bears’. What changed?
As many as 800,000 koalas were killed in Queensland in 1927 before the government reversed course