India is facing a shortage of pulses. Untimely rains have caused their prices to rise by up to 64 per cent in 2014-15. Experts say we need to invest in research to produce better seeds
‘Still uncertain how Sundarbans mangroves will evolve under climate change’
‘DMC3 constellation has the capacity to capture any image on Earth’s surface’
'India is likely to experience strong relative impacts of climate change'
‘Bangladesh a veritable laboratory to study climate change action’
Saleemul Huq is the director at the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD) since 2009. Huq is ...
Community management of ponds has been a success'
Mohit Kumar Ray, convener of Kolkata-based non-profit Vasundhara Foundation, says the city has been losing nearly 200 ponds each ...
'We must be ready to face big earthquakes in prone areas'
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted mega mock drills in prone areas to assess our preparedness in the ...
‘Antibiotics are convenient only when they work effectively’
The goal is to treat bacterial infections. Every possible way should be made of making bacteria susceptible to antibiotics ...
Sergio Canavero: the brain behind first proposed head transplant
Surgeon Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, has been making news for two years ...
`Ancient Indian literature displays exact knowledge of environmental phenomena'
Retired diplomat and well-known translator of ancient Sanskrit texts, Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar recently released the reprint of his ...
`Top scientists misuse power, funds'
It seems like a lost cause but Kasturi Lal Chopra battles on. As president of the Society for Scientific ...
Tibetan landscape may soon disappear
In the 1980s, when very few people visited Tibet, Michael Buckley, an Australian settled in Canada, wrote the first ...
“Aboriginal people in Australia still do not have right over their land”
Poet and writer ALI COBBY ECKERMANN was in India recently to launch her memoir, Too Afraid To Cry. The ...
'They asked me to withdraw my court case'
P PARDHA SARADHI is tenacious. This mild-mannered professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Delhi ...
"The world needs a new work culture, not just jobs"
Austrian-born Frithjof Bergmann, a professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, USA, founded the Center for New Work ...
Proper diet for children should include eggs to provide good quality proteins
Veena Shatrugna has campaigned vigorously against brahmanical influence on the ‘balanced diet’. She explains the politics of food that has ...
US, epicentre of unequal wealth
As the US completes 50 years of its "war on poverty", the country does not have much to ...
‘Watershed conservation can benefit 700 million people in 100 big cities’
Indian cities are struggling to fight water stress. Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Jodhpur are going to areas ...
`Family farming is not a romantic idea. It is business'
The food price rise of 2007-08 highlighted that investments in the agriculture sector have reduced in the past three ...
'Food security, not profit from trade in food, is priority for developing countries'
A report on “Food riots and food rights” was recently presented in the UK House of Commons. Funded by ...
'Ebola is the result of environmental degradation'
Peter Hotez is the co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that provides access to essential medicines ...
`We've strong evidence that eating sugar contributes to heart disease'
Kimber Stanhope, nutritional biologist at the University of California, Davis, US, is studying the health effects of fructose, a ...
`Student satellites are more than lab experiments'
D V A Raghava Murthy, director, Earth Observations Systems, was the project director of Small Satellite Projects at ISRO ...
‘Sedentary lifestyle responsible for alarming rise of spinal problems in India’
Spine-related problems are on the rise in India as elsewhere in the world. H S Chhabra, secretary of Association ...
`Many doctors are simply businessmen'
Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief ...