Flood, but how

Extreme rainfall in a short period catches India unawares Monsoon 2019 started in a humdrum way. For sometime, it seemed many parts of India won't recieve as much rainfall as they normally do. But a sudden change of gear — pouring cats and dogs in a short span — led to deluges and flash floods, even cloud bursts.

बढ़ते तापमान से बदहाल धरती

कभी दिन के थे राजा, अब हैं रात के उल्लू

जानिए, कैसे हम मनुष्यों के हस्तक्षेप के कारण बदल रहा है जंगली जीवों का व्यवहार जैसे-जैसे मनुष्यों की महत्वाकांक्षा बढ़ती जा रही है, वो तेजी से जंगलों में…

Extreme anomalies

Between January and June 2019 extreme weather events across the world broke the century-mark

स्लम: आखिर कब सुधरेंगे हालात

भारत में जहां हर छठा शहरी नागरिक स्लम बस्तियों में रहने के लिए मजबूर है। वहीं आंकड़ों की मानें तो देश में हर 10 में से छह झुग्गी-झोपड़ी में रहने वाले लोग इन �…

Slumming it out

Every sixth urban Indian lives in slums unfit for human habitation. Slums, in fact, are so common that they are found in 65 per cent of the Indian towns. Yet slum dwellers are the most overlooked section of society. Six out of 10 slum dwellers live close to unsanitary drains and almost four of every 10 do not get treated water.

Displacement burden on India due to extreme weather events

Natural disasters, primarily-extreme weather events, triggered the displacement of nearly 17.2 million worldwide in 2018. At 2.678 million, India recorded the maximum number of people displaced — that’s more than double the 1.3 million displaced in 2017.

World has failed to respond to accidents and diseases at work

In 2017, 2.7 million workers died from work-related injuries and diseases, up from 2.4 million workers in 2014. With a nearly 20 per cent rise in injuries and diseases at work in just three years, the work force is at risk.

Waste to worth

Innovative ways to solve the riddle of waste by turning it into useful and valuable products

Managing menstrual waste in India

A film on menstruation, titled 'Period. End Of Sentence', has won the Oscar in the documentary short subject category. Here's looking at the problem of managing menstrual waste in India

What is soil erosion and how to combat it

It's estimated that one billion tons of valuable nutrients in topsoil are lost to erosion every year.

Farm it like India

Novel, ground-breaking innovations to solve day-to-day problems faced by farmers 

Swine flu grips India tighter and tighter

The number cases of the disease have crossed 6,600-mark this year in the country

Counting the cost of catastrophe

With changing climate, the frequency of extreme weather events in India is rising and so is the price we pay for it.

Climate Equity: Whose CO₂ emissions are more than their share?

Climate change poses the greatest threat to those least responsible for it–generally people that are already vulnerable to deep-rooted challenges such as poverty. Conversely, those who have contributed the most to climate change have much better capacity to protect themselves from its impacts. In a completely equal world, each country's share of the world's Carbon dioxide emissions …

India's Health Crisis

Insufficient allocation for the health sector pushing 7% of Indians below the poverty line and about 23% of the sick can't afford healthcare

Emission impossible

We need to change the way we farm, we eat and we think as agriculture is the largest source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions

Losing our stripes: A success story gone wrong?

With 414 tiger deaths in four years (2015-18), India records highest toll between two censuses. Almost half of tiger deaths in the last three years were reported outside tiger reserves.

Bhopal Gas Disaster

Thousands killed; a generation left to struggle-but does the world's biggest industrial disaster resonate with today's indians, two-thirds of whom were born after 1984

The Invisible Killer: a hidden danger in the air

Autumn in India is smog season, the worst time of year for some of the world's most polluted cities. The air pollution that we breathe every day is largely invisible but it is killing us. The fact is that pollution levels in north India, Delhi and its surroundings were alarmingly high in the past month. The PM2.5 concentration was in the emergency category, it was (and remains) very bad for …

Hunger can't wait

While the decline in hunger and undernutrition has been robust in some parts of the world, many countries still suffer the indignity of food insecurity and displacement.