What triggers desertification in India

A low down on the most important causes behind desertification in every state of the country. Addressing ...

Flood, but how

Extreme rainfall in a short period catches India unawares Monsoon 2019 started in a humdrum way. For ...

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 ...

Extreme anomalies

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

Slumming it out

Every sixth urban Indian lives in slums unfit for human habitation. Slums, in fact, are so common ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

India's Health Crisis

Insufficient allocation for the health sector pushing 7% of Indians below the poverty line and about 23% ...

Emission impossible

We need to change the way we farm, we eat and we think as agriculture is the ...

Hunger can't wait

While the decline in hunger and undernutrition has been robust in some parts of the world, many ...

Social cost of CO2 emission

India’s country-level social cost of carbon emission was estimated to be the highest at $86 per tonne ...

Dying Kingdom

In the past decade, eight bird species have been confirmed as extinct or close to extinction. Globally, ...

'Extreme' is new normal

It is time to accept that we are beginning to see the impact of climate change in ...

Activism under attack

Intimidation, unlawful detention and unjust prosecution: activists and journalists across the country are increasingly subjected to harassment ...

India's health workforce crisis

Doctor-patient ratio in India is much less than the WHO-prescribed limit of 1:1000