Battle for Niyamgiri
International Day for Biological Diversity
Out of site
Villagers block garbage route
Pay tax to get water
Displaced by Disasters
In 2016, one person every second was forced to flee their home. Most of the disaster-related displacements recorded in 2016 were linked to …
Episode 1 New Vastu with Ashok B Lall: How to shade your windows for a cool home
The window is your immediate connection to Su-Urja or good energy. It is the source of daylight, it is the source of fresh air and the breeze …
Count Your Carbon Footprints
If you are a resident of Hong Kong, or for that matter, Abu Dhabi or Doha, you have to admit that you have a much larger carbon footprint than …
Killer roads
India is committed to reduce the number of road accidents and fatalities by 50 per cent by 2020. However, road safety levels have taken a serious …
Extreme Is The New Normal
The world has seen 16 record-breaking hottest years since 2000. In fact, global surface temperatures are already rising about 20 times faster …
Debate: Should Indian government put a comprehensive ban on commercial surrogacy?
The surrogacy market in India is worth over US $2 billion. India is now planning to regulate this trade. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, …
The cleanest cities of India: The transgender community and women keep Paradeep clean
Paradeep has set up a socio-economic model that not only integrates the marginalised but also generates enough revenue to make itself self-…
Changing face OF AFRICA
All five regions in Africa have been experiencing an increase in temperature. This trend is likely to worsen in the coming decades. There has …
Sanitation and well being
Women in rural areas face humiliation due to absence of safe bathing spaces. Can Swachh Bharat Mission address this issue?
First Food: Explore the food-nutrition-nature-livelihood connections
India is home to more than 7 per cent of world's biodiversity and people, whose lives intertwine with this biodiversity, have found ways to …
India’s biodiversity can help mitigate environmental threats
It is one of the 17 mega biodiversity rich countries and accounts for 7 to 8 per cent of the recorded species of the world
State of India’s Environment In Figures 2018 (eBook)
This annual compendium of environmental statistics covers diverse subjects ranging from air pollution to environmental crimes, and sanitation to …
Extreme weather deaths in Rajasthan and UP
Dust storms in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh are a sign of the time to come when freak weather will intensify with the increase in global temperature
Exporting Pollution
While the world is rapid moving towards cleaner fuel, obsolete and outdated vehicle technologies continue to be shipped to developing countries …
Vitamin D deficiency: problem runs bone-deep
As many as 80 per cent of urban population and 70 per cent of rural population of India suffer from vitamin D deficiency
Born wild but caged for life
Wild animals are not born to be bred in captivity and spend their entire lives in an unnatural and stressful environment. From being hauled from …
'36% cities to face water crisis by 2050'
Robert Mcdonald, scientist at the US-based environmental organisation The Nature Conservancy, talks to Sushmita Sengupta on water crisis in …
Shrinking source
More than half of the world's major aquifers, which store groundwater, are depleting faster than they can be replenished
The Trump Card
From calling climate change a ‘hoax’ to trashing scientists’ arguments on impact of global warming, Donald Trump has blatantly …
Taking politics out of River linking
After a decade, interlinking of rivers is back again on government agenda and public debate