How Africa can seize the moment and start resetting its relationship with the IMF
Africa should call for reforms that will make the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust more responsive to African needs and more accountable to Africans
Remembering Danish Siddiqui
The Pulitzer-winning journalist has left behind a legacy to thousands of emerging photographers, a legacy to question
Spike in COVID-19 cases points to gaps in South Africa’s response
There has been insufficient involvement of civil society and ordinary community members.
COVID-19: Why critically ill patients in Africa are taking a bigger hit
One in 10 hospitals could not provide pulse oximetry to measure arterial blood saturation to all critical care patients
All about the most selfish animal on the planet
We, humans, continue to choke our oceans with harmful waste. So, have we really changed?
Secret diary of a virus
Thanks to the trade and imperial ventures of humans, these disease-causing organisms could cross regional boundaries and spread infection
A letter from the jungle
The forest, capable of meeting our basic needs of food, shelter and fuel, can act as a model of sustainable living for all of us
Chasing the storm
The wild winds huff and puff, destroying all that comes in its way. But, does it have a hidden message to say?
How the fowl, chicken’s ancestor, travelled the world
Indians were probably the first to domesticate the red jungle fowl and realise its medicinal and nutritional worth
How plastic appeared in our lives
We have evolved and invented plastic items to make our lives easier, but some of these pose a big threat to us today
A God we must not fail
2020 is our make-or-break decade to ensure water security. We need to make water our single-biggest obsession as we know the solutions too
Are Jan Ausadhi stores really serving the purpose they were set up for
There are more Jan Ausadhi stores in relatively affluent districts though they were set up to make medicines more affordable for the poor
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot flags off CSE's annual conclave
Three-day Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2020 also kicked off; State of India's Environment report launched
Economic Survey 2019-20: 'Thalinomics in a hungry India'
It is an attempt to quantify what a common person pays for a Thali in India, according to the Economic Survey 2019-20
कैसे होगी साफ देश की हवा
भारत में हवा की खराब स्थिति कोई नई बात नहीं है। देश के 122 म…
Natural History: World's oldest forest identified from fossils
Researchers classify an area in an abandoned sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York as the remains of the world's oldest forests
Junk food monster: Mark junk food red
How all the 33 tested products would look if the proposed red marking rule is applied to high fat and salt foods
FSSAI's GMO threshold for imported food crops ‘unacceptably high’, says letter to health minister
FSSAI issued an order on February 8 setting the permissible limit for GMO in imported food crops at 1%
Kalahandi’s Kutia Kondhs: Subsistence a struggle for this tribe of nature worshippers
Despite living in abject poverty and depending on natural resources for survival, the Kondhs do not use wood from the forests for fuel and also …
Rare earth metals are used extensively in clean energy technologies. But how safe are they?
Mining and disposal of these elements add to the environmental damages and ecological burden
पनीर ने बदली गांव की तस्वीर
उत्तराखंड के पहाड़ी इलाकों से पलायन की बढ़ती समस्या के बी…
The Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) explained
A key goal of this partnership is to reduce the dependence on China to secure critical minerals as the country has developed a mineral processing …
All hail the “Rain Queen” of South Africa
Masalanabo Modjadji, the soon-to-be queen of Balobedu tribe, is set to be as powerful as the Zulu and Xhosa kings
The curious case of rapid melting in the Himalayas
Nearly one-third of the world’s population depend on the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) for water
At a glance: How was infant mortality in India’s state in 2018
Infant mortality: The number of deaths of children within the first year of birth per 1,000 live births