The ecology of language
Battle for Niyamgiri
Out of site
Villagers block garbage route
Pay tax to get water
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Climate change is forcing butterflies and moths to adapt – but some species can’t
Only by arming ourselves with an understanding of why butterfly numbers are down can we hope to halt or reverse the decline
Health Can’t Move The Needle At UN Climate Summit All Alone
An interview with Daniel Kass, senior vice president at Vital Strategies and former Deputy Commissioner of Health for New York City
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
Extent of contamination
Spending enormous money, creating awareness and building sewage treatment plants have not helped cleanse India's polluted river stretches. The …
Fixing cities' water crises could send our climate targets down the gurgler
Cities all over the world are facing growing challenges to provide clean water. And many of the fixes, such as desalination plants, have a huge …
Battery downfall for e-Rickshaw owners in India
The singular complaint of the E-rickshaw drivers is the battery. Most of the batteries die out in about 4-5 months. They have low range and need …
N. Raja of Toyota India on future of Electric Vehicles in India
N Raja, Deputy Managing Director of Toyota Kirloskar talks about the roadmap for India to convert to electric and the bottlenecks. He says that …
They are people’s trees
Sacred groves have been revived, as in Manipur, or are emerging, as in Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and eastern Maharashtra. Moreover, the root cause …
CLIMATE CHANGE NOW - The Story of Carbon Colonisation
We live in the age of climate change—heat waves, extreme weather events, increase in diseases induced by deforestation, floods and snowfall …
Climate change - For the young and curious
Earth is getting warmer. The climate is changing, faster than ever before. Why? What is the science behind this?