Science & Technology - Briefs

Science & Technology - Briefs

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Yale guide to fighting drug patent barriers

How human rights can be used to challenge oppressive intellectual property laws

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate

Gas, found and lost

Coal mining threatens Meghalaya caves

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Village bullied for using its forest

Forest department registers offence against a gram sabha for felling bamboo clusters

Last mile chaos

New Delhi struggles with a policy to regulate e-rickshaws

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

Pedestrian questions

Environment ministry firm on 'no-go' zones

Says mining in no-go zone against Forest Conservation Act

Tidal spells

Deep ocean currents could hold clues to climate change

Chicken comes home to roost

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

Nuclear utility grabs land

Public sector NPCIL encroaches upon mango plantations near its Ratnagiri plant

Cities are good

Angel argues slowing down urbanisation will hurt the poor the most

Coal politics in an unequal world

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SAIL gets pristine forest to mine

MoEF flouts its own order by expanding mine in Saranda without wildlife management plan

Climate science in real world

Protests at Bihar asbestos unit

Deaths, diseases, skin ailments are common, complain residents

Amendment without correction

Mines and minerals amendment bill falls short of meaningful reform