Environment Impact Assessment: India needs to revamp its public consultation framework
The draft Environment Impact Assessment notification 2020 minimises public engagement. How do other countries go about it?
Unfair fields: Asymmetric WTO rules let US inflate cotton subsidies must be reformed
Cottton farmers in India and other Global South countries, like the Afican C-4 of benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, at peril …
Texas deep freeze: Satellite images how the state plunged into darkness in days
The historic cold blast claimed almost 30 lives in Texas
Why restoring water systems should be top priority for Biden administration
Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the ‘nice-to-have’ column of environmental progress
Time to reset our relationship with nature: UN ahead of 5th Environment Assembly
Addressing environmental crises will also help reach sustainable goals such as poverty-alleviation, food and water security and good health, says …
One month in, how Biden has changed disaster management and the US COVID-19 response
In direct contrast to his predecessor, US President Joe Biden is treating this as a national-scale crisis requiring a comprehensive national …
How John Kerry can bring US back in climate fight ring
The US is on track to re-join the Paris Agreement. Kerry brings to table the clout and connections associated with being former president Barack …
UN Committee for World Food Security endorses voluntary guidelines to end hunger
The guidelines will contribute to realisation of global goals on hunger and nutrition even as more than 3 billion people do not have access …
संरक्षित क्षेत्रों में 41 फीसदी कम होती है वनों की कटाई: शाेध
शोध में पाया गया कि संरक्षित क्षेत्रों में वनों की कटाई की दर असुरक्षित क्षेत्रों की तुलना में 41 फीसदी कम है।
Are vaccines already helping contain COVID-19? Early signs say yes, but mutations will be challenging
Infection rates have declined in countries that have inoculated a large share of the population
January 2021 ninth-warmest month for US on record: NOAA
Below-average precipitation experienced in several regions; peak ice coverage declined
12 million in UK face health risks due to climate change: Study
Heat-related deaths among people over 65 years rose 21 per cent between 2004 and 2018
दुनिया भर में 87 लाख मौतों के लिए जिम्मेवार है जीवाश्म ईंधन से होने वाला प्रदूषण
भारत में जीवाश्म ईंधन से होने वाला वायु प्रदूषण 24.6 लाख मौतों के लिए जिम्मेवार था| वहीं चीन में इसके कारण 39.1 लाख लोगों ...
Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?
The efficacy of the vaccine was 89 per cent in United Kingdom and 60 per cent in South Africa
2020 में एशिया प्रशांत क्षेत्र को व्यापार में हुआ 1.60 लाख करोड़ रुपए का नुकसान
संयुक्त राष्ट्र आर्थिक और सामाजिक आयोग एशिया और प्रशांत के अनुसार 2020 में एशिया पैसिफिक क्षेत्र को व्यापार में करीब 160,39,507 करोड़ रुपए का नुकसान ...
कोविड-19 के चलते 37 करोड़ बच्चों को नहीं मिल पाया स्कूलों में भोजन
कोरोना महामारी के चलते 2020 में 3,900 करोड़ वक्त का भोजन वितरित नहीं हो पाया था
'Female health workers played a critical role in making Africa wild polio-free'
Tunji Funsho, who led the effort to make Nigeria wild polio-free, says COVID-19 is a setback to the last mile of polio eradication
Climate change is real & an emergency: 64% people voted so
People living in small island developing states showed highest support for climate action
पर्यावरण और लोगों के लिए बड़ा खतरा हैं पुराने होते बड़े बांध
2050 तक भारत के करीब 4,250 बड़े बांध 50 वर्ष की उम्र को पार कर जाएंगे, जबकि 64 बड़े बांध 150 वर्ष या उससे ...
Educational gaps limit success of women-owned businesses in Africa: UN Report
Secondary-and tertiary-educated women are more likely to pursue opportunities and access financial services, according to the document
Lateral Thoughts: Don't blame it on the mosquito
Vector-borne diseases are complex and tackling just one aspect of the equation will not help
Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools
UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women
Coronavirus variants: why being more transmissible rather than more deadly isn’t good news
At the heart of this assertion lies an old foe that has plagued us right from the start of this pandemic: exponential growth
1.9 billion in Asia-Pacific cannot afford healthy diet: UN report
At the same time, an estimated 14.5 million children under five were overweight or obese in 2020
Biden is inheriting a wrecked economy, but Democrats have a record of avoiding recession and reducing unemployment
Since Eisenhower assumed presidency in 1953, the economy measured by GDP, unemployment, inflation & recessions has done better …