Is India prepared to manage its burgeoning medical waste challenge?

Multiple shortcomings in the system and a gap between waste generation and treatment exist

UP textbook meds for cold end up as COVID-19 cure at WhatsApp university

Zoology textbook discussed common cold, not COVID-19 disease

The common but differentiated challenges of COVID-19 and climate change

Realities of managing 2 planet-wide crises to soon overwhelm utopian philosophy

Better not to blow

Sneeze on

There is no cure for a cold

Taming the variant

Commons: Local bodies must take lead

There is a pronounced lacuna in the governance and regulations of urban commons

Vexed vitamins

Vitamin C may produce free radicals that may cause cancer

Cool cancer treatment

The cold virus could help patients undergoing chemotherapy

H3N2 outbreak: Know this strain that caused two pandemics and is now an outbreak in India

Influenza A viruses are the only influenza viruses known to cause flu pandemics

COP28: New GGA text lacks teeth and money

The text was without strong language on means of implementation, especially adaptation finance gap and target and no resolution of the inclusion …

Nazi's industrial jackal

Bayer, Hoechst and BASF participated in Nazi crimes

COP28: Additions and deletions make new GGA text a ‘scary’ one

This is a developed country tactic that has been used before. It was also used during the negotiations on the Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 last year

National Birds Day: The various moods & colours of Indian city birds, through the eyes of an amateur ornithologist

Indian urban spaces are home to various birds; but some are vanishing at an alarming rate. Documentation such as this one brings hope and …

Mahad loses river, crops

Polluting industrial units closed only on paper

Paris Agreement adopted, countries whimper 'hooray'

More than 190 nations agree to a historic yet compromised climate deal

SC questions coal ministry’s power to allocate coal blocks

CBI opposes probe by a special investigation team

Factories poison Khed

Villagers angry over chemical effluents in their drinking water

Waste manager dumps it in river

Gujarat firm gets closure notice for stealthily disposing of untreated hazardous waste

Tannery convicted

Spam in fishing net

No check on effluents

Tirupur dyeing units told to close

Madras High Court orders shut down till zero discharge

Field science

A walk through Mangar Bani, a sacred grove near Delhi