Night flights face

Court's verdict on aircraft noise may amplify litigation

Our vanishing cousins

Amnesty report nails Internet service providers in China

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A subject: a human being

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Jones in Palestine

Burden or boon? Wayanad residents divided on wildlife as interest groups advocate trigger-happy responses

Since January, a pervasive anti-wildlife sentiment has descended over the district and violent protests erupted against animals and conservationists

Major new study unveils complexity and vast diversity of Africa’s genetic variation

More than three million new genetic variants discovered, details of migration and expansion of groups across the continent found

Indigenous peoples globally being ‘criminalised’ for defending their rights

Physical violence as well as legal prosecution is used to label defenders as ‘criminals’ and the process is becoming widespread, says …

Sustained focus, behaviour change needed to make people use new toilets: study

Adding a behaviour change component to sanitation programmes can motivate people to use toilets, it finds

Landscape-level approach necessary to address human-elephant conflicts

A study involving close monitoring of elephants on daily basis for two years in Karnataka has concluded that landscape-level management is …

Democratic regression, human rights and SDGs

Governments, the private sector and civil society, all have to play their part to see to it that SDGs are implemented

Nudge for nature

A nudge can be a promising new tool to encourage people to act in an environmentally benign way

India witnesses one of the highest female infanticide incidents in the world: study

At least 117 million girls around the world demographically go “missing” due to sex-selective abortions

Companies mining energy transition minerals committed hundreds of human rights abuse cases: Report

The right of local communities to live in a healthy environment is jeopardised by the rush to mine for more transition minerals  

Why we must celebrate India’s indigenous HPV vaccine

Widespread and timely uptake of the new vaccine will save the lives of many Indian women by targeting a highly preventable and treatable disease

WHO allows self-collected samples for HPV testing

The revised guidelines also suggested DNA-based tests for HPV infection is better than pap smear

Humanity’s birthplace: why everyone alive today can call northern Botswana home

Earliest population of modern humans arose 200,000 years ago in an area that covers parts of modern-day Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe

How culture shaped evolution

A new book argues that cultural evolution helped in the accumulation of locally adaptive knowledge much faster than genetic evolution

Aral Sea: living sample of a human-made catastrophe

The Aral Sea has shrunk to a fourth of its size. Neha Mungekar travels to Uzbekistan and recounts how it remains a living sample of a monumental …

Taxing menstrual products is like taxing women for being women

Instead of being counted as ‘necessities’, sanitary napkins are counted as ‘luxury products’ in India

A search for a lost friend

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The 'Right to recall'

Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two …

First human-to-human transmission of deadly strain of bird flu in China

Virus transmitted from infected father to daughter who cared for him in hospital; both die