Simply Put: DTE Cartoonist Sorit Gupto’s take as CSE releases ‘Future of Taste’
Future of Taste: In a climate-risked world, eating right is as much about nutrition as it is about the environment, people
Luxury emission-based model of food production should be discouraged, especially when the survival of farmers worldwide is jeopardised by climate …
Fridays for Future: It isn’t too late, say young activists demanding climate reparations, justice
Demands for loss & damage finance raised across the world 6 weeks ahead of CoP27
CoP26: Activists protest global leaders’ dilly-dally, demand climate justice now
Greta Thunberg termed CoP26 discussions “blah, blah, blah”
One small step for India may become a big step for humanity
India's Mars mission could play an important role in space exploration of the future
'South Asia, Africa show poor progress towards MDGs'
India fares worse than Bangladesh and Nepal, says report
World on brink of 6 interconnected risk tipping points: UN report
Human activities driving risk tipping points like extinctions, depleting groundwater, melting glaciers, space debris, unbearable heat and …
Haphazard land reclamation fuelled Mumbai's maximum dreams
It also damaged Mumbai's ecology and made flooding a regular feature, says a yet-to-be-released study &…
Humans in 2167: Internet implants and no sleep
By 2167, genetically designed, digitally enhanced humans with Internet-connected brains will live with intelligent machines in a transformed …
On Greta Thunberg and the protesting students
Sunita Narain on the lessons from the ongoing #FridaysForFuture demonstrations
Ten asks for the First 100 Days of New Government
Growth needs to inclusive and it needs to happen in a way that rights of communities and rights of future generations are not lost
No country in position to provide safe future to children: Report
High carbon emissions diminish good development indices of children, says Unicef-WHO-Lancet Commission report
Increased participation of women in workforce will lead to better outcomes: ILO report
The paper says that enterprises with gender-inclusive cultures are over 60 per cent more likely to have improved profits and productivity
Poor site choices for green energy plants led to EU losing $100 billion, says Davos report
Better cross border coordination between EU nations could have saved another $40 billion, says World Economic Forum report
India’s child sex ratio has reached ‘emergency proportions’: UN study
While northeast states such as Manipur and Nagaland have shown a sharp deterioration in child sex ratio, the skewed ratio has improved marginally …
‘Need to be accompanied biggest reason for girl student drop outs’
New study says 90 per cent of over 3,000 girls in 1,604 households across four states claimed this to be the reason
Run-up to CoP27: Parents revive demand to cut fossil fuel financing, urge leaders to prioritise child health
Last year a delegation of mothers presented a letter signed by over a million parents to the CoP president
The future we do not want
World leaders attending Rio+20 did nothing to tackle the interlinked crises of economy and ecology, says Sunita Narain after attending the …
New health threat: a sexually transmitted superbug deadlier than AIDS
Drug resistant gonorrhoea strain poses public health crisis; US Centers for Disease Control requests funds to research new antibiotics for treatment
‘States violating wildlife law in rush to notify buffer zones’
Process of consulting gram sabhas bypassed to notify buffer areas around tiger habitats within time limit set by court, allege activists
Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar
They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns
‘Save COVID generation’: Ex-world leaders, economists urge education reform
The world’s poorest children are locked out of learning, denied internet access and have lost free school meals, a lifeline for 300 million …
World Bank decides to stop financing coal-fired power plants
EXIM Bank follows suit. India unfazed by decisions. Other poor developing countries may be hit
Push to include access to energy in UN development goals
Speakers at a consultative meeting in Delhi call for finding sustainable and affordable technological solutions for making energy accessible to …