Have some clothes to shed
If governments and multilateral organisations censor critical data on development, imagine how banal is our measurement of progress and growth
Climate change intensifies migration
Over 12,700 people worldwide died or went missing as a result of natural and man-mad disasters in 2014, says a new study
Nearly 200,000 deaths caused due to sugar-sweetened beverages: study
India’s per capita carbonated beverage consumption was around 0.6 litres in 2013. This is way below 19.96 litres among Americans and 20.…
How green is my free market?
Book>> Hot, Flat and Crowded, Why the world needs a green revolution and how we can renew our global future by Thomas L Friedman, Allen …
Coal storage
Book>>Report>>A moving story, but sans villains--humankind is pitted against nature's fury. But the Centralia inferno was created by …
Biography of malignancy
Book>> The emperor of all maladies • by Siddhartha Mukherjee • Scribner • US $15
Celestial explorers
Book>> Voyager, seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery • by Stephen J Pyne • Viking • Rs 1,000
Stuff of a capitalist
BOOK>> THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, • By T J Stiles, Knopf • Rs 800
Stop to smell the flowers
Book>> Plants: Why you can’t live without them • by B C Wolverton • Roli books • Rs 495
Maths of Gilead's hepatitis C drug
Why US firm's super expensive drug sofosbuvir costs so much and how it can be made at a tenth of current price
California to cut down emissions of methane, HFCs and black carbon
Reduction in the emissions of short lived climate pollutants can facilitate the post-2015 development agenda
Most African countries don’t have real-time air pollution monitors: Unicef
This includes Chad, Somalia and the Central African Republic where air pollution has reached emergency levels
WHA comes to an end with resolutions to improve universal health care
Members endorse improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services in health facilities around the world
Exxon's Rex Tillerson and the rise of Big Oil in American politics
Big Oil has historically played a behind-the-scenes role on American policy and politics. No longer
Climate change can wipe out world's oldest trees
According to scientists, Bristlecone pines, which are found in the upper reaches of the White Mountains in California, could be supplanted by the …
US FDA tightens efforts to address antibiotic use in livestock sector
US FDA achieves another milestone in efforts to address antimicrobial resistance in livestock-prohibits the use of antibiotics as growth promoters
Globally supported agricultural insurance mechanism must for developing nations: CSE
Unaffordability is one of the main reasons why farmers are not warming up to the idea of agricultural insurance
Eat Out to Help Out: Crowded restaurants may have driven UK COVID-19 spike
During August, the UK government ran the Eat Out to Help Out scheme to get cash into the hands of hospitality businesses, boost confidence and …
Lethal hypocrisy of US Special 301 Report
Patent protection in the US is a convoluted and expensive business and yet it pulls up other countries that have robust systems
Fourth industrial revolution: World Economic Forum advocates it; others fear corporate takeover; who is right
Technology can never exist in isolation; it has to exist within social realities, say critics of 4IR
Deluged Pakistan faces significant health threats, WHO warns
Threats include malaria, dengue fever, polio, diarrhoea, COVID-19 and cholera; Maternal health to be affected and domestic violence will rise, UN says
FAO acknowledges Indian wheat exports helped in reducing April inflation
There has been some relief in inflation in April according to the Food Price Index of the FAO, released May 6; this relief has been seen in …
Plastic endgame: Did UNEA 5.2 start a new era
The world’s adoption of the resolution to end plastic pollution by 2024 is only the first step in a long battle
175 countries commit to forge internationally binding treaty on plastic pollution by 2024
The resolution establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to complete a draft global legally binding agreement by the end of 2024
Environmental stewards: Sacred Hopi site in Arizona awarded ICOMOS Water and Heritage Shield
The Hopi consider the Sípàapu on the Little Colorado river to be the place from where their ancestors emerged from another world …