With extensive use of chemical fertilisers, there is a significant increase in the salinity of soil as well as water making it difficult for plants and other living organisms to survive. Halophytes are salt-tolerant plants that grow in waters with high salinity, such as in mangrove swamps, marshes, seashores and saline semi-deserts. Only two% of the plant …
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It’s been more than 930 days since Mohammed Sujathullah, a 26-year-old pursuing his doctorate in pharmacy from Hyderabad, began serving food to the needy. Serving free breakfast to nearly 1,000 hungry Hyderabadis every day, Sujath hasn’t missed a single day of service. Twice a week, he also distributes dinner to the homeless. Besides, he also …
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With almost four years completed since the United Nations adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we face a narrowing window of opportunity to mobilize the disruptive solutions and ambitious partnerships needed to bend the curve and improve the lives of billions within that timeframe, or indeed sooner. Nowhere is a sense of urgency greater …
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Vishwanath is a Civil Engineer and Urban and Regional Planner whereas his wife Chitra is an architect by profession. Together this couple has shown how the intention to improve and bring a transformation in your surroundings can really help to reach the goal. And when they were forced to face water crisis due to floods …
MOST of us are aware that climate change poses an existential threat to India. The special report – Global Warming of 1.50 C, released by the Inter Government Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in October last year said that the current level of Greenhouse gas emissions set the world on a trajectory of global warming of …
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