Satyarup Siddhanta is the only Indian to scale “Seven Summits and Seven Volcanic Summits”. Bengali techie Satyarup Siddhanta set foot on the 4,285-metre high volcanic peak, Mt. Sidley in Antarctica, at 6:28 am (Indian Standard Time) on Wednesday, becoming the youngest person in the world at 35 years, 274 days to scale the tallest …
Study claims poor air quality caused 1.2 mn deaths each in India and China in 2017 The current high levelof air pollution has shortened the average lifespan of a South Asian child by two-and-a-half years while globally the reduction stands at 20 months, according to a global study released on Wednesday. State of Global Air 2019, published …
Ramveer Tanwar grew up amidst lush farm lands only to realise that the lakes in his village were dying. The 25-year-old has been unstoppable in raising awareness around water conservation, since With India’s water levels declining every other minute, it is the remotest regions of the country which have been facing the worst of this crisis. In the little village …
42% India’s land area under drought, worsening farm distress About 42% of India’s land area is facing drought, with 6% exceptionally dry–four times the spatial extent of drought last year, according to data for the week ending March 26, 2019, from the Drought Early Warning System (DEWS), a real-time drought monitoring platform. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, parts …
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Suresh Daniel, quit his comfortable job in Singapore, to walk 3,800 kms on foot and spread environmental awareness from Kankyakumari to Kashmir 30-year-old, Suresh Daniel, was busy with life doing his dream job in the hospitality industry in Singapore before he decided to quit it all to take up a mission. A ‘very simple’ mission, …
