Our planet is changing fast and its adverse effects are being felt by all living beings. Global warming, pollution, and climate change threaten our very existence and yet, we don’t do much about it. Seventy-five-year-old Selvamma has altered her lifestyle for the better. The corn-seller who has been working outside the Vidhan Soudha building for …
The world’s oceans are running out of breath. In the past 50 years, we have lost nearly half our coral reefs and mangrove forests and the size of marine populations has halved. A third of global fish stocks are already depleted. If these trends continue, it is estimated that there will be no stocks left for …
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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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At a time when the world is grappling with meeting the Paris Climate Agreement and trying to prevent the sixth mass extinction on Earth, an international team of scientists has published a way forward – a Global Deal for Nature. The science-backed plan, published in Science Advances, proposes ambitious targets for the conservation of nature as …
We need to protect 30% of the planet by 2030. This is how we can do it Read More »
Scientists have figured out a way to feed electricity to microbes to grow truly green, biodegradable bioplastics, according to a new study. The research comes from the idea that engineers can use electricity harvested from the sun or wind interchangeably with power from coal or petroleum sources. Or they can turn sustainably produced electricity into …
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