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Whose Waste Is It?

Producers are shifting their plastic recovery responsibility to other companies

Commons No More

Odisha government is setting up land banks to lure industries and investments. In the rush, it is alienating people from the commons. ISHAN KUKRETI travels to some of the areas worst hit by the government-sponsored land grab.

Rise After The Fall​​​​​​​

Sikkim, once the world's largest producer of large cardamom, is trying to regain its lost glory. Can it achieve the feat in the face of a changing climate?

Save The Cow Mother

Oxytocin is given to women during and after childbirth to save their lives from blood loss. But the government is planning to restrict its use as it is illegally given to cattle to increase milk production.

Deluge Of The Century

Kerala's worst flood since 1924 reinforces how local environmental degradation and lack of disaster preparedness can make extreme weather events deadly.

Where India Fears To Tread

Even rich nations are using compulsory .licences to ensure cheaper life-saving drugs for public healthcare unlike India.

Bizarre, Serious, Jocular

Janaki Lenin captures the animal (and human) world in all its mystique and charm.

Drowning In Debris

Construction and demolition waste is piling up across India. Regulations are in place, but recycling is yet to gain momentum.AVIKAL SOMVANSHI breaks down the cartouche of waste mismanagement

Why We Need A Circular Economy

Reusing products is not only necessary for a sustainable future, but also makes business sense

Crisis Management

Jared Diamond's latest book espouses that nations can come out of a crisis just the way people do Ishan Kukreti

Curbing True Lies

The answer may not be to enact laws to ban fake news, as Singapore has recently done.

Scorcher

Heat waves have swept 23 Indian states and union territories claiming lives and throttling livelihoods. They are breaching boundaries across the world and are also becoming more intense. What can we do to cope with it?

Wild Delight

Sohphie, a sweet-and-sour fruit, marks the arrival of spring in Meghalaya. It is relished raw as well as in pickles Shalini Dhyani.

The Next Ten To Go Dry

Bengaluru, Beijing, Mexico City and Istanbul are some of the cities that are headed towards Day Zero.

Urban Deserts

An estimated 400 million people currently live in cities with perennial water shortage. The number is slated to go up to 1 billion by 2050 due to rising urban population and the impact of climate change.

Let Cauvery Be

Deforestation, urbanisation, illegal mining and dumping of effluents along the river has left the basin battered and bruised. Decades of degradation has led to an unprecedented crisis for the 15 million who live on its banks.Jitendra travels along the course of one of India’s biggest rivers to understand why its level hit a record low this year

One Tool To Track It All

Can the humongous online data generated in the job guarantee scheme be a real time index for rural distress?

Nowhere To Flow

Over 60 years after the country got its first plan to rejuvenate the rivers, not a single basin has been spared from over-exploitation

Time To Talk

Gap in communication between India and neighbouring Nepal is an endemic problem that worsens Bihar floods

War zone Cauvery

Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are once again at logger heads over the sharing of the Cauvery waters. Why have the successive agreements failed to resolve the century-long dispute?

Plan B For The Planet

The world cannot afford a 2o C rise. The climate change goal must be fixed at 1.5o C so that we get a chance to avert the worst impacts

Ganga Needs More Than Just Cleaning

Government reforms must include basin-scale hydrological and ecological conservation efforts Michelle Irengbam, Shivani Barthwal, Niladri Dasgupta, Ruchi Badola & Syed Ainul Hussain

Pills By Jugaad!

A new investigative book, bottle of lies, says that Indian cancer drugs are contaminated; cholesterol medication has shards of glass; and, blood pressure pills contain a live bug. In these excerpts, the author, Katherine Eban writes about jugaad, an indian model of aggressive shortcuts, the ability to dodge onerous rules to get the desired results

Vitamin B12 - Are You Deficient?

The prescription for a plant-based diet overlooks vitamin B12 deficiency that is primarily present in animal-based diets

5G And The Fear Of Radiation

Radiation fears mount as the world gets ready to embrace the networkintensive 5G

Blind Spot in Namami Gange

Two flagship programmes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are working at cross-purposes. By 2019, when Swachh Bharat Mission comes to an end, some 30 million septic tanks and pits would have been dug along the Ganga. These tanks and pits would produce 180 million litres of faecal sludge every day, which will eventually find its way into the Ganga, defeating Namami Gange. It's time the Central, state and local sanitation programmes recognised faecal sludge management as a priority to ensure a clean Ganga 

Reluctant To Upgrade

Zero liquid discharge technologies can help textile dyeing units recycle water and reduce effluents released into rivers. Why are they resisting?

Live Life Farm Style

Want to live in a city and grow your own food in a village nearby? There are companies that can help.

Prisoner Of Contradictions

India's only wetland cat is under multiple threats.

Again, Stop Talking About GDP

India missed another opportunity to shed its obsession with a bad measure of economy.