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THE ODD FLOWER

Onion flower stalks can provide a distinct taste and flavour to food

Green equations

A first-of-its-kind index to evaluate gross environment product

Vehicles behind Delhi's poor air quality

ON NOVEMBER 5, 2023, three Indian cities— Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata—recorded some of the worst air quality levels in the world.

Known unknowns

India's apex food regulator has no data on presence of genetically modified organisms in fresh produce imported by the country over past five years VIVEK MISHRA NEW DELHI

A SINK BECOMES SOURCE

Droughts kill billions of trees in the Amazon like no other extreme event

THE AMAZONIAN DRYING

The historic drought in the Amazon indicates that the rain forest is approaching an irreversible tipping point. The results would be disastrous for the world

Post-pandemic blues of predatory pharma

Huge stockpiles of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, along with a steep drop in revenues, tell a sorry tale of Big Pharma's greed

Scientist, activist, advisor

Saleemul Huq championed locally led climate adaptation and greater involvement of all stakeholders in global discourse

Lending voice

A journalist in Malkangiri, Odisha, helps tribal girls and women take charge of their own health and share their stories ISHAN KUKRETI

Delayed by decades

Centre-state tussle and bureaucratic incompe-tencies withhold compensation for land acquisition in Jharkhand's coal belt

Drop in the bucket

Adaptation finance needed by developing countries is 10-18 times as high as current flows, says the latest UNEP report

RUNNING OUT OF TIME

THE DRYING up of the Amazon ecosystem is a sign of a planetary crisis. The rainforests are one of the nine tipping points or thresholds in the climate system that, if crossed, would cause irreversible changes.

RUMOURED FORBIDDEN

It's time to banish the fears around khesari dal, or grass pea, and relish the nutritious legume

Homegrown benefit

A shift from exotic and crossbred cattle to indigenous breeds that are better adapted to changing climate and resistant to diseases will help India's dairy sector stay profitable and sustainable

CLEAR OPTIONS

India is adopting new sewage wastewater treatment technologies that are more efficient, but it must choose the ones that best meet local needs

പീച്ചിങ്ങ പീച്ചുമ്പോൾ ഹരിതോർജം

ഫ്ലാക്സോവൈദ്യുതിയാണു പീച്ചിങ്ങ ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്നത്

കരിയിലശലഭം

Common Name: Common Evening Brown Scientific Name: Melanitis leda

സ്വാമിനാഥൻ ഇതിഹാസ ശാസ്ത്രകാരൻ

ഏഷ്യയിൽ പട്ടിണി അകറ്റിയ ഹരിത വിപ്ലവത്തിന്റെ പിതാവ് ഡോ. എം എസ് സ്വാമിനാഥനെ അനുസ്മരിക്കുന്നു. - ഡോ. എം എസ് സ്വാമിനാഥന്റെ ഗവേഷണ മേഖലകളിലെയും നയരൂപീകരണ മേഖലകളിലെയും സംഭാവനകളെ പരിചയപ്പെ ടുത്തുന്നു. - ഡോ. എം എസ് സ്വാമിനാഥൻ മികച്ച ഗവേഷകൻ, അതിലേറെ നല്ല അധ്യാപകനുമായിരുന്നു എന്ന് സാക്ഷ്യപ്പെടുത്തുന്നു.

ഇന്ത്യൻ അസോസിയേഷൻ ഫോർ ദി കൾട്ടിവേഷൻ ഓഫ് സയൻസ്

ഉപരിപഠനം

പ്രകാശ മലിനീകരണം

യഥാർത്ഥത്തിൽ എന്താണ് പ്രകാശ മലിനീകരണം?

വൈദ്യശാസ്ത്ര നൊബേൽ

mRNA വാക്സിനുകൾ എന്ന ആശയം

റോബോട്ടുകളുടെ ചരിത്രം

- റോബോട്ടുകളുടെ പരിസരബോധ വും, വസ്തുക്കളുടെ സ്ഥാനവും അകലവും വലുപ്പവും ഉപരിതല വകതയും സാധ്യമാക്കുന്ന യന്ത്രഭാഗ ങ്ങൾ ഏതൊക്കെയെന്നും അവയുടെ പ്രവർത്തനങ്ങൾ എന്തൊക്കെയെ ന്നും വിവരിക്കുന്നു - റോബോട്ടുകളെ ഏറ്റവുമേറെ ഉപയോഗപ്പെടുത്തിക്കൊണ്ടിരി ക്കുന്ന വ്യവസായങ്ങളെ പരിചയ പെടുത്തുന്നു. കഴിഞ്ഞ അരനൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ വ്യാവസാ യിക മുന്നേറ്റങ്ങളിൽ റോബോട്ടുകൾ നിർണ്ണായക സ്വാധീനം ചെലുത്തിയി ട്ടുണ്ടെന്നു അവകാശപ്പെടുന്നു.

India extends sugar export curbs

CONCERNED OVER the rising prices and the impact of a weak monsoon on sugarcane crops, India has extended curbs on exports of sugar beyond October.

Bt's takedown

The worst pink bollworm attack in over two decades in north India raises question over the efficacy of Bt cotton in fighting the pest it was created to resist. As the attacks become regular and severe, cultivators quit cotton farming en masse, reports

Easy targets

High-income nations across the world appear focused on agriculture as the sector to enforce emissions cut for meeting national climate goals

COLLABORATE TO RESTORE

Delhi is making efforts to bring back the Sahibi, but the river's true rejuvenation will require its revival in the neighbouring states of Rajasthan and Haryana as well

Claudia Goldin on Career and Family

A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. Claudia Goldin, who has won this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences traces in her book Career and Family how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.

Devastating societies through war and drugs

Generics giant Teva is top among drug firms found guilty of fuelling the US opioid crisis, agrees to pay $4.25 billion

Watch and earn

An initiative to protect the Sinhagad fort and forest in Maharashtra also helps people earn a livelihood

CAUGHT UNAWARES

In a rapidly changing climate, early warning systems are a critical, cost-effective way of protecting people from extreme weather. But effective implementation of the system to protect every person on Earth by 2027, as envisioned by the UN, is a huge task. Countries highly vulnerable to climate change impacts lack the know-how or finance. Technologies, too, need upgrading to accurately predict disasters.