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Universe's lightest element to solve its biggest threat

Until Carl Benz invented world's first automobile, the three-wheeled Motorwagen, in 1886, humans primarily used their legs to travel. Then there were also domesticated animals such as horses and camels, and carts and chariots that took people from one place to the other. But things completely changed when motor vehicles came into use

Half of world's largest lakes losing water

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a ground breaking new assessment published in Science. The key culprits are not surprising: warming climate and unsustainable human consumption

World's largest Living Plant is a Seagrass

High-school textbooks have made us learn that there is a Giant Seqouia tree in Sequoia National Park in California that is over 300 feet tall and is the largest plant on this Earth

Himalayan glaciers melting 65% faster than previous decade

Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists have warned

Rise Of The Fungus

Fungal infections often go undiagnosed. Even when identified, they are among the most difficult diseases to manage. They are now quietly spreading across the globe, preying on people’s weakened immune system and taking advantage of the high diabetes burden. Some are even showing resistance to the existing arsenal of drugs and are becoming virulent in a warming world

India has lost its way on open access

New Delhi’s focus on striking a deal with the scientific publishing industry ignores the true spirit of open access and knowledge sharing

Ominous change

A clear change evident in western disturbances that bring the crucial winter rains to India

'Nature returning to modern poetry'

FOR POET, WRITER AND TRANSLATOR K SATCHIDANANDAN, NATURE WAS A THEME THAT WAS FADING FROM MODERN POETRY. BUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE CAPITALIST IDEA OF DEVELOPMENT, FACILITATED ITS COMEBACK. MARKING THE EVOLUTION OF THIS ECOPOETRY, SATCHIDANANDAN, WHO IS ALSO PRESIDENT OF KERALA SAHITYA AKADEMI,ALONG WITH ASIAN-AMERICAN POET AND PLAYWRIGHT NISHI CHAWLA RECENTLY EDITED GREENING THE EARTH, AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS ON THE GLOBAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES. IN A CONVERSATION WITH ARYA ROHINI AND PREETHA BANERJEE, SATCHIDANANDAN EXPLAINS HOW POETRY AS A MEDIUM IS INSPIRING CHANGE. EXCERPTS:

Climate counsel

Farmers in Maharashtra alert each other about local weather conditions and share new agricultural strategies to cope with climate change SHEKHAR PAIGUDE

Delay tactics

Slow progress on treaty to end global plastic pollution as countries hold up negotiations with procedural objections

Act of faith

Why is Mendha fighting for community ownership of land under gramdan law at a time when most other villages want to give up the tag and states are diluting it?

പരിണാമ ശാസ്ത്രം: നാം എന്തിന് പഠിക്കണം?

ആദ്യത്തെ ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ

പരിസ്ഥിതി പടിക്ക് പുറത്താകുമ്പോൾ

ശാസ്ത്രകേരളം

മാഞ്ഞുപോകുന്ന ഭൂതകാലം

ശാസ്ത്രകേരളം

സ്കൂളുകളിലെ പരിണാമപഠനം

എന്തെല്ലാം പഠിപ്പിക്കണം? എങ്ങനെ പഠിപ്പിക്കണം?

15 KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS, 11 DIE

Despite ample laws and implementation structures, industries continue to release untreated effluents into the environment. What can be done to make the defaulters follow the law?

Lethal hypocrisy of US Special 301 Report

Patent protection in the US is a convoluted and expensive business and yet it pulls up other countries that have robust systems

Displaced by disasters

Climate emergency replaces wars and conflicts as the biggest global cause for internal displacement of people

Link as old as time

CONSIDERED AN ENIGMA TODAY, CHEETAH IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIAN HISTORY, NOTES WILDLIFE EXPERT DIVYABHANUSINH IN THE STORY OF INDIA’S CHEETAHS. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1995, A NEW EDITION OF THE BOOK WAS LAUNCHED RECENTLY, WITH A CHAPTER ON INDIA’S PROJECT CHEETAH

Small wonder?

The government believes that nano-fertiliser can improve soil health and help double agricultural income, but farmers and scientists remain unsure about its benefits

Amplifying discontent

Absence of a good census allows politicians to exploit aspirations, hopes, sentiments, language traditions and social identities of people in Manipur

Contamination Control Objectives: Cleanliness And Dryness

With contamination being the leading cause of machine failure, one of the most important sections of a lubrication program is contamination control

Risk Management: Comparing Human Health With Equipment Health

As the title would suggest, comparing human health to equipment asset health reveals some striking similarities, but also uncovers differences that should be considered

The Value of a Platform Lubrication Dedicated to Program Management

With an industry increasingly focused on improving machine reliability through the deployment of best practices in lubrication and oil analysis, there is a need to establish better management tools to accomplish these objectives

Machinery Configuration

Quick Wins that Optimize Machine Performance

Oil Analysis Pitfall!

For better or worse, our world is very connected

Make Touchstones of Lubrication Excellence Shine

Almost subconsciously, our senses gather information on our surroundings

KPIs to Ensure Proper Lubrication Selection

With the movement to digital solutions for tracking and managing most decisions that are made in reliability and maintenance, an area that is often left out is lubricant selection

LEAN MANUFACTURING EXPLAINED

Lean manufacturing or \"going lean,\" refers to a series of methods, philosophies and tools to minimize waste in your business and maximize production. Read about different ways your company can go lean

Will The Aral Sea Ever Come Back?

Forty years of “creeping environmental problems” built up into a mammoth monster insidiously sucking the great Aral Sea virtually dry