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Burst Of Spice
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Burst Of Spice

Bhut Jolokia, One Of The Hottest Chillies, Went Through A Dip In Its Intense Spiciness And Price When Its Production Spread And Cross- Pollination Began On A Large Scale

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October 16, 2019
What The Dog Saw
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What The Dog Saw

Noel Fitzpatrick, The Celebrity Vet Behind The Channel 4 Show The Supervet, Recounts His Often-surprising Journey In A Memoir That Celebrates The Bond Between Humans And Animals

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October 16, 2019
Relocation Charade
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Relocation Charade

21 tribal families say forest officials allied with property dealers to dupe them of the money they received for relocating from Tamil Nadu’s Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

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October 16, 2019
Towards Turbulence
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Towards Turbulence

As countries grapple with intense marine heat waves and stronger storms, the latest IPCC report says climate change has already altered our oceans, polar regions and high snowy mountains

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October 16, 2019
Congratulations! India Is Open Defecation Free
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Congratulations! India Is Open Defecation Free

On Mahatma Gandhi’s 150 th birthday, India becomes open defecation free. While it is an occasion to celebrate the achievement of creating millions of toilets in record time, it is also a time to plan for ensuring that the gains made are not lost and the pollution remains checked. Down To Earth reporters travel to 13 districts in six states to gauge if India can sustain its open defecation-free status, while Sushmita Sengupta and Snigdha Das analyse the challenges ahead

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October 1, 2019
Insects As Food!
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Insects As Food!

Will insects become an integral part of our diets, again?

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October 1, 2019
How Food Travelled Throughout The World
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How Food Travelled Throughout The World

Evolution ensured people adopted new foods through generations of experiments. But in a fast globalising age, this tradition has been bypassed

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October 1, 2019
Mahatma Gandhi's Environmentalism
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Mahatma Gandhi's Environmentalism

Gandhi’s personal lifestyle choices are not what make him crucial to the future of our species. What matters more is to understand why Gandhi anticipated the environmental crisis more than half a century before the term “sustainable development” was coined.

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October 1, 2019
The Peasant Rebels
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The Peasant Rebels

THE BOOK IS A FICTIONAL RETELL OF THE SATNAMI REVOLT AGAINST AURANGZEB, AND UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF REBELLION IN TIMES OF OPPRESSION

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October 1, 2019
The Importance Of Justification In Conservation
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The Importance Of Justification In Conservation

Why we should not stray away from the idea of justice in conservation in a rapidly changing planet

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September 16, 2019
The Gaps In Closing The Ozone Hole
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The Gaps In Closing The Ozone Hole

The cooling industry which first drilled the hole in the ozone layer is now burning the whole planet

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September 16, 2019
The Union Government Lends A Helping Hand To A Multinational Central
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The Union Government Lends A Helping Hand To A Multinational Central

The Centre’s decision to provide only fortified food items under government schemes will ensure an annual market of over ₹3,000 crore to just five multinational companies

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September 16, 2019
How To Create Floods
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How To Create Floods

Dams were built to control floods. They are now the triggers

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September 16, 2019
Transition In Nilgiris
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Transition In Nilgiris

A laggard hill district’s journey to become open defecation free also led to it embracing organic farming

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September 16, 2019
Tracking Smoke
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Tracking Smoke

Effective implementation of an efficient pollution monitoring system is caught in delays

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September 16, 2019
Full Measure
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Full Measure

THE ROLE OF THE NATIONAL AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME IS CRITICAL TO REVERSE THE TREND OF DEPLETING GROUNDWATER LEVELS ACROSS INDIA

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September 16, 2019
Burning Dark
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Burning Dark

From the Arctic to the Amazon, fires are raging at an unprecedented scale, stoking an unfathomable fear: is the planet staring at an irreversible meltdown?

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September 16, 2019
Value Of Soil
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Value Of Soil

The benefits of action against land degradation through sustainable management are seven times higher than its cost in 15 years

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September 01, 2019
Think How To Sink
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Think How To Sink

The best way to remove carbon is by sequestering it in its natural sinks

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September 01, 2019
How To Create An Oasis
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How To Create An Oasis

Neither a short-term solution nor a one-size-fits-all approach will help fight desertification. Governments tend to commit this mistake, but communities across the world are building on their traditional experiences to achieve land degradation neutrality

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September 01, 2019
The Dictum On Desertification
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The Dictum On Desertification

LAND IS AT THE CORE OF FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE

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September 01, 2019
Taming The Thar
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Taming The Thar

What it takes to reclaim the world’s most populated desert

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September 01, 2019
Silent Spread
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Silent Spread

More than 100 countries are at the risk of desertification. Left unchecked, this could fuel conflicts and displace 700 million people worldwide by 2050

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September 01, 2019
Picture Imperfect
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Picture Imperfect

It’s difficult to ignore how desertification is expanding in areas that are on the front line of climate change

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September 01, 2019
Quash The Dogma
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Quash The Dogma

Most policies to tackle desertification are bound to fail. The problem will get solved as soon as they become holistic

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September 01, 2019
It Is Everybody's Business
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It Is Everybody's Business

Private sector is vital to restore land and sustain life

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September 01, 2019
A Quarter Under Desertification
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A Quarter Under Desertification

What does this mean for India where more than 60 per cent of the population depends on agriculture?

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September 01, 2019
Trouble For Tomato
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Trouble For Tomato

Country's biggest tomato producing district surrenders to cheap Chinese pulp

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April 01, 2019
Ask No Questions!
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Ask No Questions!

The amendment to the RTI Act will hit grassroots activism

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August 16, 2019
Mortal Combat
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Mortal Combat

Can life be extended indefinitely? There is a renewed vigour among scientists looking for ways and means to cheat death.

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January 16, 2017