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Food Adulteration And Its Household Methods For Detection

The replacement of substance or material for another, such that a manufactured product is incorrectly labelled and/or dosage information is not in accordance with US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) requirements generally termed as adulteration or the alteration of any substance by the intentional addition of a component not originally part of that substance; usually used to imply that the substance is debased as a result.

To Save A King

On October 25, 2018, my friend Dr. Shilpa Penhayade came across a tiny bundle of feathers. A security guard had saved the resplendant Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher from stray dogs and crows at the District Hospital at Mapusa, Goa...

King Of The Hill!

The Amazing Story of Jawai’s Leopards.

Black Beauty

On A Search For Blackbuck In Bihar’s Grasslands

The Curious Mind

The urge to look towards the sky stems from an intrinsic human curiosity emanating out of not just scientific but also existential queries

Uncharted Territory

The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business

Not To Visit, But To Inhabit

The human civilisation is going to relocate for the first time, a part of it at least

Whose Space Is It?

Governments have been exploring space for a while, but the influx of private players has altered the rules of the game. What are the laws that govern space today?

Burden Of Relief

The Union government’s decision to exempt captive power plants from meeting renewable energy targets will upset India’s climate change mitigation plan

Orbits Of Debris

Space waste threatens the existence of all satellites

Hostile Space

A six-month stay in space induces physiological changes to the human body. A trip to Mars will be thrice that duration. Can astronauts survive the ordeal?

Arrival Of The Disruptors

A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for decades. Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?

Are We There Yet?

Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible in outer space

Are We Aliens?

There is a theory that says life could have intergalactic origin

Zero Budget Natural Farming

How to fix our broken food system and stop its collateral damage on Nature

The Quest For The Spirit Duck

Dew drops descending from the sky-high canopies of giant Hollong trees refreshed us as we moved deeper into the rainforests of Dehing-Patkai.

‘Bullet' Train Project

Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR)

Tribal Tigers

How a shamanic community has saved tigers in the Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh

The Sanctuary Interview - Meet Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj

An Indian Forest Service Offi cer, a tiger protector, a Great Indian Bustard protector, wildlife photographer par excellence, and a man whose heart beats for wild nature. Born in 1968, in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, he grew up in a tiny village called Narwana in Himachal Pradesh. He graduated in Biosciences from the Government College, Dharamsala and obtained a Masters in Botany and an M.Phil. from the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. The University of Rajasthan, Jaipur awarded him a Doctorate in 2011 for his thesis ‘Plant Resource Utilisation by Avianfauna in Sitamata Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India’. Clearly an academic, he has known Bittu Sahgal for over two decades and speaks to him about his love of photography and passion for wild nature.

The Giving Tree

“There’s a lump in my throat. Seven years ago when I stood here it was a pristine, wild, enigmatic forest. I camped for three nights on the river, tree-drenched mountains fencing us in and the constant chatter of the water keeping us company.

The ERDS Foundation

In early March 2019, Radheshyam Bishnoi, community volunteer of ERDS Foundation, formerly known as the Ecology and Rural Development Society, a non-profit organisation working in western Rajasthan, and his birding mentor Dr. Divesh Saini (Physician and supporter of ERDS Foundation) were birding in Pokhran in Jaisalmer district.

Dharti Rakshaks Of Melghat

Protecting wildlife and its habitats through GPS-based patrolling, tracking poachers with the help of sniffer dogs, conserving water in the forests till the summer months, catalysing the rebirth of grasslands – a forest guard wears many hats. Here are three extraordinary stories from the Melghat Tiger Reserve.

Martin Woodcock

(January 14, 1935 – February 24, 2019)

A Grazing Patch And A Cricket Pitch

Haven for Blackbuck and Harriers

Reverse Gear On Oil Palm

Sixteen years after the Supreme Court banned monoculture plantations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands' fragile ecosystem, the administration wants it revoked

March Against Asbestos

Though its use is banned in most countries, the asbestos industry continues to thrive at the cost of putting millions of people at risk

A Mountain Lost

The Aravalli mountain range extends for more than 692 km from Champaner in Gujarat to Delhi and beyond. Its role in defining the shape of the Indian subcontinent and its climate, and the fact that it triggered the explosion of multicellular life, are under-appreciated. The rugged mountains guide the monsoon clouds and protect the fertile alluvial river valleys from the assault of cold westerly winds from Central Asia. However, over the past four decades, the world's oldest mountain range has been destroyed by mining, deforestation and over-exploitation of its fragile and ancient water channels

'Natural Disasters Are Shaped By Social And Economic Inequality'

In the early hours of October 31, 1876, a devastating cyclone emanating from the Bay of Bengal drowned at least 0.21 million people and another 0.1 million died in the cholera epidemic and famine that followed. Such events are often described as "natural disasters". But historian BEN KINGSBURY turns that interpretation on its head in his book, An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876, showing it was not simply a "natural" event, but one shaped by all-too-human patterns of exploitation and inequality—by divisions within Bengali society, and the enormous disparities of political and economic power that characterised British rule on the subcontinent. RICHARD MAHAPATRA spoke to Kingsbury on the untold narratives of "natural disasters". Excerpts

'I Am A Farmer About To Commit Suicide. Can You Help Me? My Aadhaar Number Is...'

Ishan Kukreti reports on how psychologists are now intervening to help distressed farmers

Afloat Upon The Sound Of Silence

A Dreamy Journey Through Kerala’s Silent Valley