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Plastic endgame

The world's adoption of the resolution to end plastic pollution by 2024 is only the first step in a long battle

GOOD WHILE IT LASTED

Earth is losing species at an unprecedented rate, which, many believe, is the planet's sixth mass extinction. Since the biodiversity loss this time is the doing of humans, the event also marks the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch, a self-aggrandising nomenclature that highlights our disproportionate and irreversible impacts on the surroundings

'Compromise' on TRIPS waiver is a sellout

Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools

Antimicrobial Resistance In Post-Pandemic Era

Over the years microorganisms have developed Oresistance to antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals, antimalarials, and anthelmintics by a phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

How The Human Brain Separates, Stores, And Retrieves Memories

Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred. This finding improves our understanding of how the human brain forms memories and could have implications in memory disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

Good News For Coffee Lovers: Daily Coffee May Benefit The Heart

Drinking coffee particularly two to three cups a day is not only associated with a lower risk of heart disease and dangerous heart rhythms but also with living longer, according to studies being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Annual Scientific Session.

Scientific Principle Of Beneficial Effects Of Yoga Practices In Covid19

A virus is a sub-microscopic infectious particle that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses are present almost everywhere and all living creatures including humans are getting infected with them on daily basis.

5 Ancient Indian Foods Still Eaten Today

From Ladoo to saag, Insian ancient ancestors were consuming some of our favorite foods well before we may have realized.

Indoor Air Pollution in India & Its Neglected Outcomes

Certainly, air pollution remained most serious health Cthreat globally for decades. It has caused substantial harm to human health, nature (environment) and economy.

How Many Nuclear Warhead Exist, And Who Has Them?

Since Russia first invaded Ukraine nearly three weeks ago, the threat of nuclear weapon use has risen. The bombs get their energy from either splitting atoms or joining the tiny particles inside the atoms together.

Urban ladder

Safely managing faecal sludge is India's new sanitation challenge. In the absence of adequate rural treatment plants, a few states rope in underutilised urban facilities

Organic boost

Farmer producer organisations can help organic farming initiatives overcome marketing hindrances

Bizarre Patent Tussles Over A Covid-19 Jab

Moderna's many intellectual property disputes over its vaccine highlight the need for a patent-free regime to fight the pandemic

Climate Justice, Now

IPCC's latest climate report provides evidence that climate-justice needs to be at the centre of global policymaking

To what end

West Bengal has decided to mine coal from a reserve so deep and unreachable that the extraction might turn out to be financially unviable, and still end up displacing 21,000 people

‘Observations will help trace our cosmic roots'

Early last month, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) opened its 18 golden mirrors to the universe and captured its first image-ofa sun-like star called HD-84406, some 260 light years from the Earth. The telescope was launched on December 25, 2021, and took 30 days to travel 1.5 million km from Earth in a direction opposite to the Sun to reach its destination-a gravitationally stable point named L2—from where it will orbit the Sun, slightly changing its position every three weeks to stay in a halo orbit.

Pre-emptive strike

The popularity of anti-hail cannons among Himachal Pradesh farmers has made the state build an indigenous version, though the efficacy of such devices is unproven

Bullish turn

Post mechanisation, for the first time there is innovation in farm equipment to revive bullocks and aid small farmers

South Africa's vaccine advance brings hope

The WHO-aided tech transfer hub in South Africa is set to change the outlook for a continent deprived of COVID-19 vaccines

Space for nuclear

From fuel to outer space power plants, the world is developing different usages of nuclear energy to explore the deep space

FAULTY GROUND

The stretch of the Cauvery where Karnataka plans to build the Mekedatu dam lies alonga fault plane and in a geologically unstable region

Blue hydrogen not really green

Reliance Industries on February 12 announced an intent to become "the world's top blue hydrogen producer" by repurposing a 30,000 crore synthetic gas plant to manufacture the fuel.

BIOLOGICAL GOLD MINE

An emerging science explores how faecal analysis can revolutionise disease diagnosis and treatment

Endemic Not The End

We know that the novel coronavirus will be with us forever. Without undermining the threat it poses, we must learn how to live with it by adapting strategies developed in previous pandemics

United they stand

Women farmers in 30 villages of Madhya Pradesh join hands to command a higher price for their groundnut produce

Rewarding incompetence

India's new star-rating system to promote state agencies that give hasty environmental clearances to projects

Natural option

Organic and natural farming approaches are not only profitable and sustainable, but also productive

WHITHER AMRIT KAAL

The Union Budget 2022-23 did not talk about the developmental targets promised for this year under the Strategy for New India@75, but set the country on a new journey of hope till 2047

NET GAIN

In its journey to the Bay of Bengal, the Brahmaputra carves out different types of waterbodies along Assam's landscape.

India trips on its patent waiver proposal

Delhi has not backed its WTO proposal to suspend intellectual property rights on COVID-19 pharma products with robust action