Environment
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3.5K1Cars the culprits in Delhi’s pollution highways!
Cars and SUVs together contribute 66 percent of the particulate load from all incoming traffic (excluding trucks and light commercial vehicles).
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4.5KNew wetland rules to weaken India’s fight against disasters
There are millions of them starting from small ponds we find in almost each habitation to large lagoons such as the Chilika...
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3.3KHow climate change may puncture the great urban aspiration
Today, the symbol of progress is defined in term of urbanisation. The recent decades have seen fast growth of cities in human...
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4.7K2Drought management: Going beyond knee-jerk response
The court has pointed out a lot of loopholes in current drought management practices and shows how the existing mechanisms have failed...
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6.8KMaharashtra water crisis and insensitive ruling class
The collection of water has become the day’s main job for millions of poor people in rural areas of the state.
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4.1KCricket, conscience and our common water future
The Vidarbha region that covers Nagpur witnessed most of the farmer suicides. IPL matches will be played in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur.
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8.8KA paradise of wildlife in eastern India
The Olive Ridley sea turtles which arrive every year to breed on the coast of Bay of Bengal have put the state...
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3.3K1Are we bracing for hottest summer ever?
With 1.5 degree Celsius warmer than average temperature recorded for the month, it has already sounded the loudest climate catastrophe warning.
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14.6KGreen light could save sea turtles from dying!
Conservationists have been trying to find ways to save thousands of sea turtles who die as by-catch in gillnet fisheries every year.
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4.0K1Travelling to Mars for water: Will it help?
Do these discoveries assure us of water when it vanishes from Earth? So are we all travelling to Moon and Mars drinking...