Faith Osier, Wellcome Trust In experiments conducted over 50 years ago, researchers showed that blood could be taken from adults who had become immune and used […]
Environmental and social activist, Agnes Kharshiing fighting to safeguard environment and was probing illegal coal mining in the state of Meghalaya was brutally assaulted […]
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment The Himalayan wetlands are under threat due to unregulated urbanisation and unsustainable tourism. Urgent attention […]
Chad Terhune In February, a federal watchdog estimated that California had signed up 450,000 people under Medicaid expansion who may not have been eligible for coverage. […]
Feng Hao After the IPCC’s urgent warning on climate change, will China speed up development of controversial carbon capture technologies? The UN Intergovernmental Panel […]
The National Waterways project should consider all ecological impacts and in an integrated manner along with all surface transport activities it has to engage […]
Ylva Rylander/SEI Nine to 33 million visits to the emergency room for asthma worldwide may be triggered by breathing in air polluted by ozone […]
Large scale industrialisation, especially extraction of coal from the Mahanadi basin, rapid urbanisation and climate change are some of the major causes for water stress situation in the...
Gabrielle Lipton On 11 October, the European Commission launched a new strategy to create a comprehensive bioeconomy – a ‘biosociety’ – and ultimately a carbon-neutral future. The […]
Prasanna Mohanty In the afternoon of October 20, a 40-year-old farmer in Sangrur district of Punjab torched his four-acre field covered with paddy stubble […]
On October 16, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government announced a 14 billion USD joint and exclusive development agreement with a consortium of […]
Barbara Axt Earth has the capacity to feed the world’s population on a healthy diet if countries make fundamental changes to their food production systems and consumption, a […]