International Tiger Day: How Royal Bengal Tiger thrives in India
Some good news for tiger and wildlife conservationists at this International Tiger Day. The Royal Bengal Tiger is thriving as well as multiplying at the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park (RGONP). This national park has the highest density of tigers, which is higher...
Waste Segregation is the Way Forward for Fighting Pollution: Dia Mirza
The law on waste segregation was established way back in the year 1992. The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai had issued a directive to the citizens that if you do not segregate the waste, then we will not collect the waste. This was in the year 1992, we are now in...
Rohingya Muslim Refugees Face Monsoons and Disease: Will They Make It?
Seasons change but lives of Rohingya Muslim refugees, camped on the hills of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, continues to be a struggle. Water remains a permanent source of woes. In dry season, they struggled to get water in order to survive. In wet season, they are...
Air Pollution Causes Diabetes: Washington University School of Medicine
Air pollution was the cause of 1 in 7 new cases of diabetes in the year 2016. The findings were made by a USA study that also found that low levels raises chances of developing a chronic form of the disease. Diabetes has been associated with various lifestyle factors...
National Policy on Biofuels: Why India failed to Meet Ethanol Target
The National Policy on Biofuels had set an indicative target of 20% blending of ethanol in petrol by 2017. The policy was put in place in an attempt to lower down GHG emissions and boost domestic ethanol production in the country. But India was unable to meet this...
Bag for Cause: Beat Plastic Pollution for Sustainable Development Goals
With the plastic ban coming into effect in Maharashtra, several enterprising entrepreneurs have come up with viable solutions to fight the plastic menace. Plastic, non-woven bags, E-waste have hazardous impacts on the environment, nature, human and animal lives. It is...
India Unsafe for Women: A Critical Analysis of Thomson Reuters Report
The international report declaring that India is the worst place for women to live indicates the state of society we have in twenty first century. The status of women is a criteria for judging development and progress of a society. The report by the Thomson Reuters...
Mismanaged response to Assam floods: Natural Disaster in India
Kamalakhya Dey Purkaystha, who is a member of Assam Legislative Assembly, was the one who led the boat which carried the dead bodies of Kulendra Malakar and Mishu Malakar, people who got killed in the on-going Assam floods, from Sharifnagar in Karimganj. The bodies...
A Poetic Tribute to the Mighty Pascagoula: The Mississippi’s Singing River
In moments of lucidity, Mississippi remembers an old friend, an old timorous friend, a nimble, whistling old friend flowing a basin across. The Pascagoula. Pascagoula River has only one famous story. How many stories can an 80 mile river have? Her people use it to...
Strengthen Forest Rights for Climate Change Action: Draft Forest Policy
By Ranjan K Panda -- There has been a new wave of admiration in India of our traditional knowledge, which has emerged in public discourse. But it’s not reflected in ways the State wants to manage our own forests. Politicians, intellectuals, and bureaucrats publically...
Kanpur Innovators Fight Water Pollution: Flower Waste Management
No one thinks that something as charming and enticing as flowers can be sources of toxicity. Flowers, which are used at places of worship, are often disposed of into water bodies such as rivers, lakes, oceans, etc. Every year, about 80, 00,000 tons of such wasted...
Solar Energy Innovation to Curb Pollution in Water Bodies, Rivers, Oceans
Students can contribute a lot to the development of the society and they are providing cutting edge innovation in instances where professionals have been caught napping. Therefore, we need to nurture the creativity and innovative spirit of today’s youth. Their ideas...