National Energy Conservation Day: Pledge to save power for a green planet
As India celebrates it National Energy Conservation Day, we all know that global warming and climate change are assuming drastic proportions with time. According to figures by NASA, temperatures globally have gone up by over 1 degree since 1880, whereas 9 out of the...
World Human Rights Day: Polaris Project & Big Data fight child trafficking
At this World Human Rights Day, let us see how various forms of human exploitation can be combated in the modern world. One of the biggest human rights issues is human trafficking. Law enforcement agencies are expected to take the lead in anti-trafficking measures....
World Aids Day: Science & research need innovation for HIV cure
Why has humankind been unable to find a treatment for the dreaded AIDS disease that kills many people across the world every year? Which factor is hindering a breakthrough? This World AIDS Day is the perfect occasion to take stock of the situation. Despite the big...
Tesla Semi Truck: A green, sustainable solution to Air Pollution?
Delhi is a gas chamber. Air Quality Index recently breached the most hazardous value. It is like smoking 50 cigarettes in a day. People are now forced to leave the city. As the air quality in India's national capital plummeted, emergency measures had to be applied to...
Mumbai, New York, London face flooding from rising sea levels: NASA
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) study has predicted that certain cities face the most threat due to rising sea levels due to melting ice caps that is triggered by climate change and global warming. The NASA tool has warned that Mumbai, New York,...
India should install rooftop solar power panels like China: Green Energy
In September 2017, I was travelling in China on a holiday. Amongst the many surprises regarding the way China had developed, during a bullet train travel from the city of Wuhan to Shanghai, I noticed hundreds of apartment buildings with solar energy panels on rooftop....
10 best air purifiers to fight Delhi Smog and air pollution in India
There is a state of medical emergency in Delhi. The Delhi Smog is so hazardous that it is equal to smoking 50 cigarettes a day. Stubble burning and Diwali pollution has turned the National Capital into a ‘gas chamber.’ Air quality index is 5 times worse than the limit...
Plants which fight air pollution & improve air quality index
Pollution in Delhi is at hazardous levels. Stubble burning and Diwali pollution is turning India’s National Capital into a ‘gas chamber.’ Delhi smog is affecting visibility, trains and flights. It is also permeating homes as well as underground metro stations....
I am very close to nature, says Bigg Boss contestant & Actor Claudia Ciesla
We all understand the problems that modern development and lifestyle have caused for humankind’s only habitat, which is planet Earth. Pollution, global warming and climate change are their peak. In such a situation, it is our responsibility to be sensitive towards our...
3 plants can save your life and lungs: Fight indoors air pollution
Pollution killed 6.5 million people globally, says a report by The Lancet. One of the forms of air pollution that often escapes our attention is that inside homes; in fact, indoor air quality can be worse than the outside at times. It can lead to diseases and ailments...
Use Big Data Analytics to cut pollution: Technology
Global warming and climate change stare at humankind. However, US President Donald Trump doesn't believe in it. He has taken the USA out of an environment treaty: the Paris Climate Accord. NASA says globally temperatures have increased by 1 degree since 1880. Arctic...
5 Bollywood celebrities who care about the environment: The green brigade
Global warming and climate change are hard realities. Pollution levels and ecological degradation have reach unprecedented levels; Delhi’s air was toxic on Diwali night. Scientists and researchers say that climate change and pollution is triggering hurricanes and...