First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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March had lowest air pollution in 4 yrs
Erratic Weather Influencing Air Quality This March recorded the lowest particulate matter (PM2.5) levels—fine, respirable pollutants—in the past four years. While this could seem like a relief at the
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Nanoe-G Technology: Saving your Right to Breathe
More people die in road crashes in India than anywhere else in the world. Every year, road accidents in India claim 1,42,485 lives. But there's something else that kills 6 times as many. Air pollution has become the 5th largest cause of death in India, with over 6,20,000 premature deaths. Globally, air pollution related deaths have increased 300%.
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IPCC warns over greater risk to food and water security
The climate change-related risks from extreme events such as floods and heat waves will rise further with global warming, aggravating food and water insecurity, especially for some of the poorest communities,
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Government calls for urgent action on IPCC climate report
Climate change experts from both the government and private thinktanks on Tuesday backed calls for urgent action in response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) report that warned
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Value every raindrop
Water management is about society and its ability to build technologies to maximise the use of water and, more importantly, technologies to share water with all March 22 is World Water Day. There is no doubt that water will determine whether India becomes wealthy or remains poor. But the management of water is not simply about building more dams or pipelines to take the water to our cities and then more pipelines to flush the waste from our homes.
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World Water Day: UN report predicts grim scenario for India; experts pitch for making water conservation a national obsession
As the world is already staring at impending water crisis due to climate change, population increase and pollution, a UN report has predicted that as many as 3.4 billion people will be living in "water-scarce" countries by 2025. It also pointed out that the situation will be deteriorated further in the next 25 years (by 2050), culminating into instances of human conflicts in many parts of the globe.
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West cannot ask India to stop using coal: Sunita Narain
Noted environmentalist Sunita Narain has said the West cannot ask India to stop using coal while they were still "addicted" to it. "You need to get rid of hypocracy. You cannot tell me that India cannot go coal when Australia, Germany, US and lot of other countries are still addicted to coal," said Narain, director-general of Centre of Science and Environment.
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Centre set to ban sale of junk food, aerated drinks in schools
The junk is being taken out of children's lives across the nation. The Centre is set to ban the sale of junk food in school canteens and around school premises across the country soon. In its final guidelines
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HC panel split on school junk food ban
Industry Comes Up With Policy Putting Onus On Student; Experts Not Sure If It’s Feasible A Delhi high court panel to look into dietary habits of school-going children is split on the question of banning sale of junk food in and around educational institutions.
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Western Ghats - lessons in protection
Madhav Gadgil and K Kasturirangan are both scientists of great repute. But both are caught up in a controversy on how the Western Ghats - the vast biological treasure trove spread over the states of Gujarat,