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Wild And Nutritious

Gaithi, a tuber variety that grows in the hills of Uttarakhand, has both nutritive and medicinal properties

The Right Pill

Africa will be setting up its first agency to check the spread of spurious drugs

Reign Over Rain

Rainfall deficit can be a challenge as well as an opportunity. Last year, Dhanbad faced a rainfall deficit of 60 per cent. EKLAVYA PRASAD narrates his personal experience of catching rainwater where it falls in his home, Uttarayan. By constructing rainwater harvesting structures, Uttarayan not only showed the way to address urban water scarcity, it also helped recharge groundwater with 1.06 million litres of rainwater

Try Some Salt, Fresh And Seasoned

Uttarakhand's age-old flavoured salts loaded with micronutrients are not only a healthy option, but can also tickle your taste buds

Corridor Catharsis

The proposed Similipal-Satkosia wildlife corridor in Odisha can be connecting link for the survival of endangered species. But mining activities need to be eliminated

Anthropocene In The Arctic

A behind the scenes account of how the scientific community came to terms with the changing landscape of the Arctic

Drowning In Debris

Construction and demolition waste is piling up across India. Regulations are in place, but recycling is yet to gain momentum.AVIKAL SOMVANSHI breaks down the cartouche of waste mismanagement

Why We Need A Circular Economy

Reusing products is not only necessary for a sustainable future, but also makes business sense

Crisis Management

Jared Diamond's latest book espouses that nations can come out of a crisis just the way people do Ishan Kukreti

Curbing True Lies

The answer may not be to enact laws to ban fake news, as Singapore has recently done.

Scorcher

Heat waves have swept 23 Indian states and union territories claiming lives and throttling livelihoods. They are breaching boundaries across the world and are also becoming more intense. What can we do to cope with it?

Wild Delight

Sohphie, a sweet-and-sour fruit, marks the arrival of spring in Meghalaya. It is relished raw as well as in pickles Shalini Dhyani.

Who Is Economically Secular?

The rich have the chance to get richer in an economic crisis, while the poor face the prospect of sinking deeper in poverty

Conflict Of Diet

It's not just fragmented corridors that take elephants to farms. They get drawn towards crops that improve their state of mind and well-being

Good Old Sap

Gums secreted by trees are a treasure trove of nutrition and have been used by communities in making seasonal delicacies

Whose Waste Is It?

Producers are shifting their plastic recovery responsibility to other companies

Let Cauvery Be

Deforestation, urbanisation, illegal mining and dumping of effluents along the river has left the basin battered and bruised. Decades of degradation has led to an unprecedented crisis for the 15 million who live on its banks.Jitendra travels along the course of one of India’s biggest rivers to understand why its level hit a record low this year

One Tool To Track It All

Can the humongous online data generated in the job guarantee scheme be a real time index for rural distress?

Arrival Of The Disruptors

A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for decades. Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?

Burden Of Relief

The Union government’s decision to exempt captive power plants from meeting renewable energy targets will upset India’s climate change mitigation plan

Uncharted Territory

The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business

Not To Visit, But To Inhabit

The human civilisation is going to relocate for the first time, a part of it at least

Hostile Space

A six-month stay in space induces physiological changes to the human body. A trip to Mars will be thrice that duration. Can astronauts survive the ordeal?

Are We There Yet?

Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible in outer space

Orbits Of Debris

Space waste threatens the existence of all satellites

Are We Aliens?

There is a theory that says life could have intergalactic origin

Serpentine Problem

WHO now recognises snakebite as a neglected disease. But India, which has the highest number of snakebite deaths, is woefully ill-prepared in tackling the problem

Inking Solutions To Pollution

Two Indian startups are converting polluted air particles into inks and paints

Back To Bins

The City Corporation of Panaji wants to discontinue the decentralised waste management system that helped it become a bin-free city

Aral Apocalypse

The Aral Sea has shrunk to a fourth of its size. Neha Mungekar travels to Uzbekistan and recounts how it remains a living sample of a monumental human-made ecological catastrophe