Heat-Related Deaths Up By 68% In Recent Past: Lancet Report
(Source: PTI) Heat-related deaths increased by 68 per cent between 2000-2004 and 2017-2021, while vulnerable populations — the elderly and...
Pratirodh Bureau
Malnourished, Obese: The Food Future We Face
Families are feeling the pinch of rising food prices. Fresh fruit and vegetables are often no longer affordable. And many...
Death Toll In Myanmar Air Attack Rises To 80
(Source: PTI) Air strikes by Myanmar's military killed as many as 80 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary...
Where Did Our Millions Of Working Women Go?
Since the turn of the millennium, women have been leaving the workforce in India. Over 40.4 million fewer women are in paid...
Why Indians With Means Still Use Plastic
Public outreach campaigns educate consumers with compelling data and storytelling about carbon footprints, natural resource scarcity, and climate change. Data...
What Really Works To Reduce Poverty
Bangladesh, often held up as a model for poverty reduction, has influenced many poverty reduction initiatives around the world. In 2002,...
India Needs Legal Framework To Close Mines, Power Plants
India is on the way to decommissioning thermal power plants (TPP) and disposing of coal mines at a large scale...
Crackers Burst Despite Ban, Delhi’s Air Quality Turns ‘Very Poor’
(Source: PTI) A large number of high-decibel firecrackers thundered throughout Diwali night on Monday as people in Delhi flouted the...
Rushdie Loses Sight In Eye After Knife Attack
(Source: PTI) Salman Rushdie has lost sight in an eye and his one hand is incapacitated following the brutal knife...
What We Have Reduced Religion To Is Tragic: Supreme Court
(Source: PTI) "Where have we reached in the name of religion, what have we reduced religion to is tragic," an...
Mumbai Must Listen To Its Fishing Communities
Coastal cities and settlements are at the forefront of climate disruption. Rising sea levels, warmer seas and changes in rainfall...
Rahul Says BJP, RSS Have Spread Hatred And Violence Everywhere
(Source: PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the BJP and RSS of spreading hatred and violence everywhere in...
Rajasthan Is Getting Wetter And It Is Not Good News For Desert Ecology
Environmental changes, including changing rainfall patterns and vegetation, have affected Rajasthan’s desert ecology, impacting local flora and fauna. Rajasthan, the...
Whatever Happens At COP27, Climate Finance Must Be Overhauled
Last year, it was the pandemic. This year, it is the war in Ukraine. The global conversation on climate change...
WHO Chief Scientist Says Omicron Variant May Cause Another Covid Wave
(Source: PTI) Chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Soumya Swaminathan, on Thursday said some countries may see...
Farmers Continue Protests Against Proposed IIT Campus In Goa
Tribal tenant farmers from Goa’s interior Sanguem and Quepem sub districts have been protesting against the proposed Indian Institute of...
Nature Recurs In Rajasthan’s Folk Songs
It’s dawn on a summer day in Sanwata village in the desert state of Rajasthan. Even at this early hour,...
Comment: South Asia Needs Equitable Cooling As Heatwaves Worsen
At a construction site on the outskirts of New Delhi, Ravinder Kumar, a mason, spends his days slicing giant luminescent...
Violence Against Women Is ‘Big Cancer’, Says UN Chief
(Source: PTI) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday termed violence against women a “big cancer” and called for...
Elnaz Rekabi, Who Competed Without Hijab, Is Back In Iran
(Source: AP) Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Tehran early Wednesday after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf,...
Children Starve As Yemen Teeters On A Return To Fighting
(Source: AP) An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Her body is covered...
Analysis: Where Is India Spending More, Fossil Fuels Or Renewables?
Is India embracing renewables or fossil fuels? On the one hand, there are the commitments India has made to decarbonise...
‘Animism’: How Animals, Places & Plants Have Power Over Humans
A movement known as “new animism,” which seeks to secure personhood rights for nonhuman beings through legal means, is gaining...
Talk Of Respect For Women, But Support For Rapists: Rahul Slams PM
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the remission to the convicts in the Bilkis...
Suu Kyi’s Last Corruption Trial To Go On: Court
A court in military-ruled Myanmar ruled Tuesday that the last trial for corruption of the country's ousted leader Aung San...
