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Depleting Groundwater: Why Raj Farmers Can’t Use More Solar Pumps

As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of…

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Himalayan Communities And The Necessity Of Impact-Based Forecasting

When water levels rose in a tributary of the Koshi river during the 2019 monsoon, villagers of Launiya in Nepal’s…

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Is It Really Hotter Now Than Any Time In The Past 100,000 Years?

As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures…

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What Became Of The Model Renewable Energy Village In Tamil Nadu?

In recent years, Odanthurai, a village in Tamil Nadu, gained recognition as a self-reliant model village and has been appreciated…

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Rampant Poaching In Kuno Raises Questions About Safety Of Cheetahs

The Kuno National Park (KNP) has become the centre of attention across the world ever since the world's maiden 'cheetah…

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When Greenland Was Green And Warnings For The Future

About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the Sun’s rays on the island’s…

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What Comics Reveal About Gender, Democracy

Each July, comics fans, professionals and scholars descend on San Diego, California, for Comic-Con International – a celebration of the…

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History Of Encroachment, Diminishing Wetlands Behind Delhi’s Floods

When parts of Delhi were inundated with floodwaters several meters high in early July, several reports said that the river…

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MP Shocker: Dalit Claims Face, Body Smeared With Human Excreta

In another shocking incident involving caste faultlines in Madhya Pradesh, a Dalit man in the Chhatarpur district of the state…

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Surrogacy In India Not Just For Heterosexuals Who Are Married

India’s revised surrogacy law has been praised for outlawing commercial surrogacy, but it has also been criticised for restricting who…

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What Is Daily Life Like In Kyiv…?

I went to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, in June 2023 to visit an old friend and to better understand…

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India’s Tiger Reserves Have Helped In The Fight Against Climate Change

New research shows that India’s tiger conservation policy has not only helped in preserving and increasing tiger populations, but it…

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I.N.D.I.A Will Defeat BJP, Not Seeking Any Post: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed unwavering confidence that the I.N.D.I.A. (Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance) will defeat…

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A Narrow Window Of Opportunity To Increase Resilience In Asia-Pacific

The world faces a disaster emergency, yet nowhere is the threat more immediate than in Asia and the Pacific, which…

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Women’s Football Review Proposes Changes To Address Inequality

Women’s football and its players have been marginalised, ostracised, discredited and silenced for decades. More recently however, the momentum, performance…

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Restoring Mangroves, 1 Palmyra Leaf Nursery Bag At A Time

Sitting near her thatched hut, Achikkannu reaches for a set of dried palmyra (Borassus flabellifer) leaves kept on a fence,…

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Penalties, Passes And A Touch Of Politics: FIFA Women’s World Cup

The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off on Thursday night, the first football world cup hosted by Australia and…

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When Will We Stop Treating Women’s Bodies As Battlefields?

Women's bodies have been objects of patriarchal control for millennia. Objectifying, ridiculing and demeaning women on account of their bodily…

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Project Tiger Could Do Even Better: Experts

Fifty years after the launch of Project Tiger in India, the country hosts 75% of the world’s wild tigers, with…

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Too Little, Too Late: Congress On PM’s Manipur Video Remarks

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the incident of women being paraded naked in Manipur, the Congress said this…

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Ecologists Appeal To Govt Over FCA Bill, 2023

The amendment to the Forest Conservation Act passed through the committee phase last week. It is likely to be tabled…

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Public Bicycle Sharing: Lessons Learned From Three Indian Cities

Close to 2,000 public bicycle-sharing (PBS) systems are operational around the world, providing flexible mobility as users can pick up…

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What Next As The Planet Gets Hotter…?

The planet is baking. Southern Europe is sweltering through a record heatwave with temperatures tipped to surpass the European record…

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Akhilesh Yadav Says NDA’s Delhi Meeting Was Its Farewell Ceremony

Taking a dig at the BJP-led NDA, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that the recent meeting of…

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Kerala’s Dwindling Mangroves Need Concerted Effort In Conservation

When 1000 kilometres of mangrove tidal wetland vegetation, along the shoreline of Australia’s remote Gulf of Carpentaria, died en masse…

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