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Featured photo: Seratobikiba/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Tribal communities in the Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh “signed away” their rights to carbon credits through a local NGO intermediary ...
As for improving air quality and quality of life during winter in north India, reassessing agricultural practices, irrigation, handling of crop residue and prevention of open fires could be a win-win.
(L-R) Meghnad Saha, S. Somanath and J.V. Narlikar. Photos: Wikimedia Commons Kolkata: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) helmsman S. Somanath ’s recent comments claiming Vedic roots to modern ...
A fire in Maui. Representative image. Photo: Kahunapule Michael Johnson/Flickr CC BY SA 2.0 One of the worst natural disasters in Hawaii’s history has killed at least 67 people and wiped out the ...
In October 2022, India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with other ministries and departments, announced that it would host a four-day conference called “Akash For Life” at a ...
Cost-effective surgical package options that are essential for the management of non-communicable diseases could have been included in the guidelines.
But given that solar power will play a huge role in India’s energy needs, how equitable and green is it? While India’s solar growth, as experts say, looks buoyant, questions are being raised about the ...
A male blue-eyed yellow bush frog vocalising. Photo: Seshadri.K.S/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Frogs use vocal acoustics to communicate a myriad of information. Males use advertisement calls to ...
Embodied emissions are released during the material sourcing, construction, and demolition stages of the building life cycle. They are unaccounted for in the existing versions of building codes.
The carbon footprint and calculator were popularised by Big Oil to shift blame for climate change from industry to the individual. But you can turn the tables and use these tools for good.
On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month. While the ...
The following article is an extended excerpt from ‘Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free’, a report prepared by researchers with the Basic Research Community for Physics (BRCP). It was ...