Why We Need To Worry About Fossil Fuels
We are living in the 21st century, the world’s population is about 7.6 billion today, and it is expected to be 10 billion by 2050. Such a growing size is putting pressure on our ecology. Biodiversity...
View Article“मेरे गाँव की शादियों की दावत में अभी भी दलितों को अलग बैठाया जाता है”
स्कूल में गणित के शिक्षक जब सरनेम पूछते थे, उस वक्त अंदाज़ा नहीं होता था कि वह सरनेम नहीं बल्कि मेरी जाति जानना चाहते हैं। कई दफा ऐसा हुआ है जब मास्टर साहब ने मेरी जाति जाननी चाही मगर 2-3 क्लास के...
View ArticleAren’t We Morally Obligated To Hand Over A ‘Liveable’ Planet To Our Next...
If you love your children or your future children, please listen to me for just 10 minutes. Climate change is currently the ‘most relevant’ issue of our lives. It is affecting and will affect the whole...
View ArticleWhile The SC Has Restricted Further Felling Of Trees, Is It Enough To Save...
Image: Metro construction in progress at Cuffe Parade, Mumbai “It is the beginning of the end,” lamented Abhay Azad, a citizen activist who has been involved with the “Save Aarey” community for the...
View Articleअमेज़न जंगल जलने से 500 किस्म की प्रजातियों पर मंडरा रहा है संकट
ब्राज़ील में अमेज़न के जंगल भयावह आग की चपेट में हैं और जंगलों में फैली आग की लपटें मानवजनित विनाश को भयावह रूप दे रही हैं। 55 करोड़ हेक्टेयर में फैले इन वनों में एक आंकलन के अनुसार लगभग आठ लाख एकड़ के...
View Article#WorldMentalHealthDay: Climate Change Is Causing Young People To Develop...
World mental health day is celebrated every year on 10th October, since 1992. It deals with awareness and advocacy for social stigmas surrounding mental illness. With respect to this, my sole...
View ArticleSlow Dancing In A Burning Room: The Climate Crisis And I
If you know me, you know that there’s a 73% chance – at any given point in time – that I will be a ball of anxiety. You would also know that I’m a Statistics graduate, so I don’t make up the numbers....
View ArticleEco-Anxiety Is Real And Here’s How You Can Tackle It!
With polar ice caps melting, the ozone hole widening, species extinction, unregulated climate change, dwindling green spaces, erratic rainfall, floods and drought – we sure are heading towards the...
View ArticleFood Waste Is A Driver Of Climate Change: What Do We Know And What Are We...
Food waste imposes significant global economic, social and natural resource costs. One-third of food produced for consumption is currently lost or wasted, where over one billion people are...
View ArticleHow Period Poverty In India Has Led To Some Frightening Situations
8220;Glad her words don’t shed blood!” – Ruftaz Raj In India, a lot of girls miss school days for numerous reasons, and today, I will be talking about that one reason which we don’t give much...
View ArticleOur Growing Water Footprint Calls For Sustainable Irrigation Practices
Local ladies gather to fill water from the only well in the area at Gorai village, Borivli. In cases of severe water shortage, women become the people in the family to travel long distances to fetch...
View ArticleClimate Anxiety Is Very Real And It’s On The Rise Among Indian Millennials
By Shikha Sharma Growing up as an adult in a world facing an environmental crisis has to be terrifying. After all, it’s tough to be hopeful as you watch the world fold in on itself, one climatic...
View Article‘Why Take Such A Risk, Educating A Girl?’: I Overcame All Odds To Get An...
By Ishrath Parveen: Growing up, I belonged to a family that is considered ‘completely economically backward’. My father was a seasonal employee, and providing for the household and paying for my...
View ArticleWhen Activists Are Humiliated By The Police, How Can We Not Expect Eco-Anxiety?
If a rank list were to be released of the ones who compromise, sacrifice and tolerate the most, our environment, after mother, would’ve stood at the 2nd position! It is taken for granted by almost...
View ArticleThis Is How Menstrual Myths Allow Brahmanical Patriarchy And Caste Purity To...
In Telugu brahmin families, a girl’s menarche (first menses) is announced to all near and dear ones by means of a pedda manishi (literally, adult person) function. This involves her sitting on a stage,...
View ArticleIs The Plight Of Climate Migrants Not Alarming Enough Already?
Climate migration has been on the rise globally. During 2010-11, Asia and the Pacific saw more than 42 million people displaced by extreme weather events. In India alone, approximately 1.5 million...
View Articleकिसानों के पराली जलाने से धुंध की चपेट में आ रही है दिल्ली
अभी कुछ वक्त पहले ही दिल्ली का वातावरण स्वच्छ था, क्योंकि इससे सटे इलाकों में अच्छी बारिश हुई थी मगर अब हालात बदल चुके हैं और लोग फिर मास्क पहनने को मजबूर हो गए हैं। दिल्ली वालों को साफ हवा ना जाने कब...
View ArticleAre Plantation Forests Eco Friendly Or Just ‘Green Deserts’?
A forest is a complex, biodiversity-rich, self-regenerating ecosystem, consisting of soil, water, microclimate, and a wide variety of plants and animals in mutual coexistence, on a piece of land. Trees...
View Articleक्यों ज़रूरी है जलवायु परिवर्तन से होने वाले पलायन का अंतरराष्ट्रीय मुद्दा बनना
साल था 2009, स्थल था कोपेनहेगन। बांग्लादेश का कहना था कि अगले 40 सालों में हमारे 20 लाख लोग पलायन करेंगे और सौ से ज़्यादा ग्रामवासी भू-जल में खारा पानी पिएंगे। अगर कोई विपरीत संकट आता है, तो उससे बाहर...
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