Climate Change Is Not Just The Govt’s Problem To Solve; All Of Us Need To Get...
Everyone has heard and seen the recent phenomenal and empowering speech by Greta Thunberg, aged 16. After watching her speech, everyone might be wondering how a school going child could be so...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Is Going To Affect The Spread Of Diseases
We are living in the 21st Century, the ‘century of climate change‘. Climate change will directly lead to negative health impacts. By 2100, it is estimated that average global temperatures will have...
View Article“पर्यावरण रक्षा के लिए आवाज़ उठाने पर सत्ता को घबराहट क्यों होती है?”
दुनिया में आज के समय की सबसे बड़ी समस्या पर्यावरण प्रदूषण की हो गई है। यह प्रदूषण दुनिया के सभी लोगों को किसी ना किसी तरह से प्रभावित कर रहा हैह। कहीं य वायु प्रदूषण के रूप में, तो कहीं यह जल प्रदूषण के...
View ArticleDomino-Effect Of Climate Change Will Hamper Access To Education. Here’s How.
Climate change and access to education seem to have the faintest of connections on the surface, but multiple studies have found to the contrary. Climate change which causes irregular rainfall,...
View ArticleThe ‘Magic’ Papaya That Survived The 2018 Kerala Floods
Do you see those ripe mangoes on the top branch?”, asked Ashokan* pointing at the native mango tree in his backyard. “Last week, I spent all my afternoon plucking them only to find out that I’d been...
View ArticleAs Climate Change Intensifies, It Could Create Barriers For Children’s Education
Education allows the means for people to acquire knowledge and pursue career pathways, giving them a chance for higher social mobility. Although access to education is a basic human right, there have...
View ArticleHow Can India Scale-up Green Finance?
In 2018, the International Finance Corporation, (a private-sector arm of the World Bank), and Amundi, (a leading asset manager from France), launched the world’s largest green bond fund focused on...
View ArticleClimate Change Has Been Cruel To Livelihoods Dependent On ‘Culture’
Climate change is affecting our lives in every possible way. We are experiencing extreme weather events, degraded air, and water quality, changes in disease patterns, agrarian distress, livelihood...
View ArticleBareilly’s Own Padman Awarded The Karamveer Chakra For His ‘PadBank’ Initiative
Credit: Chitransh Saxena. Padbank founder Chitransh Saxena was awarded the Karmaveer Chakra Award on October 12, 2019, at IIT Delhi, for his continued efforts to spread awareness about periods among...
View ArticleFor Most Women In India The Water Crisis Will Be Personal
Water, water everywhere, /Nor any drop to drink.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner). The water crisis is real and all set to explode in the course of a few years. According to...
View Articleक्या महिलाओं को सच में मेंस्ट्रुअल लीव की ज़रूरत है?
पिछले एक-दो दशकों में भारत के कई क्षेत्रों में अभूतपूर्व क्रांतिकारी विकास सहित सकारात्मक परिवर्तन हुए हैं। उम्मीद है कि आने वाले समय में विकास और परिवर्तनों की इस सूची में इज़ाफा होगा। हालांकि अभी भी...
View ArticleAarey: Is The Destruction Of This Forest The Beginning Of The End?
8220;Nature doesn’t recognise good or bad, it only recognises balance and imbalance.” It is obvious that the crisis we face today is well recognised as a man-made crisis in the sense that is the...
View ArticleClimate Change Will Spare Nothing, Definitely Not Our Jobs
Climate change is real. What we might or not have realised yet is that climate change would affect more than just our environment and temperatures. Our global economy and a large number of jobs across...
View ArticleIs India Ready To Tackle The Impact Of Climate Change On Its Farmers?
As the world awaits the drastic consequences of climate change, there is a section of society upon which the changes have come down as a double-edged sword. With ever-rising temperatures and...
View Articleपलामू में झाड़ी काटने पर जेल गए थे खरिदन, अब 3.5 लाख पेड़ कटने के आदेश
अपने घर के पास साग-सब्ज़ी उगाने हेतु बारी बनाने के लिए पलामू टाइगर रिज़र्व क्षेत्र में स्थित पुटूस की झाड़ी काटने के कारण परहिया आदिवासी समुदाय के अगुआ खरिदन परहिया को 55 दिनों तक जेल में रहना पड़ा। वन...
View ArticleDo ‘Green crackers’ Really Live Up To Claims Of Being Eco-Friendly?
For representation only. I remember how, since childhood, I have always been fond of celebrating festivals because for me it presents a break from the daily routine and offers time for social...
View ArticleCrops Are Dying And We Are Next
It’s October in India, and the summers have refused to leave. The weather seems bent on cooking us alive, and the humidity appears endless. Sitting in our AC offices, we might assume that we don’t need...
View Articleहम महिलाओं को मेंस्ट्रुअल लीव के मिसयूज़ के प्रति भी ज़रूरी है सचेत होना
हमारे देश में मेंस्ट्रुअल लीव पॉलिसी पर चर्चा एक स्वागत योग्य कदम है। हालांकि कई लोग इस मामले में आपत्ति जताते हुए यह दलील देते हैं कि मेंस्ट्रूुअल लीव पॉलिसी भारतीय संविधान की धारा 15 (1) द्वारा प्रदत...
View ArticleWhy Isn’t Environmental Education Compulsory At The School And College Level?
We have all heard that the global temperature is rising, and the ozone layer is depleting, which has led to serious environmental problems. We have all seen and felt it too, in the form of climate...
View Article“मैं बिहार में नर्स हूं और हम भी मेंस्ट्रुअल कप पर खुलकर चर्चा नहीं कर पाते हैं”
जब स्वास्थ्य और खासकर स्वास्थ्य से जुड़ी जागरूकता की बात आती है, तो मेडिकल लाइन के लोगों से उम्मीद की जाती है कि वे इस बारे में सबसे ज़्यादा जागरूक होंगे। वजह साफ है उनका इस जागरूकता से सीधे ताल्लुक...
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