AboutArticles by Meena Janardhan

Air pollution poses a grave health risk in India

29 Dec 2020

Causing 18 per cent of deaths in India and a loss of $36.8 billion in 2019, air pollution is an urgent and pressing obstacle on India’s target to become a...

Why India is vulnerable to biological risks

22 Dec 2020

A recent analysis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace states that India faces a host of biological risk factors. Drawing lessons from the coronavirus pandemic and prior biological disasters,...

India urged to do more on renewable energy

15 Dec 2020

Though ranked high along with the European Union (EU) and the UK in the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) released by the non-profit Germanwatch, India needs...

Resettling costs for biodiversity conservation

08 Dec 2020

A latest report titled ‘Rights Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?’ by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) points out that India needs over US...

India’s ‘fair share’ and its climate targets

24 Nov 2020

India is doing its ‘fair share’ to meet the 2 degree Celsius goal by the end of the century, says the Climate Transparency Report 2020 launched recently. The report...

Low-priced tech needed to fight climate change

17 Nov 2020

India is a signatory to the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. However, environment-friendly technology comes at a cost. If it’s not affordable, it...

India is now choking on medical waste

10 Nov 2020

Fighting the coronavirus has had severe economic fall-outs. But there is another global catastrophe looming large over us – medical waste. In India, latest figures from the Indian Central...

India sets sights on Climate Smart Cities

03 Nov 2020

India recently launched the Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0, along with the ‘Streets for People Challenge’ in a virtual event organised by the Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of...

Rediscovering the benefits of camel milk

27 Oct 2020

The stirring story of how a desperate mother’s tweet led to a train in India making an unscheduled stop during the lockdown to deliver camel milk to her 3.5-year-old autistic...

Indian wetland gets Ramsar recognition

20 Oct 2020

Home to many rare and endangered species, the Asan Conservation Reserve becomes India’s latest and the state of Uttarakhand’s first Ramsar site. With this new addition, the country’s wetlands...

Meena Janardhan

Writer/Editor/Consultant. She has over 25 years of experience in the fields of environmental journalism and publishing.

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