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Solar dryers hold potential to cut food loss

22 Oct 2019

Last week, the UN Environment highlighted the story of Varun Raheja, a mechanical engineer from India, who was always fascinated by farming. As he loves nature, he considered farming, and...

India’s bold initiative to fight disasters

15 Oct 2019

India is building a coalition for disaster-resilient infrastructure. Announcing this at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 held in New York City, Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi invited other nations...

Extreme weather patterns wreak havoc in India

08 Oct 2019

From the third driest June in 54 years to the rainiest September in 102 years, the monsoon season in India has wreaked havoc across the country. Though last week was...

Waste tyre imports a bad proposition for India

01 Oct 2019

India produces over six percent of the global waste tyres every year. Every day India discards about 275,000 tyres but there is currently no comprehensive plan to deal with them....

No Planet B, and the dangers loom large for India

24 Sep 2019

Last week, joining Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg’s call for mass protests to sound the alarm on climate change, youth across India staged several protests. Their slogans highlighted...

Spate in lightning deaths tell a shocking story

17 Sep 2019

Even as India grapples with floods and erratic climate change related issues, another killer has claimed nearly 1311 people in just four months from April to July. In this period,...

India struggles to combat desertification

11 Sep 2019

India is hosting the largest gathering to address growing land degradation and desertification. The fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the United Nations Convention to Combat...

Positive steps amidst greater challenges

03 Sep 2019

A nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on October 2, the release of funds to 27 states for afforestation, the Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) that was launched...

Indian cities are becoming urban heat islands

27 Aug 2019

As rivers surge and floods overpower, as forests burn and glaciers melt, and as wild animals enter human habitats, there is still no urgency among us as humans to find...

Single-use plastic menace threatens to choke India

20 Aug 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech urged people to stop using single-use plastic bags so that India could start phasing them out from October 2, the birthday...

Meena Janardhan

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

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