'Without Himalayas, there won't be Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra'

'The Himalayas are the Creator of Life.' IMAGE: A view of a house which was severely damaged due to land subsidence in Joshimath. Photograph: Ayush Sharma/ANI Photo A framed photograph of the......

Lessons For The World From 2023

One looks upon the coming new year with foreboding as current wars in Ukraine and Gaza spill over and escalate and new ones erupt in incipient fault lines across the world, notes former foreign......

Decades of warnings preceded Sikkim disaster

Several occasions in the last two decades have seen government agencies and research studies warning about potential glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) in Sikkim, which can cause massive damage......

Dropping Darwinian evolution may lead to superstitious beliefs, warn experts

Experts have voiced their concern that the decision to remove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from 10th-grade textbooks may help propagate superstitious beliefs and irrational practices among......

India's Green Shoots for the Planet

Modi's unexpected announcement of achieving net zero by 2070 may have neatly deflected the pressures on India to sign up to an ambitious pledge but it does nothing to dispel the ecological......

Urine-processing technologies yield rich cash flow

The stink is out of urine, literally and metaphorically, with a growing number of researchers spotting commercial and ecological value in a liquid most people consider waste. The Indian Institute......

Queen Beatrix arrives on state visit tomorrow

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands will begin a four-day state visit to Indiaon Wednesday during which the two sides are expected to explore ways to strengthen bilateral ties, particularly in trade......

How FM plans to tackle air pollution and save environment

The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and......