Geoengineering is an insane way to deal with climate change. Let’s consider it anyway.

Geoengineering — the idea of deliberately fiddling with the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming — has long been seen as an insane, preposterous, mad-...

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

​​INDIA TAKES ON THE WORLD RECORD

IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL MISSION ‘BETI BACHAO, BETI PADHAO’

The Indian Open Water swim team “The Se...

Michelle Obama And Former First Ladies Support Healing Garden At Children’s National Health System

First Lady Michelle Obama and all five living former First Ladies have announced their support for a project to transform a gravel rooftop space at Children’s Nationa...

Will Companies Solve Climate Change Before Countries?

I just spent a week at the 15th Annual Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in India, a four-day eco-extravaganza for hundreds of participants from government, business, ac...

Child, Bride, Mother

In Guatemala, the legal age of marriage is 14 with parental consent, but in Petén, in the northern part of the country, the law seems to be more of a suggestion. Und...

‘Writers must not have any kind of judgementalism’

Gautam Benegal is an incredibly talented writer, cartoonist and artist, who grew up in Kolkata. In the past, he’s contributed articles and illustrations for several p...

The U.S. Military Worries About Climate Change, So Why Don't Republicans?

On Friday, the Obama administration put climate change on the par with other global challenges like cybersecurity, terrorism, and Russian aggression, warning in a 35-page n...

TN aims to bring down maternal mortality rate, says TNHSP Director

The Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project (TNHSP) is working towards reducing Tamil Nadu’s maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 45 per one lakh live births by 2017 from the c...