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Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Gender

UN Official Says Women Paid 24 Percent Less Than Men Globally, 30 Percent Less In Asia

A U.N. agency is mounting a worldwide campaign for equal pay for women, who get 24 percent less than men on global average and around 30 percent less for those in Asia. Rec...

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Health

Breaking The Cycle Of Malnutrition: Healthy Mothers Produce Healthy Babies

Every baby in the womb eats what its mother does, or more accurately derives its essential nutrients from her. Thus, even mild maternal malnutrition can impair fetal develo...

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Sustainable Development

American Astronauts Will Fly to Space in Boeing's 'Starliner'

Boeing, with its CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX, with its Dragon, are vying to become the first American companies to ever fly NASA astronauts into space. At this point it&rs...

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Sustainable Development

For Teens In Crisis, The Next Text Could Be A Lifesaver

The message to the Crisis Text Line was answered by Aaron Amrich, a volunteer crisis counselor based in California. It was sent by a 19-year-old woman who wrote that she wa...

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Sustainable Development

Govt to Ask Flipkart, Amazon & Snapdeal To Sell Solar/Wind Powered Products

The government of late seems to be betting big on renewable sources of power. Just a few months back, Government approved Masayoshi Son’s Softbank to partner with Tai...

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Bollywood

Akshay, Hrithik, AR Rahman join global campaign on UN SDGs

Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan and Oscar-winning composer A. R. Rahman have joined an ambitious global campaign that aims to spread awareness about the Sus...

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Sustainable Development

Intel Promises $50 Million for Quantum Computing Research

On Friday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich published an open letter pledging to invest $50 million in long-term quantum computing research. Keywords here are long-term: While 2022...

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Health

The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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