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Environment

Humans Have Been Causing Environmental Disasters For 7,000 Years

Humans have always had a tendency to view bodies of water as giant dumpsters. You put the gook and trash in and then it magically disappears—or floats someplace else ...

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Gender

How A 105-Year-Old Ended Open Defecation In Her Village

On Tuesday, Dhamtari became the first district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to be declared free from open defecation. And the credit for that is being given ...

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Environment

We Can Save Elephants. But Can We Save Wild Elephants?

I have just returned from Kenya’s North Eastern Province where one night, camped out in a dry riverbed with just a mosquito net for cover, a herd of elephants emerged...

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Environment

Brazil’s Sweet River Still Runs Orange Seven Months After A Massive Mining Spill

The millions of liters of waste — a volume roughly equal to the capacity of the Hoover Dam — that gushed out of the Fundão mining dam on November 5 last ...

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Environment

A River Comes To The People

Nanduwali In East Rajasthan Started Flowing Again When The Villagers Decided To Work With Nature And Not Against It. The River Is Now Lifeline To Those Settled On Her Banks...

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Sustainable Development

7 Great Techniques By Which You Can Easily Harvest Rainwater At Your Home This Monsoon

Did you know that if Bangalore manages to recharge even 30% of the rainwater it gets, it will have more that what the Cauvery River is supplying currently to the city, whil...

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Environment

In Photos: Torrential Downpours In France Force Art Evacuation At Louvre, Submerge Roads

Several departments in France remained on high alert Thursday, as national French meteorological service Météo-France predicted more heavy rain in the coming ...

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Festivals

L.A.'s First-Ever Dog Film Festival Is Coming in June

Following in the paw prints of its New York debut in 2014, the Dog Film Festival, a human-canine bonding experience created by Vermont-based pet wellness advocate and radio...

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Health

Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

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Drinking Water, Sipping Poison?

India’s water quality problem is reaching crisis proportions, and today at least 1.95 crore habitations are affected by poor water quality. Over 3.6 crore people are ...

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