2016 College Women Of The Year: Suhani Jalota

In India, where I grew up, menstruation is considered impure, and even saying the word period is taboo. It's hard to imagine. I wanted to chip away at that stigma, but how ...

Dharavi Girls Develop Apps For Education, Recycling & Women's Safety

In Dharavi, it’s the teenage girls who are driving change through science and technology, by developing apps to keep women safe, to get water, and for education. It a...

The Recycling Reflex

What if there were something that could create 1.5 million new jobs, reduce carbon emissions equal to taking 50 million cars off the road, cut dependence on foreign oil, in...

Onus On Manufacturers, Retailers To 'Scientifically' Recycle E-Waste

He Environment Ministry has tightened rules by putting the onus on manufacturers, dealers, retailers and refurbishers of electronic goods to ensure that electronic or e-was...

Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Make Trash Disappear

A durable plastic called PET is considered a major environmental hazard because it's highly resistant to breakdown. But researchers have found a potential new match for thi...

The Amount Of Plastic In The Ocean Could Outweigh Fish By 2050

Entitled "The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics," the report containsplenty of sickening statistics about the amount of plastic polluting the ocean, l...

5 Mobile Apps That Help You Go Green!

Going green isn?t always the easiest thing to do ? especially for those of us living in huge, urban cities. Luckily, eco-consciousness is intersecting with technology in wh...

The Challenge Of Climate Change: An Indian Perspective

Few countries in the world are as vulnerable to the effects of climate change as India is with its vast population that is dependent on the growth of its agrarian economy, ...

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...