Pregnancy Weight Gain Predicts Child’s Obesity

Gaining too much weight during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk that your child will be obese as a preschooler, new evidence shows. Gaining too little weight ...

Climate Change Clouds Farmers

Indian farmers are keeping fingers crossed. Will the monsoon this kharif (south-west monsoon season) be normal, above normal (like last year), or sub-normal? One has receiv...

Fish losing survival instinct in acidic oceans

Fish are losing their survival instinct — even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators — as the world’s oceans become more acidic because of cl...

ACEE The Third Eye Presents Supernova, A Panel Discussion on Portrayal of Health, Young Mothers and Parenting in the World of Films, Television and Media

ACEE The Third Eye is empowering the creative leadership of the media and entertainment industries of India with accurate information on key health, legal,...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

A case for normalising Indo-Pak trade

A new study by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in 2013 estimates that the value of informal flow of trade from India to Pakistan is $ 4.2 billion annually At a...

Global warming and our health

Global warming isn’t just bad for the environment. There are several ways that it is expected to take a toll on human health. For starters, the extreme summer heat th...

British Floods, California Drought: A Connection?

This winter, weather reports have been full of extremes. California, for instance, has had the driest year in 119 years of recordkeeping, with the Sierra snowpack less than...

Climate Change This Week: Magma Mania, Dirty Fuel Dealer, and More!

How unusual has the weather been? No one event is “caused” by climate change, but global warming, which is predicted to increase unusual, extreme weather, is ha...