Oil Drilling Caused Killer Earthquake In Boomtime California, Scientists Suspect

Several damaging Los Angeles-area earthquakes of the 1920s and 1930s, including the deadliest ever in southern California, may have been brought on by oil production during...

Haryana Girl Takes A Brave Stand Against Air Pollution, Reports Her Father For Stubble Burning

It takes courage to stand up against the wrong, and it takes even more courage if the wrongdoer is someone extremely close to you. Like your own father! A 16-year-old Harya...

How To Find A Resilient Solution To Extreme Poverty

In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the numb...

Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny...

Female Cartoonist Who Was Jailed For Depicting Government Ministers As Goats Is Finally Free

“I would rather go to jail than succumb to the regime”: these are the defiant words of Iranian satirical cartoonist Atena Farghadani, who is just the latest in ...

Only A Few Recharge The Ground Beneath Their Feet

Till 2006, Sea-Line Co-operative Housing Society, Khar, faced extreme water shortage a dry bore-well, water cuts and soaring water bills. Ten years later, when most of Mumb...

Plastic Waste Dumped In UK Seas 'Carried To Arctic Within Two Years

Marine plastic pollution is a huge problem, with 5tn pieces of plastic now floating in the world’s oceans. The plastic is frequently mistaken for food by fish and bir...

Sonakshi Sinha: Schools, Colleges Should Teach Self Defence To Girls

The 'Dabangg' star says self defence mechanism should be taught to girls from a very young age as it is extremely important in today's times. "Schools, colleges, should inc...

“An artclass on the footpath…”

Interns Pranoy Shaiva and Shreyas Nair contributed both words and photographs for this writeup.

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