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Environment

United Nations Asks For Help For Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia

This year's El Ni?o weather system has hit hard in East Africa, causing the severe drought in Ethiopia and flooding in Somalia. The current drought comes more than two deca...

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Drones Set To Give Global Farming A Makeover

The traditional image of a farmer standing in a field, squinting anxiously at the sky for signs of rain, may be about to get a 21st-century makeover as researchers explore ...

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Environment

The World Has A Doomsday Seed Vault In The Arctic, And It Just Saw A Withdrawal

But the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is anything but fiction. And if its Norse god-like name didn't already imbue it with a sense of importance, its purpose will - it's meant...

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Top 5

A Natural Balance

We aspire for a better world but are often absorbed with our own lives to take decisive measures. That is, until a film galvanises us into taking action. Our top five secti...

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Thought Factory

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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Thought Factory

An Elite Cafeteria Or A Canteen For Everyone?

June 30, 2015, 9.15 pm

I heaved a sigh of relief as I put down my purse, lunchbox, umbrella and some vegetables I ...

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CNN-IBN Presents Smart Agriculture

~ Bringing voices from the field into the homes of urban audiences ~

New Delhi, 22 July 2015: The agricultural...

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TOI Journalist Wins Award For Agriculture Crisis Reporting

Priyanka Kakodkar, Editor (Special Projects) of The Times of India, has won the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in environmental and development reporting for her series o...

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Sustainable Development

UN Hails Cooperatives As Vehicle To Make Sustainable Development A Reality For All.

“Inequality is a fundamental obstacle to development, depriving people of basic services and opportunities to build better lives for themselves and their children,&rd...

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Health

WHO: Insecticides Lindane, DDT Linked To Cancer

IARC said high exposures to lindane have previously been reported among agricultural workers and pesticide applicators. The insecticide lindane, once widely used in agricul...

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