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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 ...

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Environment

Global warming could dry out a third of the Earth by 2100

Forget changing rain patterns — warmer temperatures alone could bring drought to a third of Earth’s land area by the end of the century. That’s the gist o...

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Environment

Climate change, air quality and health

The third National Climate Assessment report, due to be released this month, confirms both the role of human activities in causing climate change and the broad range of adv...

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Environment

Climate Change Threatens India’s Food Security

High levels of warming resulting from continued growth in greenhouse gas emissions may have an adverse impact on India’s food security especially on rice and maize pr...

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Environment

Climate change could ‘lead’ to extinction of humans: Expert

Climate change has emerged as one of the biggest threats that our world is facing right now. Scientists and experts around the world have expressed grave concerns about the...

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Environment

Global warming threat rises for India, says latest UN report

India’s high vulnerability and exposure to climate change and global warming will slow its economic growth, impact health and development, make poverty reduction more...

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Environment

Working with India to accelerate clean energy revolution: US

The US is working closely with India to accelerate its clean energy revolution and address the impacts of climate change, the White House said on Friday. “We are work...

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Environment

Big climate report: Warming is big risk for people

If you think of climate change as a hazard for some far-off polar bears years from now, you’re mistaken. That’s the message from top climate scientists gatherin...

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Environment

Mumbai faces biggest threats from climate change of all cities in world

India is among the ‘extreme risk’ countries where economic impacts of climate change will be most felt by 2025, according to a report. In its sixth annual Clima...

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Environment

Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warmin...

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