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Environment

Here's Why Brushing Your Teeth Is Bad For The Oceans.

The tiny exfoliating "microbeads" that millions of people slather onto their faces every morning are having a dire effect on the marine ecosystems, according to a new resea...

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Health

India Has Highest Number Of Smokeless Tobacco Deaths, Finds New Study

India accounts for nearly three- fourths of over a quarter million deaths worldwide caused by smokeless tobacco while millions more have their lives shortened due to its il...

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Trending

India Reveals World’s First 100 Percent Solar-Powered Airport

Tesla’s Elon Musk has long propagated the idea that solar is the power source of the future, and tech giants like Apple and Amazon have recently been pushing to reduc...

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Health

Pregnant Women World-Wide Need Timely Access to Supplements

Over 32 million pregnant women around the world have anemia every year, a condition that limits the blood’s capacity to transport oxygen to the body’s cells. Th...

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Hollywood

World Humanitarian Day 2015: George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Emma Watson, Other Celebs Who Support Human Rights Causes

To quote writer J.K. Rowling, “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
Living in the 21st century entails accepting a wo...

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Health

Zen And The Art Of Dying Well

What is the ??ight??way to die? We??e experiencing a zeitgeist moment about that. ??eing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,??by Atul Gawande, is a best-selling b...

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Health

How Real-Time Data Can Help Fight Cancer

In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemo...

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Health

How To Cure Blindness Around The World..

As part of a blog series on Social Entrepreneurs, Thulsi Ravilla, Executive Director of Aravind Eye Care System, talks about democratizing healthcare and eliminating blindn...

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Sustainable Development

Paging Dr. Watson: IBM Supercomputer Gains Access To 30 Billion Medical Images

IBM’s Watson supercomputer (and “Jeopardy!” winner) will be processing a lot of broken limbs and tumors in its ultimate quest for sentience. The company a...

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Environment

Environment Panel Refuses Expansion Of Coal Mine In Chhattisgarh

An environment ministry committee has declined the expansion of a major mine run by a Coal India subsidiary in Chhattisgarh citing ?serious? violation of environmental laws...

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