Dwindling Snowpack Around The World Threatens The Water Supply For 2 Billion People

Scientists from Stanford University and Columbia University's Earth Institute?said?that if greenhouse gas emissions continue along their current trajectory, about 97 snow-d...

Gender Parity To Boost India's Economic Growth: IMF

As per a recent IMF study, India’s GDP can expand by 27 percent if the number of women workers increases to the same level as that of men. This is much higher than th...

MANNA DEY

It was in late 1996 that I started the Bimal Roy Memorial with a view to honour my father, whose films continued to thrill audiences, and still do. Very few individuals fro...

Curtain Raiser

“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood”
- Pablo Neruda

A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write...

Cities Are Overheating, And Cooling Them Off Will Be Risky

Taha is the president of Altrostratus, which developed California’s recently-published urban heat island index map. The map shows the areas most impacted by the urban...

If This Part Of Antarctica Collapses, Sea Levels Could Rise 10 Feet

The scientists specifically looked at a region of Antarctica called the Amundsen Sea sector, and projected what the consequences would be if the ice there broke apart and d...

Opinion: Integrating Water, Sanitation And Health Are Key To The Promise Of The UN Global Goals

AMMAN, Oct 30 2015 (IPS) – The 193 member states of the United Nations have adopted an ambitious 15-year sustainable development agenda, the 2030 Global Goals To unde...

Opinion: Integrating Water, Sanitation And Health Are Key To The Promise Of The UN Global Goals

AMMAN, Oct 30 2015 (IPS) – The 193 member states of the United Nations have adopted an ambitious 15-year sustainable development agenda, the 2030 Global Goals To unde...

Child Marriage: A Devastating Effect Of The Refugee Crisis

The global refugee crisis triggered by the Syrian war and other conflicts poses a major challenge for governments around the world. Behind the scenes, though, it is exacerb...