Tag: ENVIRONMENT
The last two northern white rhino females
Though the northern white rhino is functionally extinct – following the loss of Sudan, the last known living male, five years ago this week – conservationists are finding hope in a technique that is creating new embryos using genetic material taken from him and two remaining females.
Why Environmental Movements Need to Establish Link with Peace Movements
The big challenge for environment movements today is to grow, expand, broaden its links with justice and peace movements
We found long-banned pollutants in the very deepest part of the ocean
Long banned pollutants are reported to have been found in the deepest part of oceans, it is high time we took matters into our hands and did somethings concrete to save our waterbodies.
Habitat preservation in the Western Ghats can help enhance biodiversity in the hotspot
Biodiversity enriches ecosystem services providing reasons to develop better policy and management strategies for habitat preservation.
How War, Weapons and Sabotage Are Becoming the Biggest Source of Environmental Ruin
If the biggest single source of world-level ecological ruin is to be identified, this is most likely to be related to wars, preparations for wars, conflicts, weapons and sabotage.
Book Review/ In The Living Mountain, Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the...
This is an intense look at the book 'The Living Mountain' by Amitav Ghosh. It presents the arguments,narratives of the book while exhaustively putting forward a review that is sure to retain your keen attention.
Judiciary Provides Speedy Justice to People Displaced by Himachal’s Renukajee Dam
While dams promise greater access to facilities like electricity, they can have damaging effects on people who live close to the project. The article discusses the issue in the case of a popular dam in Himachal Pradesh
Stop ‘Labelling’ and Start ‘Believing’: Towards the Academic, Social and Psychological Development of Learners
Students perform well, not when they are discouraged and labelled but when they get a warm, loving and supporting environment from teachers.
Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space
The Warli tribe, an indigenous community that lives in northwest Maharashtra, believes that the cat-god Waghoba will protect them from the negative impacts of sharing spaces with leopards.
The Need for a Shared Program for Justice to Check Climate Change
Climate change is one of the greatest problems today, here is a look at a shared program for engaged effort to tackle climate change.