Saturday, May 11, 2024

Tag: ENVIRONMENT

The last two northern white rhino females

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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.
Environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna with activists at Tehri/Wikimedia Commons

Why Environmental Movements Need to Establish Link with Peace Movements

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The big challenge for environment movements today is to grow, expand, broaden its links with justice and peace movements
Planet earth painted on two hands. Image source - Twitter

We found long-banned pollutants in the very deepest part of the ocean

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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.
There is an urgent need to preserve the habitat in western ghats/image for representational purposes only

Habitat preservation in the Western Ghats can help enhance biodiversity in the hotspot

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Biodiversity enriches ecosystem services providing reasons to develop better policy and management strategies for habitat preservation.
The devastating impact of war is such that it destroys both human beings as well as the ecosystem.

How War, Weapons and Sabotage Are Becoming the Biggest Source of Environmental Ruin

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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 COVER/ THE LIVING MOUNTAIN BY AMITAV GHOSH

Book Review/ In The Living Mountain, Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the...

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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.
Photo depicting a dam. Source: Pixabay/ For representational purposes only

Judiciary Provides Speedy Justice to People Displaced by Himachal’s Renukajee Dam

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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
Child friendly learning environments are necessary rather than bringing up children in an ecosystem that labels and tags them early on.

Stop ‘Labelling’ and Start ‘Believing’: Towards the Academic, Social and Psychological Development of Learners

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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

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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

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Climate change is one of the greatest problems today, here is a look at a shared program for engaged effort to tackle climate change.

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