Families and communities are breaking up, losing their homes and sources of livelihoods, often from single instances of droughts, flash-floods and forest fires. These negative impacts of unpredictable and extreme climatic conditions are now recurrent, more frequent and intense in many parts of the world. Today, over a million species are on the verge of […]
Winter arrives hand-in-hand with air pollution in India and this winter is no exception. There are clamouring voices, particularly in the National Capital Region to take imminent measures to reduce and tackle air pollution. Few desperate measures such as penalising old vehicles, regulating unlawful construction measures and increased awareness and vigilance on stubble burning were […]
Having an opportunity in hand to do an internship in Delhi, I was excited naturally. The prospect of India Gate, Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, buzzing markets of Connaught Place and Janpath, the famous Delhi metro ferrying millions, all appealed me and kept me excited. Probably any habitual newspaper reader would know the ugly face of […]
Succeeding her first space flight, in 1997, the Haryana born wonder woman, Kalpana Chawla said, “The Ganges valley looked majestic, mind-boggling” when she viewed from the outer space. Imaginatively, had she been alive today, on a space mission, she would have seen burning fires, just the way the NASA’s Visible Earth site shows us. The […]
You might have known that air pollution will be severe in winter, How severe will it be ? And why it is so ? What is Smog ? SMOG – The science behind it Smog is a solid-liquid colloidal particle consisting of smoke and fog. This prevents the smoke from dispersing and making it to […]