Changing eating habits holds the potential to undo damage from unsustainable food production Picture Credit: KALLIOPÉ ANVAR MCCALL/THE VARSITY Food production systems on earth are struggling to feed its 7.7 billion inhabitants. This is likely to continue: the United Nations projects food production would have to increase by 70 per cent, compared to 2009, in …
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Picture Credit: Jeremiah Thoronka Jeremiah Thoronka, a 21-year-old Sierra Leonean student, who invented a device that uses kinetic energy from traffic and pedestrians to generate clean power, has won the 2021 Chegg.org Global Student Prize. The prize is worth $100,000. This year also saw US teacher Keishia Thorpe named as the winner of the 2021 …
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Humans do not capitalize nearly enough on our most significant evolutionary advantage: a unique ability to take forward-looking actions that influence the future for the better. Exhibit A: Climate change is here, and things are changing quickly for the worse. However, even as dangerous and costly weather events grow more frequent and severe, we still don’t do …
With her net valuation soaring to $6.5 billion, as reported by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Nayar hogged the position of the wealthiest female self-made billionaire in India New Delhi: Following Nykaa’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), Falguni Nayar, the founder of the beauty e-commerce brand, became India’s seventh woman billionaire. With her net valuation soaring to $6.5 …
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Since June, hundreds of people have died in a heat wave that broke Canadian heat records. Picture Credit: A doctor in Canada’s British Columbia province has diagnosed a patient who came in with breathing trouble as suffering from “climate change”, possibly the first such case recorded till date. (Representational image) A doctor in Canada’s British Columbia …
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