With Siberia seeing its warmest temperature on record this year and enormous chunks of ice caps in Greenland and Canada sliding into the sea, countries are acutely aware there’s no vaccine for global warming. In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: …
If coronavirus doesn’t kill us, climate change will: Leaders to UN Read More »
The importance of conducting quick tests for infectious diseases has come to light like never before with the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus. Building on the same, a research team led by an Indian-American has now come up with a quick and non-invasive way that uses a mobile phone to detect infectious diseases. The Cornell researchers’ team, …
Saurabh Mehta’s Team Won Rs 73 Lakh For Inventing Phone-Based Saliva Test Read More »
Tropical plants have driven exploration, started wars, transformed economies. Hear the stories in episode 2 of the new Scrolls & Leaves podcast. Faced with COVID-19, for which there are no specific treatments, people have scrambled to find herbal remedies to protect themselves. Plant-based medicine companies have spotted the opportunity. In June, Baba Ramdev, yoga guru …
Podcast | How Have Medicinal Plants Changed Our World? Read More »
Schwab Foundation named 5 Indians in its list of 2020 social innovators award. Among them is Ashif Shaikh, the founder-director of Jan Sahas. New Delhi: Five Indians have been selected by the Schwab Foundation, a sister organisation of the World Economic Forum, for the ‘social innovators 2020’ awards for being among the first responders to the Covid-19 crisis. These five …
Indian NGO founder who helped migrants in lockdown on Schwab list of social innovators Read More »
The world is experiencing a pandemic of unprecedented proportions and any assessment on biodiversity, climate change or environment is unlikely to hit the headlines. However, a recent report ‘Living Planet-2020’ by over 125 global experts from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) did receive some attention. The headline was a 68% fall in populations of monitored vertebrate …
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