Year: 2018

Apart from uranium, the wells tested in Gujarat and Rajasthan also contained significant amounts of fluorides and nitrates. Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave

Groundwater in Northwest India Has a Uranium Contamination Problem

Lakshmi Supriya 25/06/2018

Unlike the limits for arsenic and other toxic metals...

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AIIB Summit: Will the Bank Be More Hands-On with Funding Environmental Projects?

Visvak 25/06/2018

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which meets in Mumbai...

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Amid Smoldering E-Waste in the West Bank, Activists Fight for Reform

Shira Rubin 25/06/2018

Burning electronic waste to extract metals for resale is...

The Indian government seems to be rolling out bedaquiline in a phased manner and somewhat along the lines of the US FDA Expanded Access. Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0

Expanded Access and the Bedaquiline Debate: A Practitioner’s View

Jay Desai 25/06/2018

The Indian government and DCGI already have a programme...

Men and women working with plants in a lab. Credit: felixioncool/pixabay

Listen: Towards a Better Future for the World, a Better Future for Women

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 25/06/2018

Ramesh Laungani is the driving force behind the ‘1000...

The Tehri dam in Uttarakhand. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Five Years After Uttarakhand Floods: Five Years of Disregard for the Himalaya

C.P. Rajendran 24/06/2018

The Uttarakhand floods reflected the damage we had dealt...

People wade through flooded streets in Srinagar, Kashmir, 2014. Credit: Reuters

How Will India Respond to Internal Climate Migration?

Chetan Choithani 24/06/2018

The need to prepare for climate migration is perhaps...