Year: 2018

air pollution, Centre for science and environment, Delhi air pollution, diesel cars, diesel generators, Diwali, Diwali firecrackers, Diwali green crackers, Environment (Protection) Act 1986, Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, EPCA, National Green Tribunal, per coke, Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers, Sunita Narain

EPCA Was Specially Empowered to Deal With Air Pollution Crises. Is It Working?

Ritwick Dutta 08/11/2018

Despite being vested with enormous powers, the Environment Pollution...

Avni tigress, T1 tigress, Maneka Gandhi, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Standard Operating Procedures, private hunters, tranquilisation, man-eater, human-animal conflict, human-wildlife conflict, wildlife warden, tiger ecology, Yavatmal

To Save Tigers in the Wild, Losing a Few Individual Animals Can’t Be Avoided

Praveen Bhargav 07/11/2018

Well-meaning but ill-informed and emotion-driven urban activists – divorced...

Rhinos with their calves standing on an elevated land in the flooded Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Credit: PTI

China Revokes Ban on Trading Products Made From Tigers, Rhinos – What Next?

Neha Simlai 07/11/2018

India itself is home to about 60% of tigers...

Kashmir’s Fruit Orchards Have Been Ravaged by Unseasonal Autumn Snowfall

Kashmir’s Fruit Orchards Have Been Ravaged by Unseasonal Autumn Snowfall

Mudasir Ahmad 07/11/2018

While losses are likely to touch Rs 1,000 crore,...

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In Imposing a Partial Ban on Crackers, SC Has Put Right to Life Over Religious Freedom

Parul Kumar 07/11/2018

With Delhi’s air reaching hazardous levels, one hopes the...

science journalism, Nature News, Tom Sheldon, open access, scientific publishing, science journals, scientific journals, peer review, impact factor, post-publication peer review, science communication, IISc superconductivity,

Debate: Preprints Are Double-Edged and Their Risks Outweigh Their Benefits

Jay Desai 06/11/2018

Preprints are likely to create confusion and distortion, and...

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Chronicling the Killing of T1, the Tigress

Jaideep Hardikar/ PARI 06/11/2018

On November 2, T1, a tigress believed to have...