Year: 2018

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COP24 Summit Shows Global Warming Treaties Can Survive Anti-Climate ‘Strongmen’

Raphael Heffron 17/12/2018

US President Donald Trump and Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro...

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Cyclone Phethai To Hit Andhra Pradesh by Afternoon; 9 Districts on High Alert

The Wire Staff 17/12/2018

The Indian Meteorological Department said though it weakened slightly,...

#MeToo, Bayesian cascade, feminism, gender bias, gendered knowledge, information cascade, Internal Complaints Committee, patriarchy, recommendation letters, research family balance, stereotypes, women in science, women in STEM, astronomy,

A Sexism Less Noticed: In Academic Recommendation Letters

Aswin Sekhar 17/12/2018

Most of academia is highly competitive and near-misses are...

solar geoengineering, geoengineering, Kyoto Protocol, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, Mount Pinatubo, Indian Institute of Science, CEEW, Environment (Protection) Act 1986, Environmental Impact Assessment, sulphate aerosols, Anthropocene poch, COP24, Katowice, southwest monsoon, northeast monsoon, Department of Science and Technology

Geoengineering: Should India Tread Carefully or Go Full Steam Ahead?

Surat Parvatam 16/12/2018

Solar geoengineering doesn’t help reduce carbon emissions, and is...

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Tribal Women in Chhattisgarh Win Right to Access Contraception

Anoo Bhuyan 15/12/2018

The lack of legal family planning services to tribal...

FILE PHOTO: Police stand guard outside a copper smelter controlled by London-listed Vedanta Resources in Thoothukudi in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, May 28, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Sudarshan Varadhan/File Photo

NGT Sets Aside Tamil Nadu Govt’s Order Shutting Down Vedanta Copper Plant

Sudarshan Varadhan 15/12/2018

The decision came months after it was ordered shut...

fossil fuels, renewable energy, energy mix, greenhouse gas emissions, COP24, Katowice, Poland, consumerism, climate change, grid power, 1992 Rio convention, Simon Pirani, China, electrification,

Moving Away From Fossil Fuels Isn’t Separate From Moving Towards Social Justice

Nagraj Adve 15/12/2018

Society is divided by class, and this is reflected...