Month: December 2019

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Explainer: Why Did the Chandrayaan 2 Lander Take so Long to Find?

Jatan Mehta 14/12/2019

After the events of September 7, ISRO switched its...

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Watch | She is Protecting Wildlife in Bandipur, One Animal at a Time

Ozy and The Wire 14/12/2019

The story of Sunita Dhairyam, who has dedicated her...

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Watch: Eight-Year-Old Activist Asks Modi to Pass a Climate Change Law at COP25

The Wire Staff 14/12/2019

Licypriya Kangujam, one of the youngest climate activists in...

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In Protecting the Kashmir Valley, Wular Lake Has Become Harder to Save

Rashme Sehgal 14/12/2019

Wular is the only lake in India to be...

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Universities Shouldn’t Just Treat Mental Illness – They Should Help Prevent it Too

Anna Lewis 14/12/2019

At a 2015 conference in Canada, people from 45...

A doctor checks for tuberculosis at a health camp. Credit: cdcglobal/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

WHO Hopes New TB Regimen Will Be Shorter and Cut out Painful Injectable Drugs

Anoo Bhuyan 13/12/2019

The organisation recommended pretomanid, a new TB drug, but...

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India’s Rivers Are Contaminated By Heavy Metals, Study Finds

The Wire Staff 13/12/2019

While some amount of metals in drinking water is...