Society

Badruddin Sarkar stands atop a five-metre-high embankment and points to the tree stump, where his home used to be before it was swallowed by the Bay of Bengal. Credit: Joydeep Gupta/Third Pole

What Will Keep the Sea at Bay?

Joydeep Gupta 30/05/2016

As sea levels rise due to climate change, planners...

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UNESCO Report Overlooks Vulnerable World Heritage Sites

Rob Souter 29/05/2016

The report warns of risks from climate change and...

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A Computer Scientist Who Keeps Our Satellites in Check

Nandita Jayaraj 28/05/2016

Kriti Faujdar finds ISRO a supportive place to work...

A scene from the 'origin of life' sequence in the 2011 film Tree of Life. Source: YouTube

Of All That Science Can See, What it Can’t Blinds Us to the Rest

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 25/05/2016

We have hit a roadblock when it comes to...

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An Economist Who Helps Women Help Themselves

Aashima Dogra 25/05/2016

Despite the creation of self-help groups and microfinance schemes,...

Bread and butter. Credit: praveenpn4u/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

When Chernobyl’s Radioactive Residues Were Thought to Be in Mumbai’s Butter

K.S. Parthasarathy 24/05/2016

A former secretary of the AERB recalls how safe...

The PSLV takes off on its 24th mission in April 2014 to launch the IRNSS 1B satellite. Source: ISRO

Why Haven’t ISRO and the US Signed Their Commercial Space Launch Agreement Yet?

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2016

ISRO will have to take a call about whether...