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Nidhi Singh. Credit: Aashima Dogra

Plotting Climate Change and Diarrhoea in Varanasi

Aashima Dogra 22/11/2016

Nidhi Singh, a researcher at Banaras Hindu University, wants...

Khuroshvili Ilya. Credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

What Will the World Actually Look Like at 1.5°C of Warming?

Richard Betts 22/11/2016

By the time we hit that temperature, further climate...

Public toilets in Varanasi. Credit: Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

Shyama V. Ramani 20/11/2016

According to the Indian census of 2011, only 46.9%...

Worker fumigates along a street in Yangon, Myanmar November 18, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

Myanmar Struggles to Prepare For Possible Zika Outbreak

Shwe Yee Saw Myint 20/11/2016

The Ministry of Health's Than Htun Aung said measures...

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With the Sagar-Mitra Abhiyaan, Children Grapple With the Plastic Problem

Scharada Dubey 19/11/2016

Under the programme, schoolchildren in Pune have been collecting...

Listen: The Drug-Resistant Superbug That May Have Taken a Flight from India to Paris

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 16/11/2016

Multi-drug resistant bacteria are growing more powerful each day...

The Environmental Biotechnologist Who Is the Only Woman Director at BHU

Aashima Dogra 16/11/2016

Kavita Shah, an environmental biotechnologist at the Institute of...