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Very few drops to drink: Water pollution is a bigger environmental threat than climate change
March 7, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Asit K Biswas The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just published its 10th annual Global Risk report. For the first 10 years the premier spot is taken by a non-financial issue, water….
March 7, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Making investment in water & sanitation not just has moral case but economic as well
February 27, 2015, 5:38 AM IST
By Bjorn Lomborg What targets should the world set for water and sanitation? 2.5 billion people – almost half the developing world – lack a basic latrine and 1 billion have to resort to what is…
February 27, 2015, 5:38 AM IST
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Greenpeace vs Government Of India: Foreign Hand in Glove!
February 24, 2015, 5:28 AM IST
The foreign hand was once the bogeyman every Indian loved to blame. Since the 1990s, though, we’ve learnt to love things ‘foreign’, especially when related to money. Acronyms like FDI (foreign direct investment) and FII…
February 24, 2015, 5:28 AM IST
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TOI solutions to NH7 imbroglio
February 17, 2015, 3:16 AM IST
In a couple of days, the high court will give a final decision on the National Highway Authority of India’s (NHAI) plan to dilute mitigation measures drastically and go in for four-laning on the NH7…
February 17, 2015, 3:16 AM IST
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Let us breathe: Urban India’s noxious air quality make an early transition to BS V imperative
February 13, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Clean air is a public good, something that everyone should enjoy. Its availability in urban India will depend in large part on the extent to which the government is willing to raise the bar on…
February 13, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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More investment, faster switch to cleaner fuel essential for curtailing vehicular pollution
February 10, 2015, 3:20 AM IST
India today has the world’s worst polluted city: New Delhi. Many other Indian cities are close competitors. Heightened air pollution hurts health and well-being, curtails lifespan and productivity. Cutting vehicle emissions is an important part…
February 10, 2015, 3:20 AM IST
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Other than Lima summit, domestic climate change legislation is advancing rapidly
December 16, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
The annual UN climate summit of 194 nations, scheduled to conclude Friday in Peru, finally finished in overtime on Sunday. The modest agreement that was reached keeps the process alive. However, while a deal was…
December 16, 2014, 12:08 AM IST
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Green tech is good for business, India must lead the world: Kofi Annan
December 13, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
With the two largest economies and polluters of the world – USA and China – agreeing on key climate targets, and German energy giant E.ON shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable power, the world…
December 13, 2014, 12:03 AM IST
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Bangladesh and India must seek international expertise to clear the massive oil spill off the famed Sunderbans
December 12, 2014, 3:06 PM IST
Both the Bangladesh and Indian governments must put their heads together and seek international assistance to clear the massive oil spill off the coast of the Sunderbans, a unique transboundary mangrove forest and a UNESCO…
December 12, 2014, 3:06 PM IST
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Renewable energy will change the energy landscape as we know it
November 28, 2014, 2:39 AM IST
Close watchers of the global energy landscape would have noticed two stories in The New York Times this week. One was about the falling prices of renewable energy to the point of becoming cheaper than…
November 28, 2014, 2:39 AM IST
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The TSR Subramanian report on the environment makes sense
November 25, 2014, 5:02 AM IST
When it comes to the subject of the environment, the government and industry have been at daggers drawn for more than a decade. Ever since the mid-1980s, when environmental well being became as much of…
November 25, 2014, 5:02 AM IST
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Green Policy Design
November 10, 2014, 2:11 AM IST
By Michael Toffel Governments often use their formidable purchasing power to promote environmental objectives. The US Environmental Protection Agency and the EU, for example, have developed environmentally preferable purchasing guidelines for goods ranging from paint and…
November 10, 2014, 2:11 AM IST
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes case for fighting global warming
November 10, 2014, 1:25 AM IST
The fifth, and final, assessment report of the UN-mandated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is replete with facts, figures and telescopic projections on the risks of global warming. The expert report reiterates “clear and growing”…
November 10, 2014, 1:25 AM IST
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A fallstreak hole – what’s that?
November 5, 2014, 5:36 PM IST
A fallstreak hole is a circular gap that appears in high clouds, when a section of the cloud freezes. The ice crystals are heavy, so they fall out of the cloud, leaving a hole. It…
November 5, 2014, 5:36 PM IST
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What ‘diwali’ smog conceals: Rice cultivation in Punjab and Haryana is triggering an economic and ecological crisis
October 27, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
by Prodipto Ghosh and Shailly Kedia With Diwali a standard cycle has started up over Delhi NCR and other north Indian cities. Balmy post-Dussehra weather has ended and a blanket of smog and polluted air…
October 27, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Aurora Borealis: 7 breathtaking pictures of the Northern Lights
October 7, 2014, 3:50 PM IST
An Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over a mountain camp north of the Arctic Circle, near the village of Mestervik late. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, especially in the…
October 7, 2014, 3:50 PM IST
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Big climate change show; need to change the system
September 23, 2014, 6:01 PM IST
And, we’re back. The big climate change show, five years after its last disastrous flop, is trying for yet another sequel starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Ban Ki Moon, guest starring any number of other celebrities….
September 23, 2014, 6:01 PM IST
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Aravali hills and peacocks
September 17, 2014, 4:47 PM IST
The tall silhouette of the statue of Lord Shiva exuding strength and virility was just about visible in the predawn hours, as yet again about fifty walkers from the Lets Walk Gurgaon group, congregated at…
September 17, 2014, 4:47 PM IST
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Why Ban wants Modi
September 17, 2014, 11:38 AM IST
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s first overseas posting as a South Korean diplomat was to Delhi, his son-law is a former Indian Army officer but as Secretary General he has rarely put out a personal…
September 17, 2014, 11:38 AM IST
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Bihar flood warning: Time for effective crisis management
August 3, 2014, 5:29 PM IST
Issuing flood alerts and evacuating thousands of people living along the banks of the Kosi river in the upper districts of Bihar may prove to be too little in the event of a 10-metre-high wall…
August 3, 2014, 5:29 PM IST
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