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Aerosol pollution is a health hazard that also destabilises Earth’s climate

Conrad Fox 10 Mar 2022

India’s dietary guidelines have a relatively lower carbon footprint: study

Sahana Ghosh 16 Jun 2021
Women farmers at work in their vegetable plots near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh, India. Photo by CIAT - NP Himachal Pradesh 68/Wikimedia Commons.

Increased farm work negatively impacts women’s nutrition: study

Sahana Ghosh 14 May 2021
A vendor carrying LPG cylinders

Government survey paints a different picture of Ujjwala scheme claims

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2021

Bridging the gender gap through groundwater monitoring in a Rajasthan village

Sahana Ghosh 29 Jun 2020

[Commentary] A post-lockdown pathway for forest-edge communities of central India

Ruth DeFries 8 May 2020

[Commentary] Covid-19 and food security: Lessons for Indian Agriculture

M.S. Swaminathan (as told to Nitya Rao) 22 Apr 2020

[Commentary] In the post-COVID world, health security must be a matter of national security

Shahid Jameel 8 Apr 2020
Millions of migrant communities rushed to return to their villages amid the pandemic-associated lockdown in India. Photo by Prerna Prasad.

No escape from environmental distress as migrants return home in pandemic lockdown

Sahana Ghosh 7 Apr 2020

[Commentary] COVID-19 proves that health, biodiversity and climate action are tied goals

Seema Paul 3 Apr 2020

Where is the water to wash my hands?

Supriya Vohra 2 Apr 2020

Deforestation and disease: How natural habitat destruction can fuel zoonotic diseases

T. V. Padma 1 Apr 2020

[Interview] “Must not target ethnic groups and create prejudice over COVID-19”

Sahana Ghosh 27 Mar 2020

Pollution watchdog releases guidelines to handle COVID-19 biomedical waste

Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2020

Caught between virus outbreaks, Kerala’s model for public healthcare lauded

K.A. Shaji 20 Mar 2020

[Interview] Taking One Health approach to tackle zoonoses crucial for India

Sahana Ghosh 19 Mar 2020

Madhya Pradesh’s ‘fluoride warriors’ unleash citizen science to empower community

Sahana Ghosh 2 Mar 2020

Dust storms could spread microbes, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 30 Dec 2019

Preparing health systems to deal with disasters

Sahana Ghosh 26 Dec 2019
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Delayed Indian monsoon, Cyclone Fani ‘high impact’ events of 2019

Sahana Ghosh 5 Dec 2019