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“The greatest challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the...
Mark Twain once remarked that “Whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” Fresh water is a very precious and limited natural resource...
Throughout the history of human civilisation, every culture has had its own idea of the future. The crushing disappointments that are so often part...
According to the 2010 Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), published by the WHO, indoor air pollution is the second largest killer in India after blood...
Pollution is the presence of a wrong thing, in the wrong place, in the wrong quantity, and at the wrong time. It is evident that such a thing will...
Mark Twain once said ~ “Humour is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our harnesses yield, all our...
Goitre, alternately spelled as goiter, is a non-cancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland. Iodine deficiency is the primary cause of goitre. The...
Since the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), a non-governmental organisation based in Geneva, started collating data on persons...
Recent snapshots of our living earth relayed by satellites above have undoubtedly been among the most dramatic images ever encountered by humans....
Mangrove forests are one of the most vital and fascinating ecosystems on the planet. They occur worldwide in areas with low-oxygen soil, where...