News, articles, tips & tricks
Let us kick-start a new model
We still have time to mend our ways. Let us include the environment into our development agenda. Else the loss will be irreversible. The danger bells have already started ringing on the global warming front. We are seeing the planet temperature hottest since 125,000 years! This summer India had 95 of the world’s hottest cities,…
Learn more
Earth: Our Wonderland
Thanks to the Artemis 2 mission recently, we have had some delightful images of how our home planet, the Earth looks from space. A blue beautiful marble against a dark backdrop, our Earth looks vulnerable and lonely. But what those images do not reveal is the magic that brims within – of an intricate, interdependent…
Learn more
It’s elementary, Watson!
The talk in my city Bengaluru (sorry, the image above is some other city) these days is mostly on the climate. We take it a day at a time. Every new day presents an opportunity to compare the heat with the previous day. And take solace if today was better. But fretting we are! And…
Learn more
We all are losers or winners
What happens when you see a sudden wide crack on the wall at home? Or, you notice that a tap is leaking? The paint peeling off, the roof plaster falling off? You rush off to get a builder to check and do the needful. Right? But when the bigger home, our planet, cries for attention…
Learn more
One-third of all species threatened with extinction!
If you have ever felt happy listening to a birdcall or seeing a flash of crimson in a bleak desert landscape, you are in for some depressing news from the IUCN. Three out of five of the bird species have declining populations. IUCN’s latest Red List puts a third of the tropical birds on the…
Learn more
‘Only if we help shall we be saved’
Two days before Nature Day, one of nature’s fervent champions Jane Goodall bid goodbye to the world. At 91, she had a long history of campaigning for environment conservation and wildlife. But not just that. Dr Goodall was also a vegan who spoke out on the sad plight of farm animals. Many also may not…
Learn more