Third COVID-19 ‘Wave’ Strikes Delhi, HC Lifts Stay on Reserving Private ICU Beds by The Wire Staff 13/11/2020 3 mins Read 0 Shares ...

The name Sundarbans is derived from the name of Sundari tree which has adapted to the high tides in the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers delta. Photo: Maitheli Maitra/Unsplash Panchanan Dolui, ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Patan, Gujarat: Hetal [name changed] was in her late 30s and pregnant with her fifth child when she was persuaded by an Accredited Social Health ...

For more than a century, people around the world have tried to stop “encroaching deserts” by planting “green walls” of trees, sometimes thousands of kilometres long. These efforts have failed. Tree ...

Chandigarh: India’s energy requirements are spiking. Electricity consumption has more than doubled since the year 2000. And this trend is only likely to continue ...

Building codes are not new to India, and the first iteration of the National Building Code (NBC) dates back to 1970. While the NBC had general building guidelines in place, there were none pertaining ...

If you care about the environment, you’ve heard about carbon calculators, the digital tools that allow people to calculate their carbon footprint – a measurement of how much carbon dioxide – ...

Comparison of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Photo: hairymuseummatt (original photo), DrMikeBaxter (derivative work), CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia ...

The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility. Photo: Damien Jemison/LLNL CC BY SA 3.0 But in truth, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely ...

The current scholarly publishing system is detrimental to the pursuit of knowledge and needs a radical shift. Publishers have already anticipated new trends and have tried to protect their profits.

A view of the Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo: Arif Siddiqui/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This article is the first of a two-part series that examines India’s plans for over two dozen mega ...

Siddhartha Mukherjee at the University of Texas at Austin, April 2017. Photo: Moody College of Communication, CC BY-SA 2.0 Truly, we live in an age of exploration at extreme scale. Even as the James ...