By Rishi Srivastava & Dr. Tejas Kusurkar, Cofounders Offgrid Energy Labs For half a century, India…
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Concrete Heat Traps: Chennai Study Exposes ‘Chronic’ Nighttime Stress in Urban Housing
Millions of India’s urban residents are living in “heat traps” where indoor temperatures peak long after…
The $30 Trillion Blank Slate: Inside the Scientific Blueprint to Build a Net-Zero India from Scratch
Imagine a global superpower where 90% of the cities, power grids, and transit systems required for…
Nallah Maar – A requiem for Srinagar’s buried stream
By Shakoor Rather A wooden boat glides through placid waters against a setting sun as fishermen…
‘Silent Infernos’: Deadly heatwaves imperil lives of women in India and Pakistan
By Shakoor Rather and Izhar Ullah When heatwaves overpower the cities, women are the ones most…
India Could Save 124,000 Lives Annually with 10% Emission Cut, Study Finds
Cutting carbon emissions in India by just 10 per cent would save 124,000 lives each year.…
Sudden Stratospheric Warming Behind North India’s Deep Freeze, Scientists Find
North India’s unusually harsh January 2024 cold wave—six straight days of piercing chill from the 21st…
World Conference of Science Journalists 2025 concludes with urgent calls for equitable science reporting amid global crises
The 13th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ 2025), hosted at the CSIR International Convention Centre…
Book Review: The Forest Unseen Is Poetic Tranquility In The Biological World
By Nighat Hafiz “Haskell thinks like a biologist, writes like a poet, and gives the natural…
Nanoparticle-Coated Fibres: IIT Bombay’s Breakthrough in Water Purification Technology
Highlights: ● IIT Bombay researchers develop a single-step microfluidic method to make nanoparticle-coated microfibres. ●…