World Toilet Day Special: Kate Medlicott on the role of water, sanitation and hygiene to combat AMR
What are the linkages of water, sanitation and hygiene in combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?
What are the linkages of water, sanitation and hygiene in combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?
Antibiotic resistance or AMR has become a global concern. This is particularly because of the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in animal rearing.
Most of the people living in megacities in India have very little or almost no connection to how their food is produced. This task is left to the majority of the nameless farmers in our villages.
During the pandemic-induced lockdown period, PM 2.5 levels across six major Indian cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru – dropped a phenomenal 45-88 per cent. The drop in Delhi-NCR was of about 66-79 per cent. However, with the nation opening up in lockdown 4, pollution has started registering a comeback.
Let me ask a simple question? Which or what is the biggest business community in India? Give this a careful bit of thinking.
On 20th September 2020, the upper house of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, approved three agricultural reform bills.
The covid-19 pandemic can be regarded as the globalised world’s most localised emergency. It has gained notoriety as the world’s fastest disease outbreak that turned into a pandemic.
Construction and demolition (C&D) waste pose serious environmental and material challenges.
The Delhi government on August 7 unveiled its new policy to promote electric vehicles in the state. Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director and head of Centre for Science and Environment's
We may not be absolutely certain about the origin of COVID-19, but, what we know for a fact is that most human disease-causing pathogens came from animals. And when I say most, I mean over 60% of them. This transference of a disease from an animal to human beings is called Zoonoses,
Anumita Roychowdhury, head of air pollution and mobility at New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment
Increasing ocean temperatures adversely affect fishing economies worldwide.
Global average temperature rise should not exceed 1.5°C if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided, says IPCC.
Amit Khurana, Programme Director Programme Director Food Safety & Toxins, Centre for Science and Environment, talks about the findings of the study on GM ingredients in foods.
Rajarshi Banerjee, laboratory head Centre for Science and Environment details the method GMOs in packaged foods.
A study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found dangerously high levels of salt and fat in Indian junk food.