Meat raises heat: a multimedia report
Go organic for your health, and that of the planet, say experts
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Common sense and climate change
The only way to restrain climate change is an upsurge in peoples’ movements for environment, peace, justice and equality, journalist Bharat Dogra underlines in his new book
Want fresh food? Push policy
An efficient and clean cold chain for Indian agriculture needs a policy push that would stop the staggering waste of farm produce in the country
Pests love a warmer world
As climate change gathers pace, insects are proliferating across the world, which scientists say will threaten food production, particularly in bio-diverse countries like India
High temperatures to scorch India this summer
Forecasts of increasing heat waves and below-normal monsoon point to a torrid Indian summer that will affect lives, livelihoods and productivity
Climate change is killing off Earth’s little creatures
The natural world depends on insects to function, but they may be the next casualty of climate change, as habitat change, pollution and the intensification of agriculture drive dramatic declines in their numbers
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