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| Tifli | Catch them young |
| Pooja Singh |
| Live Mint , Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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Take a child to theatre today”—that’s the motto of Tifli, a theatre festival for young audiences in India. Organized by the International Association of Theatre for Children And Young People (As ...More
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| Great Lakes become nearly covered with ice |
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| Business Standard , Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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It's been so bitterly cold for so long that the Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice for the first time in 20 years.
The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94 percent o ...More
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| Engg College NSS Unit Adds Another Feather in its Cap |
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| The New Indian Express , Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
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The NSS unit of Government Engineering College, West Hill, Kozhikode, which has been in the forefront of social service, has reasons to smile as they have bagged the Bhumitra Sena State Award, institu ...More
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| Get ready for more freaky weather |
| Bappa Majumdar |
| The Times of India , Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
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HYDERABAD: India will see more intense freak weather in the coming days, warned climate change scientists, days after hailstorms killed at least 10 people and wounded scores in Andhra Pradesh and simi ...More
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| Afghanistan: Pamirs in peril |
| Rekha Dixit |
| The Week , Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
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When one thinks environmental degradation, the immediate image that forms in mind is of mindless development and uncontrolled consumerism. One does not think of a country like Afghanistan, where decad ...More
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| ‘Mars may still have flowing water' |
| Srinivas Laxman, |
| The Times of India , Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
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MUMBAI: A Nepali student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in the US, Lujendra Ojha, has found possible clues that liquid water may possibly exist on the Red Planet even today using da ...More
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| 'Sikkim has to overcome challenges to become organic' |
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| Business Standard , Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
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Sikkim has set for itself the goal of becoming an organic agricultural state by 2015 -- but there are several challenges that it needs to overcome to see the shift, said an ecology expert from the Him ...More
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| Weather Extremes Hint at Man-made Disaster |
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| The New Indian Express , Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
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Extremes in weather are expected, but what alarms world politicians is the increase in severity and frequency. The US has begun the year with a record fall in the mercury, Australia in 2013 had its ho ...More
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| Tree cheers to Bangalore |
| BHUMIKA K |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
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Bangalore’s first ever tree festival, Neralu, brought under its shade people, stories, histories. BHUMIKA K. spends a Saturday darting from one riveting activity to another
Excited students of Dris ...More
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| Energy as a strategic determinant seen in an Asian matrix |
| Dhanalakshmi Ayyer |
| The Hindu , Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
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Energy, a basic denominator of growth and development, as the driver of the economy, is a major strategy determinant in the contemporary world with increasingly pertinent security concerns. This begs ...More
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| Trade winds spur hiatus in global warming: Study |
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| The Times of India , Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
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SYDNEY: An unprecedented spike in Pacific trade winds has seen global warming slow significantly in the past 12 years but the effect is only temporary and temperatures will surge, a study found on Mon ...More
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| Surveying Birds in the Backyard |
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| The New Indian Express , Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
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We often come across articles and programmes that go on about climate change, habitat destruction and environmental degradation. But how do scientists and researchers determine this? They don’t alwa ...More
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| The politics of particles |
| Sunita Narain |
| Business Standard , Monday, February 10, 2014 |
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Chulhas - cook stoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs, leaves and every other biomass material they can find to cook meals - are today at the centre of failing international action. The conc ...More
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| Note Down the Birds in Your Backyard |
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| The New Indian Express , Monday, February 10, 2014 |
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We often come across articles and programmes that go on about climate change, habitat destruction and environmental degradation. But how do scientists and researchers determine this? They don’t alwa ...More
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