Proper guidance needed for environmental campaigns: Kamal Hassan

Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, who has decided to help in the cleaning up of 25 lakes in Tamil Nadu in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India campaign, ...

Akon To Headline Peace One Day Concert In Democratic Republic Of Congo

Peace One Day will make history on September 21 by holding a concert at Goma International Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This celebration will be headl...

India's double challenge

While climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, traditional system of flood management through lakes and connected water channels has been forgo...

Disabled man hopes to meet Bollywood star

PEEL – The hot news about Bollywood megastar Salman Khan’s appearance at a Brampton event on Aug. 30 has spread like a wild fire. Fans of Bollywood’s Daba...

Rain hits Mumbai, BMC rolls out 15% water cut

On a day when Mumbai got its first good rain of the season, the municipal corporation announced water cuts across the city. For at least a fortnight, beginning Thursday, th...

Sea Pollution Rate Alarming; Let’s Check It

Every year June 8 is observed as the World Ocean Day to underscore a need to protect the great body of salt water, which covers 70.78 per cent of the earth’s surface....

Threat of Uttarakhand-like disaster in Himachal Pradesh

Increased vulnerability of Himachal Pradesh to climate change has posed the threat of Uttarakhand like disaster. In 2013, bursting of a small lake in front of Chorabari gla...

Hydro-power plants blamed for deadly floods in India

Badly managed hydro-power projects in northern India were partly to blame for devastating floods last year that killed thousands of people and caused extensive damage, an e...

Drought followed by brain: How climate change spurred evolution of human intelligence

Scientists show shifts from dry to wet and back in East Africa’s Rift Valley caused the development of the human brain.

Humans evolved their ...