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Maintain and raise MSP to protect the rivers Maintain and raise MSP to protect the rivers Arun Kumar Gupta, Bharat Jhunjhunwala The farmers are agitating for ensuring the continuation of Minimum Support Price (MSP) by legislation. One aspect of this demand is that they be assured of minimum remunerative prices for their produce. Another aspect is that MSP can become the instrument for saving our rivers. According to the Consortium of the Indian Institutes of Technologies that made the Ganga Ri...

Residents of a slum near Sarai Rohilla Railway line, in New Delhi, September 13, 2020. Photo: PTI/Atul Yadav. Climate change is threatening your health like never before, no matter which part of the world you live in, according to the fifth edition of The Lancet Countdown. This is an initiative to document the health effects of climate change, and enlists scientists of multiple disciplines from 35 academic institutions and UN agencies. The collaboration assesses governments’ actions on their...

For a Maharashtra village, a sediment layer deposited by an Indonesian volcano is a matter of pride Villagers from Bori Budruk near Pune are on a mission to preserve the geological marvel on the bed of Kukadi river. Dec 19, 2020 · 09:30 pm Pushpa and Amol Korde from Bori Budruk are leading efforts to preserve the unique geomorphological feature. | Svabhu Kohli for Mongabay For villagers of Bori Budruk, the geological term “tephra” is a local legend. The village, ar...

Pune | Updated: December 16, 2020 8:14:52 am Roddam Narasimha THE LAST major honour bestowed on Roddam Narasimha was a lifetime achievement award from Nature magazine in 2019 for ‘Mentoring in Science’. Some of his students, outstanding scientists themselves, say Narasimha, one of the doyens of Indian science who passed away in Bengaluru on Monday at the age of 87, was as great a teacher and mentor as an accomplished scientist. “He was almost the perfe...