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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 River Basin Management Plan, the rivers are the best measure of the overall health of our environment....

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 commitments under the Paris Agreement, in which 197 countries have committed to limit global warmin...

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, around 100-km from Pune city, is nestled along the banks of the Kukadi river. With a population of aro...

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 perfect guru, deeply steeped in the Indian tradition. I could sense that in the very first lecture I atte...