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Minutes Apart, A Capital Shaken: Venezuela’s Double Earthquake And The Strain Of Disaster On A Fractured State

adminJune 27, 2026June 26, 202607 mins

TWO TREMORS, ONE CAPITAL, NO WARNING Earthquakes rarely announce themselves twice. Venezuela was struck by back-to-back powerful earthquakes minutes apart on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, with buildings collapsing in the capital, Caracas, in a country whose institutional capacity to respond to large-scale disaster has been quietly eroding for years under economic crisis and political turmoil…

A Country Without Air Conditioning: France’s Deadliest Heatwave In Years

adminJune 25, 202607 mins

THE RIVER AS THE ONLY REFUGE In a country where most homes and even many offices have no air conditioning, the river becomes the only democratic relief from heat that has nowhere else to go. Such is the story behind France’s deadliest heatwave-driven drowning toll in recent memory. At least 45 deaths since June 18,…

Renew15 The Venture Creating India’s Clean Energy Future and Built It

adminJune 25, 2026June 25, 2026015 mins

The Bet Nobody in Indian Finance Wanted to Take In 2011, when Sumant Sinha left his position as Chief Financial Officer of the Aditya Birla Group’s renewable energy business to found his own company, the Indian renewable energy sector was not yet the story it would become. Installed solar capacity in India at that point…

SHASHI SHEKHAR The Water that Sustains Life

adminJune 24, 2026June 25, 2026015 mins

There’s a type of courage you don’t always notice, but it takes real guts and a special kind of patience: the courage to challenge the system from inside. Think about the researcher who puts out findings nobody wants to hear, or the judge who gives an unpopular verdict. Then there’s the administrator who tells the…

The Great Derangement A Staple Climate Coursebook

adminJune 23, 2026June 23, 2026010 mins

Amitav Ghosh never set out to write a polemic with The Great Derangement. The book started life as the Berlin Family Lectures at the University of Chicago, and you can still feel that origin in its final form: it’s restless, essayistic, and willing to chase an argument wherever it leads. Ghosh roams across literary criticism,…

The Invisible Drop in Every AI Answer

adminJune 22, 2026June 22, 2026010 mins

We ask AI for things dozens of times a day without ever once thinking about what it costs the planet to answer me. A recipe idea here, a draft email there, maybe a generated image for a birthday card, a quick summary of a paper we don’t have time to read. It’s so fast, so…

The Air We Cannot Ignore: CAQM’s Enforcement Push and Delhi’s Pollution Accountability Crisis

adminJune 18, 2026June 18, 202607 mins

THE AIR IN THE ROOM Delhi’s air problem is not a mystery. It has been studied, modelled, mapped, and legislated over for two decades. The Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) IS a statutory body established in 2021 with powers overriding all state agencies. It exists precisely…

Conservation Through Inclusion: Why Reducing Poverty is Essential for Protecting India’s Forests

adminJune 18, 2026June 17, 202608 mins

For decades, environmental protection and poverty reduction were often seen as opposing priorities, as though supporting one meant sacrificing the other. Forests were these fragile spaces, supposedly safe only if people stayed out, while raising rural incomes was some separate struggle. But recent research tells a different story. According to the International Forestry Resources and…

Wind Energy: India’s Invisible Infrastructure And Its Most Ambitious Deadline Yet

adminJune 17, 2026June 17, 202606 mins

THE SOUND OF PROGRESS There is something deeply honest about wind energy. Unlike a coal plant, it needs no fuel. Unlike a dam, it does not submerge valleys. It simply spins quietly, relentlessly and converts movement into electricity. On June 15, 2026, the Global Wind Day Conference convened in Goa under the theme ‘Wind Energy:…

VIMLA BAHUGUNA:Veteran Environmentalist

adminJune 17, 2026June 16, 2026019 mins

Vimla Bahuguna (1932- 2025), the veteran environmentalist, combined grounded constructive work with far-reaching sociopolitical activism. From her home in the Himalayas, she built up resistance to deforestation, big dams, destructive mining, commercial forestry, violence and abuse. During the 1970s,along with thousands of local women, she created the Chipko movement, which reverberated across the globe. Today,…