This is brilliant and critically important. Global South scientists and climate negotiators are calling for climate mitigation scenarios that are consistent with global justice principles. africanarguments.org/2024/04/modell…

The climate crisis is not gender neutral - by Soumya Swaminathan.

Launch alert -- journos, scholars, dev sector people -- 'data for India' is an open platform with info on key human indices of the country: population, health, labour, education and living conditions. Check out this beautifully curated site by Rukmini S

dataforindia.com

The Elephant knows that if there is no food in forest, it has to come to Food Corporation Of India godown to get food. 🐘

Last few months I received multiple calls from folks calling themselves employees of State Bank of India asking me to pay a premium of Rs 50K for life insurance allegedly taken in 2015. Despite multiple requests to provide a copy of the said insurance for confirmation, no response.

There are days when I just want to write letters to no one in particular. Today is that day. Weird, eh?

Not 'rescue' but modern day slavery.

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A big shout out to IISER Pune both for centre staging tribal artists and for sustainability experiments-- first thing Nidhi Jamwal told me last eve. It's a mixed bag, but well we are trying, I said. Two observations put together have a diff impact. It's imp to pause & note.

When an article using AI & ChatGPT for main text get past peer-review & editors!! Can't blame AI that declared its contribution to the article but authors didn't.

Water engineering has a fetish for hard infrastructure 'solutions'which suppress a crisis instead of addressing it. Unless we move towards restoring urban watersheds, these 'pipe dreams' will continue to produce nightmares.
downtoearth.org.in/blog/water/ben…

Partha Majumder's piece: telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-pr…
I understand that science and conscience come to a conflicted collaboration in the making of 'scientific temper.' These two elements within the universe of scientific temper are reciprocally interdependent.

If you are a science journalist in India please do take this survey. It will really help inform our courses and teacing material ScienceMediaCentre Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol

“I have no doubt that if we had gender parity at the decision-making levels around the world, at all levels, we would not have the number of wars we have today.”

This is what António Guterres had to say regarding pushback during crises at the #SGTownhall .

#CSW68

बेंगलुरु में जलसंकट: लोगों ने सीएम से  वर्क फ्रॉम होम की लगाई गुहार, कोचिंग सेंटर्स और स्कूलों ने  बच्चों को घर से  ही क्लास लेने को कहा

#WaterCrisis #Bengaluru

अधिक खबरें और ई-पेपर पढ़ने के लिए दैनिक भास्कर ऐप इंस्टॉल करें - dainik-b.in/mjwzCSxDdsb

📢 Pleased to share India Flood portal based on the long-term (1901-2020) hydrological model based data at sub-basin level. Please explore the portal: indiafloodatlas.in The portal is based on recent publication: hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/11… Aman Chaudhary

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Academic commentators should “focus on the big picture” and remember their legions of “silent” supporters when they find themselves targeted by trolls, according to a creator of an online toolkit to help scientists deal with abusive social media. timeshighereducation.com/news/social-me…