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Sandipan Talukdar
Save the Oceans: Greenpeace Report Reveals Need to Regulate Deep-Sea Mining
06 Jul 2019
Environmentalists apprehend that the proposed mining would not only have a devastating effect on the delicate marine ecosystem, but also the global fight against climate breakdown would be threatened.
Prabir Purkayastha
Are Indian Engineers Being Scapegoated for Boeing 737 Max Fiasco?
02 Jul 2019
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha and defense analyst D. Raghunandan discuss recent reports that blame Indian software engineers for the crashes of the Boeing 737 Max that killed 346 people.
Sandipan Talukdar
Asteroid Collision That Led to Dinosaurs’ Extinction Helped Tiny Lichens to Bloom
02 Jul 2019
The study on lichen evolution is important as it underlined how profoundly the natural world that we know today was shaped by the mass extinction which occurred 66 million years ago.
Sandipan Talukdar
Bonn Climate Conference: Saudi Arabia and US Oppose Scientific Findings
29 Jun 2019
The conference reportedly witnessed opposition to the scientific findings by UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report produced in October 2018.
Sandipan Talukdar
Humanity to Witness ‘Climate Apartheid’ Soon, Says UN Report
27 Jun 2019
“While people in poverty are responsible for just a fraction of global emissions, they will bear the brunt of climate change, and have the least capacity to protect themselves,” said UN Special…
Sandipan Talukdar
High Income Countries Have Least Confidence in Vaccination, Says Wellcome Global Monitor Report
26 Jun 2019
The survey was conducted in more than 140 countries and includes over 140,000 people, and talks about people’s attitude towards science and major health challenges.
Newsclick Report
Kerala HC Gives Go-Ahead for Screening Anand Patwardhan’s Film in Kerala Festival
25 Jun 2019
The single-judge bench of Justice Shaji P Chaly over-ruled the Centre’s objection that the documentary “might affect law & order”, even as per the I&B Ministry’s own guidelines.
Sandipan Talukdar
New Method of Protein Structure Elucidation with Mutant Genes
24 Jun 2019
“Early indications suggest the technique can solve structures with only a fraction of all possible mutants. The approach could even work using measures of stability for proteins that lack known…
Saurabh Sharma
Critically Endangered Gharial Count Increases in UP’s Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary
21 Jun 2019
The birth of over 150 hatchlings of this species of crocodile, which is endemic to India, has increased the count by 50% in the sanctuary that falls within the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.
Sandipan Talukdar
Bitcoin Transactions Count for Massive Carbon Emission
21 Jun 2019
“The carbon footprint is big enough to make it worth discussing the possibility of regulating cryptocurrency mining in regions where power generation is specially carbon intensive.”