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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees – stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
Beyond wishful thinking: Can technology stop global heating by sucking CO2 out of the air?
‘As India’s Groundwater Runs Dry, Calls for Reform Grow’: The worsening water crisis highlights an urgent need for better groundwater governance in India. Also: ‘Scientists Raise Alarm as Rural Water Supply Goes from Depths to Debt’.
‘The Wobbling Planet – It’s Destabilizing!’; ‘Global Heating isn’t Just Getting Worse. It is Getting Worse Faster’; and: ‘Climate Change is Making Hurricanes More Destructive’.
A significant economic slowdown into stagnation, alongside still relatively high inflation; a crippling debt burden for the majority of the world’s population eking out a bare living; and an accelerating climate crisis—none of these issues will be discussed in the Rockies or in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm.
As Greta Thunberg has widened her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza she has labeled a “genocide”, the global elite has dropped her, and coverage of her in the newspapers has drastically fallen.
“1.5 is Dead: How Hot Will the Earth Get?”; and: “‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study”.
More than 56 million Indians lost their homes over 15 years to floods, erosion, landslides and other growing disasters related to climate change, but neither a 2005 law nor its 2024 amendment provides for relocation and resettlement.
The sinking of MSC ELSA 3 and its impact on Kerala’s coast isn’t a freak accident—it’s the fallout of building a port on a fragile coastline.
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