Saving Karoonjhar on February 3, 2020Karoonjhar, a historical mountain of Tharparkar is covered with world’s unique granite rocks as it constituted oldest rocks of earth’s crust and china clay. Karoonjhar hills are home to animals, birds and rare species, including peacocks, deer etc. It was the only source of water for humans, birds, animals in Nagarparkar. The mountain also stood […]
Reducing human impact on planet on November 2, 2016Under the current trajectory, the future of many living organisms in the Anthropocene is uncertain; in fact, several indicators give cause for alarm. The Living Planet Index, which measures biodiversity abundance levels based on 14,152 monitored populations of 3,706 vertebrate species, shows a persistent downward trend. The Living Planet report 2016 titled “Risks and resilience […]
Climate change and poverty reduction on September 22, 2016Despite international efforts, poverty has become more widespread in many countries in the last decade, making poverty reduction the core challenge for development in the 21st century. In the Millennium Declaration, 189 nations have resolved to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and all agencies involved in this paper are committed to contribute to this aim. […]
An invisible cost of road accidents on August 22, 2016Globally, about 1.24 million people die every year on roads, and another 20 to 50 million sustain nonfatal injuries as a result of road traffic crashes. These injuries and deaths have immeasurable impact on the families affected, whose lives are often changed irrevocably by these tragedies, and on the communities in which these people lived […]