Tackling AMR: For LMICs, prevention is the best solution, say experts at CSE's international workshop

India, April 9 -- Recommendations from workshop to inform High-Level Meeting on AMR scheduled at UN General Assembly later this year Prevention is the most effective antidote for growing antimicrobia... Read More

Euthanasia for mental disorders: In a warming world, will eco-anxiety lead to more such appeals?

India, April 4 -- In most assisted dying appeals, people say it is the psychological suffering, rather than physical pain, that motivated them As organisms genetically wired to strive to survive, the... Read More

Do we need 'music in our genes' to be exceptional? Not always, shows Beethoven's DNA analysis

India, March 27 -- A person's genetic predisposition to musicality (or the lack of it) is no indicator of their ability Recent studies on the genetics of musicality has shown that traits such as pitc... Read More

Children don't even have energy to cry: Gaza Strip stares at famine as Israel blocks food access

India, March 19 -- Malnutrition in northern Gaza rose from 0.8% of children under 5 years before the conflict began to over 16% at present Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip and blocking of ... Read More

Are north Indians eating wrong? New study shows imbalances & remedies

India, March 18 -- The average north Indian diet is high in salt and low in potassium, protein, increasing risk of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease & hypertension The food consumed by s... Read More

Electoral bonds: At least 4 companies that gave over Rs 100 cr have history of violating green norms, tribal rights

India, March 15 -- We looked at four companies whose mining & infrastructure projects have been opposed by locals; cumulatively, they paid Rs 1,664 crore to political parties through electoral bonds ... Read More

Future of Taste: In a climate-risked world, eating right is as much about nutrition as it is about the environment, people

India, March 12 -- Luxury emission-based model of food production should be discouraged, especially when the survival of farmers worldwide is jeopardised by climate change Earth is crumbling under th... Read More

What is the 'aid in dying' bill that France is considering?

India, March 11 -- The medical option will only be provided to adults, except those with psychiatric conditions and disorders like Alzeihmer's After adding abortion as a right in its Constitution las... Read More

Departure from the goddess: Sunderbans' women & Bonbibi suffer the worst of climate crisis

India, March 8 -- Women live precarious lives in the cyclone-ravaged delta, as people slowly disconnect from Bonbibi worship & its principles of ecosystem preservation A Bonbibi ' thaan' in Dhyanmaar... Read More

Emic perspective of Indian food reveals untold stories of migrant labourers, women, cattle

India, Feb. 24 -- Food anthropologist Ishita Dey on how migrant labourers adapt their diets during their long train journeys and how sugar is key even in a more health-aware sweets industry The strug... Read More

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