Greta Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish school girl who is rocking the world with her protest against inaction on climate change

We need a model of agricultural growth that will value local good food production and not have to first "chemicalise" and then learn better

We have to change this cycle of destruction, where we shift our consumption to poorer regions where pollution does not matter. Livelihoods do

Each drop must bring more crop and more of everything

It is a movement which seeks better governance and community rights over natural resources - land, water, forests - for better management

Crop burning, dust pollution, vehicular pollution, thermal power generation, have all been around for donkeys years. They all cause air pollution but are marginal contributors .

There is one chemical that is igniting much fuss these days — legislators in New Zealand want it banned; South African leaders are asking why they are continuing to use it; closer to home in Sri La

Let's take stock of what we have done and what needs to be done for the right to clean air

As the festival of Diwali and winter season draw near, Delhi-NCR is gearing up to meet the severe air quality challenge that it faces every year around this time. A Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) has been notified and is already in place – and October 17, 2017 is the day from when Very Poor and Severe categories of GRAP will be imposed till March 15, 2018. This was announced in a press conference by the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA), the committee constituted by the Central government following orders passed by the Supreme Court of India in 1998.

Globally, it is clear that climate change is happening and has made economies and people insecure

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