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Ambika Hiranandani

Protecting India’s biodiversity should be on our agenda

June 5, 2020

The theme for the World Environment Day this year is biodiversity. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, India is a megadiverse country. Our landscapes ranging from mountains to wetlands support 45,000 species of plants and 91,000 species of animals. Although we cover 2.4% of the world’s...

Lockdown lessons that can help us deal with climate change

May 18, 2020

Covid-19 has changed the world we live in. The the World Health Organization (WHO) has received reports of four million cases of Covid-19 and almost 275,000 lives have been lost. We have made peace with the fact that we may need to live altered lives for the next twelve to...