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When the Black Death killed half of Europe in the 1340s, ecologists expected the land to bloom; instead, plant diversity plummeted for 150 years until farming returnedA new study reveals the Black Death's devastating impact on Europe's plant life. The plague's population crash led to a sharp decline in pl...- BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...
- No ice or cone, just milk and fire. Himachal Pradesh’s unique ice cream is served in leaf platesDiscover Malai Baraf, a traditional Himachali ice cream prepared without freezers or modern machines. This unique dessert is made by slow-c...
- Japanese proverb of the day: “Even dust, when piled up, becomes a mountain.” Small, consistent efforts accumulate into great achievements over time — a lesson on how today’s generation can turn tiny daily efforts into massive successJapanese proverb of the day: Small daily efforts build success faster than most people expect. Data shows 1% daily growth can deliver nearl...
- Dark Oxygen, Singing Dunes, Uphill Rivers: 9 “Impossible” Things Science Can Now ExplainScientists have demystified astonishing natural events once thought impossible. From oxygen forming in deep oceans without sunlight to sand...
- Govardhan Puja 2022: Date, muhurat, significance, & how solar eclipse affects the timingDate and muhurat for Govardhan Puja, 2022: As per the beliefs of Hindu mythology, one should perform the Govardhan Puja on Pratipada Tithi ...
- View: First roll out promised pro-farmer measures, then implement the farm lawsThe sensible thing to do would be to hold the laws in abeyance for a year, while accepting one crucial amendment: to move dispute resolutio...
- Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Congress pushing aam aadmi laws to leave BJP cluelessElections are due in seven months and Sonia Gandhi made sure that Congress comes out with a powerful message: it stands for rights-based we...
- The Food Bill will not serve the purpose, even for CongressIf the food security Bill is finally implemented, all it will do is to supplement part of what the states spend on food subsidy with money ...
- Prune the Food Security Bill of its flaws before passing itIt would make sense to defer the right to food law till the cash transfer scheme is up and running, and then give cash transfers for food t...
- Too much wheat? Here’s what to doThe government should go ahead and lower the minimum export price of wheat of $274 per tonne to ship out around five million tonnes of whea...
- States lifted only 70% additional foodgrains released by CentreSome of the extreme laggard states were MP which picked up just 42% of its share , Bengal (50%), Bihar (52%) and Maharashtra (62%).
- Making Pranab Mukherjee the President won't boost governance, making him PM mightIf govt has to get back to its feet, it needs a politician & an administrator to head it, someone who can govern firmly, win friends across...
- Food Security Bill likely to hurt the poor moreThe right way to guarantee every Indian food security is to act to make India a major source of the additional food the world demands.
- A new food crisisSurplus stocks that rot in the open and depress farmer incomes pose new threat.
- Skewed policies: Wheat replacing corn in poultry feedAs the government twiddles its thumbs on allowing export of surplus grains, wheat prices have plunged below not just the government's promi...
- Run down food stocks10 MT wheat is stored in the open & runs the risk of getting spoilt.
- Queues back at ration shops as prices pinchRation shops have become India’s lifeline as prices in private shops are beyond most consumer budgets. Consumers are now buying 64 per cent...
- 'Himalayan tragedy awaits India, China'Shrinking Himalayan glaciers are going to turn Chinese and Indian rivers like the Ganga and the Yangtze into seasonal rivers that dry up in...
- 'Himalayan tragedy awaits India, China'Lester Brown, a leading environmental scientist, has warned that shrinking Himalayan glaciers could eventually lead to "politically unmanag...
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