This is the World’s First Fully Solar Powered Airport. (It Serves as Many People as Dulles Airport) Mark Leon Goldberg August 1, 2018The United Nations Environment is bestowing its highest annual honor on an airport in India for being the first airport in the world to function entirely on solar energy. UN Environment named Cochin International Airport as the 2018 recipient of its Champion o...
An Outbreak of Nipah Virus in India Can Help Explain the Future of Infectious Disease Alanna Shaikh, MPH June 15, 2018India’s Kerala state has just faced an outbreak of Nipah virus. Seventeen people have died so far. That wouldn’t seem so serious, but only eighteen people were infected. To make matters worse, there is no known cure or vaccine for Nipah – all doctors can offe...
Map of the Day: The Countries Where Pollution is Most Deadly Mark Leon Goldberg October 27, 2017Pollution is not just a nuisance. It can kill people--and by the millions. It also keeps countries worst affected by it poorer and unequal.A new study from The Lancet describes the severe, planetary-scale, harm caused by pollution. Some nine million people...
An Indian Court Decision Takes One Step in the Right Direction for the Rights of Women Coby Jones October 20, 2017Last week, a two-man bench of the Indian Supreme Court ruled that sex with any underage girl, regardless of whether she is married or not, would be considered an act of rape.This ruling, in a country with the highest rate of child marriage in the world acc...
Map of the Day: Historic Flooding in South Asia Cuts a MUCH wider path than Harvey John Light August 31, 2017As the US reels from the lasting affects of Hurricane Harvey, a historically powerful storm arriving at the peak of hurricane season, tens of millions of South Asians halfway around the world are also deep in Monsoon Season, which, this year, has also brou...
Map of the Day: Where it Will Be Too Hot To Live By 2100 Mark Leon Goldberg August 3, 2017Today's map comes from scientists at MIT, who found that significant portions of Southeast Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could be uninhabitable in 73 years. Using climate modeling scenarios, the team of researchers let by Elfatih Eltahir found...
Solar is booming in India, but the country’s solar panel industry could be facing a dimmer future John Light August 1, 2017Solar is booming in India, but the country’s solar panel industry could be facing a dimmer future.At the end of this year, India will end its “domestic content requirement” for solar projects that are part of its National Solar Mission, a component of the ...
Here’s What Happens When Thousands of Fireworks are Set Off in the World’s Most Polluted City Georgina Rannard October 31, 2016Residents of the Indian capital Delhi woke up this morning to record-breaking smog suffocating the city. Millions of people last night set off fireworks to celebrate Diwali - the Hindu festival of light - but revelers are paying the price today as air pollutan...
Somini Sengupta: The World’s Youngest Country Faces Some Serious Growing Pains Mark Leon Goldberg March 21, 2016Somini Sengupta is the United Nations correspondent for the New York Times. She's the author of the new book The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young which tells the story of a huge demographic challenge facing India today, where 365 million peo...
