The Choice: A Film on Climate Change
I4SC is extremely proud to present a short movie about climate change created by one of our former interns who has moved on to become an impactful activist in society. Here’s a short summary about her film and its various features written by her. We encourage you to check it …
Basic Design Considerations for the Roof Skin
Introduction Ours is a tropical country. Nature bestows on us vast amounts of sunlight almost every day. In fact, all the energy stored in the fossil fuels world-over equates the amount of sunlight received by earth for a span of just three days! One of the easiest and best ways …
Chennai Floods: The Aftermath
Death Toll Rising While the nation was busy debating over the subjects far less important, victims of Chennai floods died. 400 are dead so far and the toll is still rising as the rescue teams search the ruins for any survivors. And now that we HAVE survivors, credit can only be …
The Odd-Even Plan: Need of The Hour
The rapidly increasing air pollution in Delhi and the increasing number of vehicles have opened the eyes of the Delhi Government to suppress these much worrying problems. The Delhi Government has thus come up with the Odd-Even plan, which aims to restrict the number of vehicles on the road every day. What …
Greenpeace Foreign Funds Banned: A Step Backward For India
On the 3rd of September 2015, the Indian government banned all foreign funds entering the country for Greenpeace. The Indian government has banned foreign funds for Greenpeace which will detrimental to its environment. They are turning away the money that might just save the country, stating that it does not fit under the …
Water and Air: India Has a Pollution Problem
In a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report, it was revealed that New Delhi is the city with the highest amount of air pollution in the world. In India, the most polluted cities of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Rajasthan are in the north. Even worse, air pollution is exacerbating the issue …
Global Warming: You Can’t Escape, India
A few short weeks before the critical UN meeting on global warming in Peru, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reconfirmed in a report earlier this week that surface temperatures in India are rising at an “unprecedented” level. The report stated that the past 30 years have been the …
Climate and Agriculture: How India Can 'Make it Rain'
With the rising temperatures contributing to the ongoing drought, India’s climate is far from pleasant. Rainfall has already been 44% below the average thus far into the monsoon season, and as El Nino approaches, weather forecasts have started indicating that a 7% rain deficit is a likely scenario; India will have a …
River Rapti in Gorakhpur Sees Decrease in Zooplankton Because of Sewage
A study was recently published in the World Journal of Zoology titled, “Effect of Domestic Sewage on Zooplankton Community in River Rapti at Gorakhpur, India.” The Background India has a huge clean water and sanitation problem, which only gets worse with an increasing population. One of the major reasons clean water …
