Malavika Vyawahare tells science and environment stories using words, photos and multimedia. She studied environmental journalism at Columbia University and is based in Delhi.
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Centre finalises action plan to tackle air pollution, SC says extend it to other states
The plan incorporates monitoring and oversight mechanisms to check implementation. The plan is based on a draft plan formulated by the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA).
Updated on Jan 25, 2018 11:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Malavika Vyawahare, New Delhi
$30mn Google Lunar XPRIZE dream ends for 5 teams, including India’s Team Indus
Organisers says Google Lunar XPRIZE will go unclaimed as no team will be able to make a launch attempt by the deadline of 31 March
Updated on Jan 24, 2018 10:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Malavika Vyawahare
India among 5 worst countries in terms of environmental health
The report said that low ranking of the emerging economies — China and India — reflect “the strain population pressures and rapid economic growth impose on the environment”.
Updated on Jan 24, 2018 11:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
One lakh old ACs to be replaced in govt buildings in bid to conserve energy
The plan is to have all 2500 central government offices and public sector company buildings covered by June.
Updated on Jan 24, 2018 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Modi has reasons to put climate change on top of his agenda at Davos
A recent global study found that the number of Indians affected by river floods may increase five times in the next 25 years unless additional checks were put in place.
Updated on Jan 23, 2018 05:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Working group formed for collaboration between science, environment ministries
The working group will meet every month and a ministry-level meeting will be held quarterly.
Published on Jan 23, 2018 12:35 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Malavika Vyawahare
2017 was fourth consecutive hottest year for India: IMD
Warming of temperatures has been a global phenomenon, with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Thursday declaring 2017 as one of the three hottest years on record.
Updated on Jan 19, 2018 08:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare, New Delhi
Air pollution-linked deaths will triple by 2050 if no action is taken: report
The report analysed three different scenarios, business as usual, ambitious and aspirational action on air pollution.
Updated on Jan 19, 2018 01:48 PM IST
Warm winter spells doom for farm, tourism sectors in Himalayan states
The Rs 7,000-crore sector in Himalayan states reels under high temperature, low rainfall
Updated on Jan 18, 2018 09:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Shimla/Dehradun/New Delhi | Saurabh Chauhan, Anupam Trivedi and Malavika Vyawahare
In next 25 years river floods to impact six times more Indians
Indians are no strangers to annual floods during monsoons when many rivers burst their banks. But now, a new study has warned that floods may increase exponentially over the next 25 years.
Published on Jan 13, 2018 04:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Chandrayaan-2, Oceansat-3: Isro’s launch plans in 2018
The space agency’s agenda is to increase the number of launches through participation of the private sector.
Published on Jan 12, 2018 01:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Isro successfully launches PSLV rocket, 100th satellite Cartosat-2 placed into orbit
Cartosat-2 will boost data services for users that will be used in urban and rural applications, coastal land use and regulation, monitoring of road networks, water distribution, land use mapping.
Updated on Jan 13, 2018 08:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
As ISRO readies to launch Cartosat-2 satellite today, tension builds over August disaster
ISRO will also be launching its 100th satellite into the space along with 30 other satellites, including 28 from six other countries from its spaceport at Sriharikota.
Updated on Jan 11, 2018 11:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Delhi’s pollution hotspots: Vehicles and factories suffocate Shahdara
Home to over 60,000 families, Shahdara is one of the most densely populated districts of Delhi, also one of the most polluted
Updated on Jan 12, 2018 10:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Malavika Vyawahare and Anonna Dutt
K Sivan appointed ISRO chairperson, to replace AS Kiran Kumar
K Sivan, currently the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Kerala, has been appointed chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Updated on Jan 10, 2018 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
ISRO’s village-level vegetation data to help farmers get crop insurance pay offs
For farmers, proving that there has been 40% crop damage has so far been a tedious process which often delayed the insurance pay offs.
Updated on Jan 10, 2018 01:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Dangerous experiments: Six in 10 people who try smoking become daily smokers
The research highlights the need for preventing first time experimentation by youngsters.
Updated on Jan 10, 2018 12:15 PM IST
Malavika Vyawahare, Delhi
Bengaluru start-up’s moonshot mission in jeopardy after ISRO cancels contract
The Moonshot mission is part of Google Lunar X challenge aimed at placing a rover on the moon’s surface and taking HD images.
Updated on Jan 09, 2018 02:36 PM IST
Northwesterly wind clears fog, but chill to persist in north India
It was clear weather over much of the north Indian plains on Monday after fog had engulfed the region over the past week.
Updated on Jan 08, 2018 08:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Videotape bull races, say animal welfare board’s new guidelines
The guidelines are not mandatory but not following them can be construed as animal abuse and be punishable under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PCA) Act.
Updated on Jan 06, 2018 10:12 PM IST
Why Punjab, Haryana are blanketed in fog while Delhi is clear
Visibility dropped to less than 50 metres in parts of Punjab and Haryana last week, disrupting air, rail and road traffic. A spell of fog that enveloped the national capital around New Year’s faded and is likely to dissipate further next week, bringing down pollution levels.
Updated on Jan 06, 2018 10:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare, New Delhi
Mission on pollution-free firecrackers launched
Launching the mission, science and technology and environment minister Harsh Vardhan said the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is “uniquely positioned” to come up with a solution.
Updated on Jan 06, 2018 09:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare, New Delhi
ISRO earned almost Rs 300 crore from foreign satellite launches in 2016-17
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) earned Rs 288.75 crore by launching satellites for other countries in the last financial year
Updated on Jan 05, 2018 02:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Low-oxygen zones in oceans expanding, including off India’s coast
Open oceans have lost 2% of their oxygen in the second half of the 20th century. Oxygen-minimum zones in the open oceans have expanded by the size of the European Union (4.5 million sqkm).
Updated on Jan 06, 2018 07:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare, New Delhi
Bomb cyclone: Parts of US may get colder than Mars in coming days
The phenomenon, caused by the collision of hot and cold currents, has brought rare snow to southern US, including parts of Florida. The country is already reeling under a spell of extremely cold weather with the incursion of chilly arctic winds this winter.
Updated on Jan 04, 2018 03:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Environment ministry misses SC deadline to notify industrial norms for oxides
The ministry told the court in October that norms for SOx and NOx for nine industries had already been notified.
Published on Jan 02, 2018 10:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Kaziranga lost 31 rhinos as 361 animals drown in 2017 floods
The death toll of rhinos is the highest for three years. But these deaths are from drowning in floodwaters, not from poachers’ bullets or poison.
Updated on Jan 01, 2018 08:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Rs 100-crore project to tackle crop burning gets green ministry nod
A release from the environment ministry blamed growing mechanisation, declining livestock and lack of a feasible alternative in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan for the growing problem of crop burning.
Updated on Dec 28, 2017 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Nitrogen oxides an emerging air pollution threat: Experts
NOx leads to the formation of secondary particulate pollution and cannot be filtered by air purifiers.
Published on Dec 27, 2017 11:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Malavika Vyawahare
Centre releases draft action plan to tackle air pollution in Delhi
The plan includes managing crop stubble and ensuring independent and real-time generation of data on crop burning.
Updated on Dec 27, 2017 02:00 PM IST
New Delhi, Hindustan Times | Malavika Vyawahare