A few days back, I visited a market in my neighborhood. The entire process of shopping should have taken hardly twenty minutes. Still, I ended up being stuck for twenty minutes in the traffic jam, waiting, like many others, for my turn to get to the next available parking slot. […]
Climate Change: The biggest threat facing humanity Human beings are exposed to health risks (disease) depending upon inherent factors (e.g., age, gender, and race), lifestyle or behavioural factors (e.g., excess weight, physical inactivity, or tobacco use), and environmental factors (e.g., exposure to air pollution). The environment is a significant determinant […]
Climate Change is a lived reality now. There is no doubt that human activities are changing the climate with clear consequences on the weather. Recent years have witnessed several weather extremes worldwide, and global warming exacerbates these extremes. The number of climate, weather, and water-related disasters has increased almost five-fold in […]
