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Rice millers in Kangayam fear that the retail price of rice may touch ₹100 a kg by the end of January, 2027. Non-availability of paddy and continuous increase in paddy prices are a matter of concern to the millers, said Palaniswamy, president of the Kangayam Rice Millers Association. The retail price of rice is approximately…
In supreme irony, over 600 million people around the world experienced hunger in 2025. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) It produces five times the greenhouse gas emissions than does the aviation…
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A small tea grower using a leaf cutting machine near Kotagiri, Nilgiris. | Photo Credit: The Hindu India’s tea production declined 1.7% year-on-year (YoY) to 658.3 million kg during January-July this year, according to data shared by the United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI). While the country’s tea output in 2025 had grown 7.1%…
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This year’s powerful El Niño and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday (September 23, 2026). The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate…
Chinese experts have pointed to a clear link between rising temperatures, which have led to significant glacial retreat on the Tibetan Plateau, and the deadly August 26 glacial collapse on the Nepal-China border, warning of growing risks from more glacial flood outbursts, with more than 14,000 glacial lakes mapped on the plateau. | Photo Credit:…
ISMA Director General Deepak Ballani addresses a press conference on the recent surge in domestic sugar prices, in New Delhi on August 24. | Photo Credit: ANI With the government’s announcement last week permitting import of 10 lakh tonnes of raw sugar, the domestic prices are cooling down. However, volatility in domestic sugar prices continues…
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The stage is set as it has been for years, with music, colourful costumes, and dramatic dialogue. However, there are no demons to slay or kingdoms to defend. Instead, the story unfolds around an invisible enemy that people from across Tamil Nadu know all too well: blistering heat. It is an unlikely story for Kattaikoothu,…
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A minute is always 60 seconds. But it rarely feels that way for Kavitha, 40, selling fish under an unforgiving sun. By seven each morning, she has to arrange the day’s catch neatly on a small table at Chennai’s bustling Nochikuppam fish market, one of the city’s fishing hamlets tucked between the Marina Loop Road…
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The United Nations weather agency forecast a moderate or possibly strong El Nino that could drive up global temperatures and increase the risk of extreme weather in 2026. Experts said the El Nino, a natural warming cycle, should further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution and will likely turbocharge extreme weather across…
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A cyclist stops to fill his bottle at a water fountain on the Vistula River boulevards, amid a heatwave in Warsaw, Poland, on June 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The World Health Organization said on Sunday (June 28, 2026) that over 1,300 excess deaths had been recorded in Europe since June 21 in connection…
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