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Audio podcast: ‘Carbon capture technology can help India balance emissions’

by admin|12 January 202212 January 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 12, 2022 Air pollution in India is so bad that it could be reducing life expectancy of millions by up to nine years. One of the solutions could be carbon capture, utilisation and storage technology as a...

Audio podcast: Record number of tiger deaths in 2021

by admin|08 January 202208 January 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 9, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. One hundred and twenty six tigers died in India in 2021, the most since the National Tiger Conservation Authority, or NTCA, began...

Audio podcast: India is drowning in solid waste

by admin|15 September 202115 September 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer September 15, 2021 India’s burgeoning urban population has resulted in a stark increase in the quantity of solid waste generated – 65 million tons a year – but only 75%-80% of it gets collected and only 22%-28% is...

Audio podcast: How your consumption choices can help save the planet

by admin|14 July 202114 July 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer July 14, 2021 While consumption drives the economy, it has a destructive impact on the environment. India’s aggressive economic focus over the past few decades has been accompanied by alarming ecological destruction. How does what you consume impact...

Audio podcast: Man-environment conflict in India on the rise

by admin|05 January 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 6, 2021 As human populations expand, there is pressure on natural habitats. They are looked upon as sources of natural resources that can fuel economic growth and help national missions like poverty reduction. As natural habitats shrink...

Audio podcast: Menstrual hygiene, health and the environment

by admin|02 December 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer December 2, 2020 India faces a dilemma. Its girls collectively miss an estimated 80 million months of school every year because of the lack of menstrual hygiene facilities. At the same time, sanitary napkins are swamping our...

Audio podcast: Why Goa is up in arms against coal

by admin|11 November 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 11, 2020 The government has initiated a series of infrastructure projects – from port dredging to rail track doubling – as it pushes to make Goa a coal hub. Goans say it will destroy forests, fishing,...

What we destroy in the name of development

by admin|13 September 202013 September 2020|All Indians Matter

Tushar Gandhi September 15, 2020 The hymn Take thou a lesson from the trees is worth laying to one’s heart. The trees bear the fierce heat of the sun and yet provide cool shade to us. But what do we...

Audio podcast: For ‘aatmanirbharta’, a forest under siege

by admin|20 August 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Podcast transcript Hello and welcome. What lies above the ground in a forest are trees, wildlife and an ecology vital to indigenous communities and their age-old culture. While they have seamlessly become part of this ecosystem, what lies below is...

Video podcast: India’s natural treasures are under siege – from the government

by admin|10 June 202010 June 2020|All Indians Matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7yF2KSlhk By Ashraf Engineer June 11, 2020 VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Hello and welcome to the latest podcast on All Indians Matter. Under the cover of the COVID-19 outbreak, India’s forests and wildlife are under siege – most of all from...