The Black Swan of the Century: Birthing Covid-19

Asutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, in a fresh new take, shares his views about risk taking in science with the editor G’nY.
The resemblance to their domestic seers has placed them at the fag end of everyone’s interest and this perpetual neglect, has in turn, pushed the entire species to the edge of extinction.
<p>In the age of rapid globalization, associated/subsequent international, interstate and intrastate migrations and increased economic cooperation between global communities, the chances of an infecti...
<p>Green, brown and red seaweeds scattered on the beach is a normal occurrence in many coastal regions. The volume of beached seaweed biomass started to increase along the shores of industrialised nat...
<p>The coronavirus pandemic has been an unexpected boon for global air pollution levels. As most countries and major metropolitan areas are under lockdown to contain the spread of Covid 19, the halt h...
<p>The city of Wuhan, the sprawling capital of Hubei province in Central China, is now infamous as the epicentre of the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus disease--Covid-19. What was reported in the i...
<p>In the age of rapid globalization, associated/subsequent international, interstate and intrastate migrations and increased economic cooperation between global communities, the chances of an infectious disease spreading from one country to another are quicker. From Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that broke out in 2002 to the present-day ongoing pandemic Covid-19, there are many reasons...
<p>Green, brown and red seaweeds scattered on the beach is a normal occurrence in many coastal regions. The volume of beached seaweed biomass started to increase along the shores of industrialised nations in the 1970s and had become a major nuisance by the 1990s, when mass beaching of macroalgae started to be known as green […]</p>
<p>The coronavirus pandemic has been an unexpected boon for global air pollution levels. As most countries and major metropolitan areas are under lockdown to contain the spread of Covid 19, the halt has resulted in a considerable drop in pollution indexes in Paris, London, Milan and most importantly Delhi. This has exposed the scale of pollution caused by human activities alone.</p>