![]() ![]() While investigating these five environmental challenges, Subramanian discovers the stories that renew hope for a nation with the potential to lead India and the planet into a sustainable and prosperous future. The Red River is running dry due to a number of factors, including climate change and overuse of the river’s water resources. The culprit is the climate crisis, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS. For India, it is the very real present. In A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, a lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and microenterprises determined to revive India's ravaged natural world: an engineer-turned-farmer brings organic food to Indian plates villagers resuscitate a river run dry cook stove designers persist on the quest for a smokeless fire biologists bring vultures back from the brink of extinction and in Bihar, one of India's most impoverished states, a bold young woman teaches adolescents the fundamentals of sexual health. In new research, scientists found at least 51 percent of all rivers worldwide stop running for at least one day per year. For the first decade of the 2000s, the Missouri River, the nation’s longest river, was drier than it’s been in more than 1,200 years. ![]() Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. ![]()
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