Agantuk's Desk – Explore, Implore, Reverberate
Explore, Implore and Reverberate
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Category: Environment & Health
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“You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes…” Greta Thunberg In the 21st century, climate change will be the primary cause of the disruption of human lives and all other forms of life on our planet. At a time when children…
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In the sinking mangrove land of the Sunderban, families get displaced and disrupted when cyclones take away the men’s livelihood. But schoolteacher Dipalika Banerjee and her friends have found ways to rebuild them by training women to use their in-built sewing skills for livelihoods.
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October 10 is regarded as the World Mental Health Day. On this day, the world comes together to speak about mental health issues. This year with a pandemic raging all over the world it has become all more essential to address mental health issues. The pandemic has pushed millions into depression, anxiety, and other mental…
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Thinking of Multivitamin Supplements to better your health but not sure about it, are you? Well, the jury is still out on multivitamins. While some doctors upheld the health benefits of multivitamins others simply aren’t convinced. A new study from Harvard juxtaposes these contradictory pieces of evidence and perceptions and advises judicious use of multivitamins…
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“Nature is NOT a place to visit. It is HOME.” – Gary Snyder, American Poet, Environmental Activist Every year on July 28, the UN celebrates World Nature Conservation Day to stress the necessity of conserving nature and preventing the exploitation of natural resources on air, soil, and water. This year’s World Nature Conservation Day theme…
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Bleeding disorders and Bleeding problems has been troubling people from ancient time but it took one event involving a royal family to get to the details of the Royal Disease, Haemophilia. In 1905, the then Czar of Russia, Nicholas had a son who was suffering from a bleeding disorder. The young man was being treated…
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The key ingredient of this is to replace every non-environment-friendly thing in our life with eco-friendly sustainable alternatives. This would reduce the carbon emission potential of everything in our life, thereby making way for sustainable living.
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What’s raging these days apart from the pandemic? It’s a cyclone. Surely you have heard about raging cyclones all over the world. Within 2 week, 2 different parts of India experienced cyclones. Mumbai and Kolkata were devastated in the month of May and even after a month the situation has not improved much. Meanwhile countries…
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Sea levels are rising for many years now, jeopardizing the livelihoods and lives of many indigenous communities, especially those living in the marginal areas. An estimate shows that globally, sea levels have risen by 16-21cm between 1900-2016. Our earth has three fourth of water and one-fourth of land and of these three fourth of water…
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With the advent of 2020, a new global health crisis has broken all over the world. Again a virus is wreaking havoc in people’s lives. Yes, we are talking about the novel Coronavirus which has virtually shut down China and put the whole world at risk. With the disease reaching as far as the…
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