Deploying ducks: Climate-friendly rice farming empowers women

Deploying ducks: Climate-friendly rice farming empowers women

The ducks eat up the harmful pests and weeds from our fields. Their droppings make the soil fertile. This saves us from using chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides and their escalating costs says Basak Sisters.
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Inspired local governance transforms villages in Odanthurai

Inspired local governance transforms villages in Odanthurai

The Odanthurai village council in southern Tamil Nadu has shown how a Panchayati Raj institution can achieve holistic rural development with the help of wise leadership and community participation.
Native cattle breeds better suited to climate resilience

Native cattle breeds better suited to climate resilience

As global warming becomes increasingly evident across India, the conservation of indigenous cattle breeds that are hardy and better suited to withstand high temperatures has been gaining ground.
Protecting Pichavaram mangroves in coastal Tamil Nadu

Protecting Pichavaram mangroves in coastal Tamil Nadu

A systematic and long-term collection of local data is expected to aid adaptation to sea level rise in the Pichavaram mangrove forest on India’s east coast that will also help in conserving and expanding it.
Inspectis Launch Game Changing 4K Ultra HD Digital Microscope - Electronics Maker

Inspectis Launch Game Changing 4K Ultra HD Digital Microscope - Electronics Maker

Advanced U30/U30s Raises Video Inspection to New Levels. Inspectis announces a new generation of the U30 series digital microscopes. The latest versions offer more than twice the magnification (x168 with +10 macro lens) of the current U10 series raising video inspection to new levels.
DuckDuckGo gets $10M from Omers for global privacy push

DuckDuckGo gets $10M from Omers for global privacy push

Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo, which offers an alternative to surveillance engines like Google, has quietly picked up $10M in fresh funding from Canadian pension fund Omers’ VC arm.
LEGO built a life size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces

LEGO built a life size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces

In what just might be the wildest thing anyone has ever built from LEGO, the company behind the bricks has built a full-size, drive-able model of the Bugatti Chiron supercar. Seriously. The model’s final piece count clocks in at over one million Technic pieces.

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