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A farmer harvests rice crop in a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Experts are warning that rice production across South and Southeast Asia is likely to suffer with the world heading into an El Nino. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

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Rice crops are being threatened by El Nino after grain supplies were disrupted by the war in Ukraine
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press
Wed,07/12/23-10:35PM , 230 Reads
NEW DELHI (AP) — Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine.
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Sickle cell patient Poonam Gond, 19, walks out of her house in Haripur village in Ambikapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India, Monday, March 20, 2023. Gond has crippling pain as a result of poor access to treatment for her disease. Health inequities aren't unique to India, but the sheer scale of its population means that fragile systems are severely stretched. For the poor, this can have devastating consequences. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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India's stretched health care fails millions in rural areas
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - AP Science Writer
Thu,04/13/23-11:01PM , 146 Reads
SURGUJA, India (AP) — Poonam Gond is learning to describe her pain by numbers.

Zero means no pain and 10 is agony. Gond was at seven late last month. “I have never known zero pain,” she said, sitting in the plastic chair where she spends most of her days.
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Jerifa Islam stands outside her home in a poor neighborhood in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. A flood in 2019 in the Darrang district of India's Assam state started Jerifa Islam, her brother Raju and their parents on a journey that led the family from their Himalayan village to the poor neighborhood. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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Climate Migration: Indian kids find hope in a new language
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - AP Science Writer
Wed,09/21/22-10:01PM , 425 Reads
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Eight-year-old Jerifa Islam only remembers the river being angry, its waters gnawing away her family's farmland and waves lashing their home during rainy season flooding. Then one day in July of 2019, the mighty Brahmaputra River swallowed everything.
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Workers of a helmet store paste degradable plastic substitute material on a glass in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 30, 2022. India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as a part of a longer federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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Cups, straws, spoons: India starts on single-use plastic ban
By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - AP Science Writer
Fri,07/01/22-1:04AM , 139 Reads
NEW DELHI (AP) — India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.
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