Feature Article

The origins of our best drug against malaria have long been a mystery. Meet Tu Youyou, who scoured ancient Chinese medical texts for the cure.

Unsafe injections kill 1.3 million people a year, says former "spoilt brat" Marc Koska, who is on a mission to stop syringe reuse.

When extreme weather strikes, somebody, somewhere always asks about a link to climate change. It's time we gave straight answers.

Giant ribbons of moisture around the globe are behind many floods, and their effects could be amplified by climate change

A claim that global warming caused the 2010 Russian heatwave could bring closer the day when climate victims can sue oil firms.

There's a way to curb carbon emissions without having to wait for governments to forge a global climate deal. (Editorial)

Why has the Anna Hazare movement against corruption steered clear of people’s movements, and why have the latter behaved likewise towards the Hazare agitation? Manoranjan Mohanty (“People’s Movements and the Anna Upsurge”, EPW, 17 September 2011) is despondent about this gap between the two. The reasons are obvious and are to be found in the very observations Mohanty makes.

A critique of the 2009 report of the expert group on poverty.

How large is the workforce that resides in rural areas and commutes to urban areas and vice versa? This note examines this unnoticed issue and compares different aspects of the share of commuting workers in rural and urban workforce based on two National Sample Survey rounds in 2004-05 and 2009-10.