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Akshat Rathi

A new book shows how innovators like Bill Gates are making green energy possible and profitable

An excerpt from ‘Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions’, by Akshat Rathi.

Akshat Rathi
· Oct 20, 2023 · 01:30 pm
Climate change is wreaking havoc in the world’s largest tea-growing area

Over the past 100 years, the average temperature has risen by 1.3 degrees Celsius in Assam and the annual rainfall has dropped by 7.87 inches.

Akshat Rathi
· Jun 16, 2015 · 09:30 pm
Here’s what happens to your body in a heat wave

Those most vulnerable are children and the elderly.

Akshat Rathi
· Jun 02, 2015 · 02:30 pm

After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

Welcome, Goldberg polyhedra.

Akshat Rathi
· Nov 03, 2014 · 08:30 pm
Forget the God Particle, India's quest for a particle accelerator seems stalled

Science in India is suffering from a lack of funding, but perhaps more crucially, from a lack of leadership.

Akshat Rathi
· Jul 10, 2014 · 06:56 am
A new explanation for the mysterious child mortality puzzle among Muslims: open defecation

Another study demonstrates that toilets are necessary not just to protect privacy and dignity. They actually contribute to making people healthier.

Akshat Rathi
· May 31, 2014 · 08:15 am

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Akshat Rathi

A new book shows how innovators like Bill Gates are making green energy possible and profitable

An excerpt from ‘Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions’, by Akshat Rathi.

Akshat Rathi · Oct 20, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Climate change is wreaking havoc in the world’s largest tea-growing area

Over the past 100 years, the average temperature has risen by 1.3 degrees Celsius in Assam and the annual rainfall has dropped by 7.87 inches.

Akshat Rathi · Jun 16, 2015 · 09:30 pm

Here’s what happens to your body in a heat wave

Those most vulnerable are children and the elderly.

Akshat Rathi · Jun 02, 2015 · 02:30 pm

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· May 31, 2014 · 08:15 am