Avani Vaidya

Sri City: We don’t talk about cows, not in climate meetings, not in headlines, and certainly not at dinner. When it comes to climate change, we’ll debate pipelines and power plants, but whisper about cows and livestock, never. To understand “why we don’t talk about cows” it is first important to ask “why we should”. Cows and other farm animals produce a substantial amount of methane from their digestive process. Methane gas (CH4) from livestock is 86 times more destructive than Carbon...

-Avani Vaidya With the beginning of the new academic year, college gates are once again lined with freshers, sophomores, and seniors; especially freshers dragging in three or four heavy cardboard boxes packed with everything deemed “essential” for campus life. Bedsheets, organizers, utensils, an InstaCuppa, and of course, we can’t forget the cool posters, fairy lights, and a stack of board games like UNO Flip, Monopoly, or Cards Against Humanity, because game nights are a campus essential too...

A four-lane 13km long highway is being built through a protected area of the Amazon rainforest in preparation for the 30th annual...