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ARCHIVE Fluoride Water Testing Can Save India From Crippling Bone Disease, reports PRIYANKA TOMAR.   With drinking water in 14,132 habitations in 19 States still containing fluoride above the permissible levels, a huge population in the country is at risk of serious health conditions such as skeletal fluorosis, as per the data of Health Ministry. Data collated by the ministry earlier reveals that Rajasthan has the highest number of such habitations (7,670), affecting 48, 84,613 people. Telangana has 1,174 such districts with 19, 22,783 affected people. Karnataka has 1,122 such districts and Madhya Pradesh 1,055. Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Odisha, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh too face the problem. The World Health Organization guideline value for fluoride is

ARCHIVE Twenty-five years after global scientists issued a “warning to humanity” about dangers to the environment, a new update released last month says most of the planet’s problems are getting “far worse.” In 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more than 1700 independent scientists, including the majority of living Nobel laureates in the sciences, penned the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity” They issued a grim “warning to humanity.” Within, they explained that human activities were doing serious, irreversible damage on the planet that, if left unchecked would eventually make the planet uninhabitable. The scientists then listed all of the ways that the Earth was suffering on account of humanity, from ozone depletion to exploitation of water supplies to