On World Environment Day, we often plant trees, make posters, deliver speeches and take pledges to protect nature. But from the towns and cities of Jharkhand, an uncomfortable question arises: can the environment be protected only by planting trees, while our urban areas push hundreds of tonnes of waste every day into land, water and air without scientific management? The name Jharkhand immediately brings to mind forests, hills, waterfalls, rivers and mineral wealth. Yet the

10 Curated news items from major branches of science & technology 1. Sunlight used to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel Verified source and publication date: Adelaide University, published via ScienceDaily on May 4, 2026. Researchers reported a solar-driven method that uses sunlight to convert plastic waste into clean fuels such as hydrogen. The importance of the work lies in linking two large global problems in one experimental pathway: plastic pollution and the ne

Chapter 1: The Forest When the first light entered the Lachhuar forest, it arrived like a timid blessing, touching every single leaf to give the dark branches their own green bodies. This is no ordinary forest; it is a cosmic pilgrimage that transcends the boundaries of space and time. On this dying planet, only two pilgrims, Mira and Rehan, had slept on the ground, and they rose from the soil with such humility as though they understood that no palace had ever invented t