Meet Babul Ali, the differently-abled farmer from Assam who turned a plastic chair into a symbol of grit and resilience

Photo: @pepa.assam/ Instagram As people approach their old age, they look forward to their children for support, care and nurturing, but some others simply decide to forge their own path forward, no matter how difficult the road seems.It’s easy to talk about resilience in that context, but much harder to actually watch someone practice it…

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Intimate partner violence will soon have tougher penalties under new law

Canada’s Criminal Code will soon have tougher penalties for intimate partner violence, particularly in cases of murder, after a Conservative bill became law Wednesday. The private member’s bill essentially leapfrogged the Liberal government’s own bill that would criminalize femicide and other forms of intimate partner violence and coercive control, and includes many of the same…

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Report claims Coalition’s renewable ‘buffer zone’ puts projects at risk

New economic analysis claims the Victorian Coalition’s plan to implement a mandatory two-kilometre buffer zone between renewable energy projects and dwellings risks billions of dollars’ worth of projects, costing jobs and taking millions of dollars from local councils. The ABC has spoken to renewable energy experts who have mixed views on what the full impact…

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In May 1962, the borough of Centralia burned trash to clean up a local landfill before Memorial Day, but the fire spread into abandoned coal mines beneath the town: More than 60 years later, it’s still burning

Smoke in Centralia | Wikimedia Commons What began as a routine pre-Memorial Day cleanup became one of America’s longest-running environmental disasters. In May 1962, officials in the small Pennsylvania town of Centralia ignited a landfill in an abandoned strip-mining pit to reduce accumulated trash, a common practice at the time. Instead of burning out, the…

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