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The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and worsens gender inequality – posing specific risks to the ways of life, livelihoods, health, safety and security for all women and girls around the world. As more data and research reveal the connections between gender, social equity and climate change, it’s time to talk about how climate change impacts women and girls, why gender equality is key to global climate action, and how we must support solutions for women, by women. How does climate change impact women and girls ? The climate crisis is not “gender neutral”. Women and girls bear the brunt of its impacts, which amplify existing gender inequalities and pose unique threats to their livelihoods, health and safety.   Feminist climate justice brings a gender lens to the fight against climate change, acknowledging how the drivers of the climate crisis are also the drivers of gend...

 EK Janaki Ammal, a scientist who was born in the southern Indian state of Kerala in the 19th Century. Don't know when will acknowledge our nation pride and when it comes to woman, lips mum and pen stops.  Turning up the unfolded turns of history, there was a woman who blossomed like flowers and spreaded fragrances around the world. In a career spanning almost 60 years, Janaki studied a wide range of flowering plants and reworked the scientific classification of several families of plants. Janaki Ammal (1897- 1984) is remembered in India for her career at the Sugar Breeding Centre (Coimbatore), where she worked on creating sugarcane hybrids with higher sucrose content. She is best known for having co-authored the ‘Chromosomal Atlas of Plants’ with Cyril Dean Darlington at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, which has become an important source for cytological work on the economic plants of the world. On her return to India in 1948, she became the first director of the Cent...