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The site of a destroyed hydroelectric power station after a flash flood in Uttarakhand. | Anshree Fadnavis / Reuters
18 Mar 2021 | Jagdish Krishnaswamy
Uttarakhand floods highlight the need to factor in the environment while planning development
The recent landslide in February on a glacier in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli and subsequent floods and toll of human life and property has drawn our attention once again to the irony…
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: Understanding, Restoring & Conserving Biodiversity to Ensure our Future
Biodiversity Collaborative / Biodiversity Collaborative
2020
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India and other nations need new frameworks that integrate science with policies to enhance human well-being, restore and conserve nature, and build capacity.
03 Mar 2021 | Kamaljit Bawa, Nandan Nawn,Ravi Chellam, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Vinod Mathur
Envisioning a biodiversity science for sustaining human well-being
India and other nations need new frameworks that integrate science with policies to enhance human well-being, restore and conserve nature, and build capacity. Read Article
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03 Mar 2021 |
Nature in freefall as world misses 2020 biodiversity goals
The planet is losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate, posing grave danger to human health and prosperity, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity warned in its flagship…
03 Mar 2021 | Mahesh Sankaran, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Uma Ramakrishnan
Bats in the belfry: friends or foes?
Bats are the only mammal capable of sustained flight. They are a very species rich group, with over 1200 species worldwide2, and more species being discovered every year. After…
Missing the Forest for the Trees - Pandemics, biodiversity and the circle of life.
Bangalore Sustainability Forum / Bangalore International Centre
2020
Bangalore’s eminent biologists and environmental scholars, Satyajit Mayor, Mahesh Sankaran, Uma Ramakrishnan and Harini Nagendra join the dots on coronavirus, biodiversity and forests loss.
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Sarus cranes in Delhi’s Najafgarh wetland [Image by Neha Sinha]
03 Mar 2021 |
Crucial to bird migration, India's wetlands are under threat
Wetlands in Delhi and Haryana, home to hundreds of species of birds, face serious threats from pollution and encroachment; official recognition could be an important step towards…
National Mission on Biodiversity & Human Well-Being: Enhancing Biodiversity, Augmenting Human Well-being
Biodiversity Collaborative / Biodiversity Collaborative
2020
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Darwin’s orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale) is one of thousands of night-flowering plants pollinated by moths. In this case, only one pollinator can accomplish the task—Xanthopan morganii. Senckenberg Collection / Photo: sammlungsfotografen.de
31 Jan 2022 | Kamal Bawa
The Intertwined Attractions of Plants, Moths, and People
Arnoldia, 78(5) -  It was a warm and humid night in September of 2003. In a tropical forest by the coast of Madagascar, Phil Devries, an entomologist and noted nature…
How the introduction of African cheetahs to Kuno National Park could endanger the Asiatic lion, which is earmarked for translocation to those forests
31 Jan 2022 | Ravi Chellam
Why the Asiatic lion and the African cheetah could be pitted against each other in Kuno National Park
The Hindu -  For centuries, four charismatic big cats co-existed in India. This is the story of two felines that are now, probably inadvertently, pitted against each other: the…

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