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18 Mar 2021 | Jagdish Krishnaswamy
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…
08 Apr 2021 | Aditya, V., Sumashini P. S, Aravind N. A, Ravikanth G, Chandrashekara K and Uma Shaanker R, 2020. Reconciling biodiversity conservation with agricultural intensification: challenges and opportunities for India. Current Science 118 (12): 1870-1873
The challenges posed by the skyrocketing population to India’s food security, already under strain from land shortages and the agricultural crisis, are enormous. Climate change…
08 Apr 2021 | Aditya, V., Sumashini P. S, Aravind N. A, Ravikanth G, Chandrashekara K and Uma Shaanker R,.
The challenges posed by the skyrocketing population to India’s food security, already under strain from land shortages and the agricultural crisis, are enormous. Climate change…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya., Sumashini P. S, Aravind N. A, Ravikanth G, Chandrashekara K, and R. Uma Shaanker
The challenges posed by the skyrocketing population to India’s food security, already under strain from land shortages and the agricultural crisis, are enormous. Climate change…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya and Ravikanth G
According to some estimates, up to 17% of India’s landmass is classified as being covered with grasslands. The grasslands of India form a savanna – semi-arid grassland system that…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya and Ravikanth G
Members of the Koya tribe inhabiting the foothills of the northern Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh are worried. Their lives have been in disarray since India’s nationwide lockdown…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya, Aravind N.A, and Sumashini P.S.
Bats evoke awe and aversion in equal measure from humans. They are the only mammals capable of true flight and have a unique sonar-based echolocation mechanism to capture prey at…
08 Apr 2021 | Vikram Aditya
India’s forest-dwelling communities have since antiquity utilised various biodiversity elements in forests to augment their livelihoods and fortify their nutritional security.…
03 Mar 2021 | Kamaljit Bawa, Nandan Nawn,Ravi Chellam, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Vinod Mathur
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
03 Mar 2021 |
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…