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…
10 Feb 2021 | Abi T. Vanak and Mridula Mary Paul
As India goes into emergency mode to tackle the potentially catastrophic impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the ‘Kerala model’ is being widely cited as an example to…
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.…
10 Feb 2021 | Mridula Mary Paul and Abi T. Vanak
Every crisis needs a good scapegoat. In the case of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, we seem to have found multiple ones.
We linked this pandemic to various…
