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.
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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…
03 Mar 2021 | Mahesh Sankaran, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Uma Ramakrishnan
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…
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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03 Mar 2021 |
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…
03 Mar 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…
03 Mar 2021 | Akshay Dinesh, Varnita Mathur, B. R. Ansil, Vijay Chandru, Ravi Chellam, Abi T. Vanak, Uma Ramakrishnan and Prabhakar Rajagopal
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Health Heatmap of India is an open data platform built for bringing together data from diverse sources and facilitating visualization, analysis, and insight building…
03 Mar 2021 | Nitin Pandit and Abi T. Vanak
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Scientists all over the world are moving toward building database systems based on the One Health concept to prevent and manage outbreaks of zoonotic diseases. An…
03 Mar 2021 | Mridula Mary Paul, Niti B Jadeja, Nadisha Sidhu and Abi T. Vanak
Whither One Health in India? Challenges to Adopting Global Strategies for Tackling Zoonotic Diseases
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The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply brought into focus how intrusions into natural landscapes are not just environmental concerns, but are also intricately entangled with…
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…
