COMMITTEE ON DEVELOPING A BOOKLET ON BIODIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC AND POLICY MAKERS
Kamaljit S Bawa Biodiversity at Risk: Today’s Choices Matter| National Academies of Sciences| Front Matter
Satellite and on-the-Ground Data Help Monitor Groundwater in India
EOS | February 16, 2022 Climate change and increasing water demand are putting stress on water resources in India. The agricultural sector is particularly stressed, as 40% of agricultural villages have already overused groundwater. Scientists estimate that by 2050, agricultural productivity will decrease by 68% in groundwater-depleted areas.
Rare bird, forest protectors clash with India’s clean energy vision
Thomson Reuters Foundation | February 14, 2022
FEATURE-Rare bird, forest protectors clash with India’s clean energy vision
Devdiscourse | February 14, 2022 That was the case for residents of Sangnara village in Gujarat, who last August protested to save a nearby forest the government had leased to four companies for a planned wind farm with 40 turbines. After watching six turbines go up, the villagers, whose families have protected the forest for […]
India falsely claims forestry progress in ‘skewed’ report, experts warn
Climate Home News | February 14, 2022 The Indian government is using flawed forest data to falsely claim that it is making progress towards its climate goals and curbing deforestation, experts have warned.
Status of important coastal habitats of North Tamil Nadu: Diversity, current threats and approaches for conservation
Vikas Madhav Nagarajan, M. Yuvan, Rohith Srinivasan, Nanditha Ram Satagopan, Aswathi Asokan, Anooja A Regional Studies in Marine Science | Volume 49 Coasts are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to the effects of climate change and the impacts of strong weather events. At the same time, they are also crucial buffers of these phenomena around the world. […]
Research needs to leave the ivory tower of academia
Dr. Veena Srinivaasan The Times of India | February 10, 2022 For sustainability science to offer relevant solutions, research models must move closer to practice and address questions that emerge from the community, instead of academia alone.
Beyond income: correlates of conspicuous and luxury consumption in India
Soumyajit Bhar , Sharachchandra Lele, and Narasimha D. Rao Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy | January 10, 2022 Concern about the environmental impacts of consumption has drawn research attention to the drivers of conspicuous and luxury (C/L) consumption. Given the prevailing patterns of overconsumption, most studies to date have focused on countries in the global North. However, an emerging high-consuming middle […]
First description of the metopiine genus Trieces Townes, 1946 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Indomalayan region with three new species from India
A.P. Ranjith, Dharma Rajan Priyadarsanan European Journal of Taxonomy | February 10, 2022
New gecko species discovered in Western Ghats at Attappadi
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