How India’s Unguided Quest for Solar Energy is Bringing About Ecological and Cultural Erasure

M.D. Madhusudan, Abi T. Vanak The Hindu | January 1, 2022 At the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, India proclaimed on the global stage that by 2030, it would elevate its renewable power capacity to 500 GW from 150 GW today, and that it would meet 50% of its energy requirements from renewable energy. Even […]
Testing the efficacy of hyperspectral (AVIRIS-NG), multispectral (Sentinel-2) and radar (Sentinel-1) remote sensing images to detect native and invasive non-native trees

M. Arasumani, Aditya Singh, Milind Bunyan & V. V. Robin Biological Invasions | April 27, 2021 Invasive alien species threaten tropical grasslands and native biodiversity across the globe, including in the natural mosaic of native grasslands and forests in the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats. Here, grasslands have been lost to exotic tree […]