Value articulation in environmental appraisal: which values, whose values, and how valued?
Sharachchandra Lele Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | August 2023 Large infrastructure projects, such as ports, dams, highways, and mines, cause major negative environmental impacts, most felt by local communities but affecting other stakeholders as well. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and associated Social Impact Assessment (SIA) are tools that together constitute the core of the concept of […]
Can 3d-printed Tiger Teeth Help Save Our Rarest Animals From Extinction?
The Guardian
Red Panda: Firefox of the Eastern Himalayas
RoundGlass Sustain
Ravi Chellam Writes: Why Protecting India’s Forests Should Be a Part of National Security
Ravi Chellam Indian Express | July 28, 2023 At least from the early 1970s, there has been a growing realisation of both the environmental damage that humans are collectively causing and the impact this is having on our lives. For example, extensive wildfires, prolonged and intense heat waves, extreme rainfall events, powerful and more frequent […]
Encounters With the Red Panda, the Elusive Bear‑cat of the Himalayas
RoundGlass Sustain
Direct and Indirect Effects of Urbanization, Pesticides and Wild Insect Pollinators on Mango Yield
Gabriel Marcacci, Soubadra Devy, Arne Wenzel, Vikas S. Rao, Shabarish Kumar S., Nils Nölke, Vasuki V. Belavadi, Teja Tscharntke, Ingo Grass, Catrin Westphal Journal of Applied Ecology | July 24, 2023 Expanding cities increasingly encroach fertile farmlands, questioning the viability of maintaining agriculture within and around them. Yet, our knowledge on how urbanization influences pollinator communities and the provision of pollination services to crops is […]
Bengaluru Buzz: BBMP Takes Steps to Raise Revenue
Citizen Matter
A new genus in the braconid subfamily Miracinae from the Oriental region, with descriptions of seven new species from India and Sri Lanka
A.P. Ranjith, Cornelis Van Achterberg, Dharma Rajan Priyadarsanan Zootaxa | July 21, 2023 A new genus in the braconid subfamily Miracinae is described from the Oriental region including a new species from south India. Additionally, six new species of the genus Centistidea Rohwer is described from India and Sri Lanka. Taxonomic keys to separate the new genus […]
Restoring Grassland Common in Maharashtra
Anuja Malhotra and Abi Tamim Vanak Nature in Focus | July 20, 2023 International calls for land restoration, such as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, have created a push and an enabling environment for scaling up restoration in India. While there has been a valid focus on forested landscapes, the vast majority of the […]
India’s Successful Project Tiger Could Do Even Better, Say Experts
The Third pole
