ecosystem

Grazing Animals Key to Long-Term Soil Carbon Stability

Grazing Animals Key to Long-Term Soil Carbon StabilityGrazing Animals Key to Long-Term Soil Carbon Stability

Large mammalian herbivores like the yak and ibex play a crucial role in stabilising the pool of soil carbon in… Read More

Honour for Punjabi University, Patiala

Honour for Punjabi University, PatialaHonour for Punjabi University, Patiala

Punjabi University, Patiala, has added a feather to its cap with Dr Himender Bharti, Head of its Department of Zoology… Read More

Study Finds High Level of Pharma Contaminants in Cauvery

Study Finds High Level of Pharma Contaminants in CauveryStudy Finds High Level of Pharma Contaminants in Cauvery

A new study has found that the waters of River Cauvery in south India are polluted by a range of… Read More

DESIGNS to Conserve and Restore Thar Desert

DESIGNS to Conserve and Restore Thar DesertDESIGNS to Conserve and Restore Thar Desert

The Indian Institute of Technology-Jodhpur has launched a new initiative to conserve and restore the Thar Desert, its minerals and… Read More

Water Crisis in Himalayan Ecosystems: The Way Forward

Water Crisis in Himalayan Ecosystems: The Way ForwardWater Crisis in Himalayan Ecosystems: The Way Forward

A recent report released by NITI Aayog stated that nearly 50 per cent of the springs in the Indian Himalayan… Read More

Another Man vs Environment Conflict: Kerala’s Ashtamudi Lake

Another Man vs Environment Conflict: Kerala’s Ashtamudi LakeAnother Man vs Environment Conflict: Kerala’s Ashtamudi Lake

  Although industrialisation has often been blamed for environmental degradation, far less research has gone on the ill-effects of rapid… Read More