Green Humour | Photo Credit: Rohan Chakravarty Green Humour | Photo Credit: Rohan Chakravarty Rohan Chakravarty is a cartoonist and illustrator from Nagpur. His series, ‘Green Humour’, consists of cartoons and comics on wildlife, nature conservation, environmental issues, sustainability, and all things green. Published – January 09, 2025 03:13 pm IST Source link
All these animals and plants have a common name because of the way they look! Just fill in the blanks with what you think they look like. The number in the brackets is the number of letters of the word. Good luck! Source link
Biologist Thayana Giao holds a Green Sea turtle during an intentional capture to monitor turtles’ health, weight and pollution level, by Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Sea turtles in the Guanabara Bay of Rio de Janeiro are getting healthier after…
Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say companies that are researching other ways to grow cocoa or develop cocoa substitutes. Scientists and entrepreneurs are working on ways to make more cocoa that stretch well beyond the tropics, from Northern California to Israel. California…
Days after the Centre unveiled its BioE3 policy to boost bio-technology-centric manufacturing in India, the Department of Biotechnology – as part of first steps – is contemplating setting up enzyme-manufacturing facilities to bolster ethanol production., according to scientists and officials with the Department of Biotechnology. The first such plant may come up in Manesar, Haryana…
A bird’s eye view of the Sedongpu Gully in Tibetan China, visible just to the left of the Yarlung Tsangpo River at the centre of this image, December 30, 2020. | Photo Credit: Google Earth A new study on the high frequency of mass wasting events in the Sedongpu Gully of the Tibetan Plateau since…
India is increasingly aware of the multiple location-specific natural hazards it is facing, each with a rapidly evolving risk landscape. These risks are a combination of weather events, vulnerabilities of the local population, and their exposure. Risks are best managed and mitigated with well-planned responses. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) deserves the kudos it…
For 13 consecutive months, global average air and ocean temperatures were probably the hottest they have been in human history. This streak of extraordinary heat ended last month, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported, as July 2024 was only the second hottest ever recorded – 0.04°C cooler than a record set the previous July….
A cyclist cools off at a fountain at Madrid Rio park during a heatwave, in Madrid, Spain, July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters/Ana Beltran/File Photo More than 47,000 people died in Europe due to scorching temperatures in 2023, with countries in the region’s south hit the hardest, according to a report by the Barcelona…
As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-coloured spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view. These were unmistakably the remains of an arctic tundra ecosystem…
