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Extreme Rain Events in a Warming Environment
Extreme rainfall events have increased in the recent decades despite overall rainfall data showing a stable Indian monsoon, as precipitation from increasing heavy events is offset by decreasing modera...
Urban Trees for Combating Climate Change
The urban environment of modern India has undergone a dramatic change predominated by concrete structures, congested commercial spaces and incessant traffic. The degeneration of living environment in...
Climate Change in India
Climate in India has perceptibly changed in the last hundred years. The decadal and long term changes observed have pointed towards increasing events of heavy rainfall, rapid warming of the Indian Oce...
Medicinal Plants under the climate change threat
Conservationists are aware that depletion of jungles and over harvesting limit the capacity of medicinal plants to proliferate. But a larger threat is the sensitivity of rare species to changes in tem...
An Interview in Goa
Responding to the advertisement seeking doctors for the 28th Scientific Expedition to Antarctica I found myself flying through menacing cumulonimbus to land safely in rain swept Dabholim Airport, Vasc...
Changing Ocean Atmosphere Interface
Dr. Shailesh Nayak’s calm aura, ease and lucidity spoke of an authority that complemented his tall frame. Self effacing about being the pioneering scientist in shaping the recent Tsunami Warning Syste...
Climate Change Impact on Thar Desert
The arid western part of Indian subcontinent, including the western part of Rajasthan and the adjoining part of Pakistan, is likely to experience large magnitude climatic changes.
Effects of Climate Change on Health
There is now good evidence that regional changes in climate, particularly increases in temperature, have already affected a diverse set of physical and biological systems in many parts of the world.
Battle Beaches
The Olive Ridley turtles, high on the endangered list, visit the coasts of Orissa to lay eggs - an honour bestowed upon us by nature. However growing industrialisation and illegal fishing have convert...
On the Wild Side
The recorded forest area of Chhattisgarh is 44.21 per cent, way above the national average of 20.6 per cent. Burgeoning with virgin forests the State serves as a refuge to many endangered species of f...