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Electric Mobility: Government Accelerates Its Efforts
The Indian government has been looking to step up the electric vehicle (EV) market to enable greater adoption of this sustainable mobility solution. Although governmental efforts are yielding positive...
Forest Dwellers Vs Forest Rights
Hundreds of forest dwellers’ right to forest land has been rejected without following procedures established by law, showing poor implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006.
Are Indian Readers Less Inquisitive About Critical Developmental Issues?
A short term response based research was conducted by Geography and You during the 2019 New Delhi World Book Fair on critical thinking amongst the reading public.
Global Initiatives in Biodiversity Conservation
In an effort to conserve biodiversity many initiatives have been taken at national and international levels, which has culminated into several globally binding protocol and conventions.
CRZ 2018: Violating or Protecting?
The new CRZ notification of 2018 will promote tourism and other development activities in the coastal areas and is likely to generate employment opportunities. But, at the same time it will disrupt co...
Biodiversity Hotspots in India
Four biodiversity rich areas in India have been designated as the hotspots by the Conservation International. Hotspots mandate greater conservation efforts at a local, national and global level.
Polar Biology: Research Initiatives by India
Antarctic and Arctic are inhabited by organisms adapted to live in extreme environmental conditions. The capabilities of these life forms offer an insight into complex life processes. India, realising...
India's Medical Heritage
The Indian medical heritage flows in two streams—folk and scholarly. The first is an immensely diverse, ecosystem specific, community based tradition and the other a codified one, yet both are symbiot...
Climate Change and Biodiversity
The risk of climate change is universal but the poor are more vulnerable with worsening food security and exacerbating hunger in developing countries. Climate change is also likely to affect species d...
Access and Benefit Sharing for Biodiversity Conservation
Globally, there is a serious resource gap in financing biodiversity conservation. Access and benefit sharing provides for an innovative financial mechanism. In India the mechanism has helped mobilise...