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Many people living in India are at risk due to disruptions in freshwater availability and wastewater concerns. Climate change-related impacts on the rainy season are already causing and will remain to have, major consequences for farming, making India much more fragile, because agriculture employs more than 60% of the nation's workforce, and roughly two-thirds of the agricultural area is rain-fed. Simultaneously, the government has...

There are more than 130 physiologically active chemicals in the neem tree and it's no surprise that it's a useful antiviral and antibacterial agent, as well as a potent immuno-stimulant. In a nutshell, neem is the perfect zero-waste cure to most of your health-woes!The health advantages of neem leaves, a proven traditionally effective medication, have been discussed for years. It would be unusual to...

What is the IPCC report? A new IPCC report, which is nothing but validating all our anticipations to the catastrophic news. Confirmation of our research and experience on the effects of climate change. Thousands of pages of information were compiled by hundreds of scientists not just predicting what the future holds but also stating what is happening right now.  A collective effort by 195...

Ecotones (Eng. Eco + Gk. Tonos, meaning tension) are areas of steep transition between ecological communities, ecosystems, and/or ecological regions along environmental or other gradients (for example, anthropogenic gradients, like agricultural lands and forests). These transition areas occur at varying spatial scales and range from natural ecotones between ecosystems and biomes to human-generated boundaries.

  In Buxwaha forest, in the Chattarpur region of Madhya Pradesh, a steady agitation has been brewing against the bid won by the Aditya Birla Group to extricate diamonds of an assessed limit of 3.42 crore carat, ensuring the felling of over two lakh trees in the process. The project undertaken by the Essel Mining & Industries Limited of the Birla Group in December...