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Sea Farming: A New Model for sustainable livelihood in Coastal India
In India, there is an urgent need to enhance the earning capacity of the people living along the coastal areas. Sea farming through large scale seaweed cultivation is being considered as an alternate...
Climate change and Indian marine fisheries options for adaptation
Climate change can have a strong impact on fisheries with far-reaching consequences for food and livelihood security of a sizeable section of the population in India.
Ocean Update
The chief arms of the Indian Ocean are the Arabian Sea - with the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Persian Gulf, the Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea. Here is some news about the ocean and its sea...
Winter Magic at Dadri
The ash lagoons of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Dadri have become an avian habitat frequented in winter by hordes of migratory birds of a wide variety from far off lands.
Enigmatic Chhattisgarh
Nestled amidst the mountain ranges of Mekal, Sihava and Ramgiri and watered by numerous rivers - Mahanadi, Shivnath, Indravati, Hasdo and Kharun – Chhattisgarh owns an ancient cultural heritage that b...
Climate change and Indian forests: A dynamic vegetation modelling approach
An assessment of the impact of climate change on forest ecosystems in India has been attempted in this paper, based on climate projections of the Regional Climate Model of the Hadley Centre and the dy...
Rajiv K Chaturvedi Ranjith Gopalakrishnan Mathangi Jayaraman Govindasamy Bala N V Joshi Raman Sukumar and N H Ravindranath
Changing Forest Carbon
Under elevated CO2 conditions a possibility of decomposition occurring more than net primary production leading to a loss of carbon is predicted in some forest regions. A micro level study undertaken...
Forests of the Northeast
Over exploitation, habitat loss and fragmentation threaten the biodiversity in the northeast region of India and serious efforts have to be made by the government as well as the people to protect and...
Foraging through forests: Gaddi
Among the various transhumant tribes that inhabit the Himalaya, the Gaddi herders share a causal relationship with the deodar and chir forests. Guarded by ferocious dogs the sheep and goat owned or lo...