Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of R.D. Singh Bandral Vs Union of India & Others dated 17/04/2023. The matter related to protecting the flora and fauna of the Kailash Kund-Seoz Dhar region by declaring the same as protected area and not to allow construction of the …
Climate Change Threatens Australia's Koala - Report AUSTRALIA: April 7, 2008 SYDNEY - Australia's unique tree-dwelling koalas may become a victim of climate change, new research reported on Saturday shows. Australian scientists say that eucalyptus leaves, the staple diet of koalas and other animals, could become inedible because of climate …
Previous exclosure studies measuring the top-down control of arthropod abundance and herbivory combined the effects of birds and bats. We experimentally partitioned bird predation from bat predation in a lowland tropical forest in Panama and measured the direct effects (arthropod abundance) and indirect effects (herbivory). The exclusion of birds and …
The goal of this study was to assess the phytoremediation potential of transgenic Indian mustard plants. The increase in metal accumulation as a result of these genetic engineering approaches is typically two-to-threefold more metal per plant, which potentially enhances phytoremediation efficiency by the same factor. The significance of this finding …
Pot experiments was conducted to observe the impact of CdCl2, CuCl2, Pb(NO3)2 and ZnCl2 on chlorophylls of Brassica juncea, Brassica rapa, Lactuca sativa, Lepidium sativum and Daucus carota. Present studies suggest that depletion of essential micronutrients like Zn and Fe; or Zn and Cu; or Fe and Mn in the …
Energy balance measurements were carried out in a suburban vegetated areas of southern part of Delhi. These measurements were made on several days during winter and summer of 1998 and 1999 respectively.
Effects of industrial effluents on germination, growth, protein content and metal accumulation patterns in Hibiscus esculentus L. were studied. Effluent from two factories in the industrial belt of Cochin, Kerala were used to soak the seeds for germination and to irrigate the seedlings in the field after physico-chemical analysis. Results …
The importance of environment enhanced in India in the aftermath of Stockholm Conference (1972)when steps were taken on environmental protection and conservation at the national level. This led to development of Environment Statistics which, to a large extent, are used to explain the relationship between the economic activities and their …
the Encyclopaedia of Life is a click away. First 30,000 pages of the 10-year-old project, which aims to document information on all species, includes data on classification of the species, their history, ecology and geographical range. Developers of the project say researchers and students will benefit from the data bank, …
To improve the understanding of consequences of climate change for annual plant communities, the author used a detailed, grid-based model that simulates the effect of daily rainfall variability on individual plants in five climatic regions on a gradient from 100 to 800 mm mean annual precipitation (MAP). The model explicitly …
Lankan scientists, others to study climatic changes National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) in Lucknow in assistance with foreign scientists, will undertake a joint project to study climate change and its impact on flora in the South Asian region. The project that will witness participation of scientists from Nepal, Sri Lanka, …
THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF MAHINDRA United World College of India have created a unique biodiversity park and reserve spread over 170 acres in Pune. Inaugurated on 9 February, the project aims to enhance the flora and fauna in the reserve on the Western Ghats, which itself is a global …
Trees are not very effective as carbon sinks trees may not be the insurance against global warming we all thought they were. Their ability to store carbon dioxide has diminished due to rise in temperatures and hence they will not be able to act as carbon sinks. Scientists studied two …
Carbon dioxide has a bearing on food supply. For example, some cereals are specifically adapted to low concentrations of carbon dioxide. Pascal-Antoine Christin and colleagues from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, used a model to show that particular kinds of cereal emerged around 30 million years ago when carbon dioxide …
it is believed when invasive species are introduced in an area they inhibit the growth of local plants by producing chemicals. There is another recent theory that suggests that invasives work by changing the kinds of microbes in the soil. This phenomenon has been seen in the Western Ghats where …
Rates of atmospheric deposition of biologically active nitrogen (N)are two to seven times the pre-industrial rates in many developed nations because of combustion of fossil fuels and agricultural fertilization. They are expected to increase similarly over the next 50 years in industrializing nations of Asia and South America. Although the …
Fine roots (those with diameters <2.0 mm) serve at least two roles of global importance: They act as conduits transporting carbon (C) into belowground C pools, and they acquire soil resources.
Ever since the 2004 tsunami flattened coastal villages, the Tamil Nadu government has been raising sea walls and protective plantations on a priority basis to blunt the impact of sea waves. It touts the plantations as the first line of defence against tsunamis and cyclones. Ecologists warn it could be …
