In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses amounted to US$202.7 billion. The 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic was the most catastrophic event …
In a recent presentation on The Threatened Birds of India, at the India International Centre, New Delhi, Bikram Grewal, a prolific writer on the birds of India, revealed the sad statistics of India's depleting forest cover and its impact on the avian population. The Red data book of the Zoological …
The area under forest cover in India has been a subject of controversy and intense debate between the Forest Department anf the environmental groups and researchers. As more and more remote sensing data became available even in Forest Survey of India statistics the forest cover started shrinking considerably. This books …
WILDLIFE conservation has made commendable progress in India. We now have a network of over 500 Protected Areas (PAS), a Wildlife Protection Act, an exclusive Wildlife Wing within the Forest Department to manage PAs, an everexpanding body of scientists and institutions dedicated to wildlife research, and scores of NGOs and …
A GIANT question mark casts a shadow over Norway's whale census, Recent revelations in a confidential document from the Norwegian Computing Centre and the University of Oslo disclose errors in the software used to estimate the North Atlantic minke whale population. Norway is in favour of a resumption of whale …
Now health statistics are available at a glance. The National Atlas and Thematic Mappings Organisation (NATMO) has released a Health Map of India. This map highlights the health care facilities and medical attendance available in different parts of the country. In addition to this, the map gives a comprehensive picture …
In fifty developing countries, which contain half of the total human population of the world, there is a heavy dependence on draught animals as an energy source. These animals are used for agriculture operations in 52% of cultivated areas of the world, as well as for hauling 25 million carts. …
IF YOUR heart is in the wrong place, perhaps a gene is responsible for it. Researchers have recently identified a gene that plays a major role in deciding whether the internal organs in mice should be assigned to the right or left of the body and this has initiated the …
I was talking the other day," said William Rogers to the other villagers gathered around the inn fire, 'to a gentleman about the place called Louvain, what the Germans have burnt down. He said he knowed it well - used to Wait a Belgian friend there. He said the house …
THIS BOOK is a misnomer for "heritage" connotes something far removed from the present. Kautilya's work, for example, might be described as India's heritage. The book, however, presents 10 autobiographical articles by Raghu Raj Bahadur, Debabrata Basu, Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar, Gopinath Kallianpur, Debabrata Lahiri, Pesi Rustom Masani, Keshavan Raghavan Nair, …
Bihar is a predominantly agricultural State with 86 per cent of her population depending upon agriculture. In my study of the National Income of Bihar published in the Indian Journal of Economics, July 1951, I had estimated the gross agricultural income of Bihar for the year 1846-47 at Rs. 230 …
