Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
B.R. SRIKANTH Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are working on making future habitation of the moon safer and less arduous. A team led by K.P. Jagannatha Reddy has proposed to create a lunar habitat complete with the slopes, craters and volcanoes, on terra firma. To start with, …
Karnataka is the second most vulnerable state in India, after Rajasthan to climate change. This was because of the aridity of the North Karnataka regions, which made the state, the second driest place in the country, Prof N H Ravindranath, Department of Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), said …
A multi-disciplinary expert committee that probed into the reasons for the landslide in Karwar which claimed 19 lives during the October floods has found that deforestation and large scale excavation of soil from the hilllock lead to the tragedy. The committee lead by Dr T V Ramachandra, from the Centre …
Prof. C.N.R. Rao left many a scientist slack-jawed with the disclosure at the platinum jubilee meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences India's top-most advisory panel on climate change has no climate change scientists. The Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change comprises half-a-dozen Central ministers, senior bureaucrats, economists and representatives …
N V Vijayakumar, Bangalore, Nov 10, DH News Service : While policy makers and politicians around the globe are gearing up for brainstorming sessions at the Copenhagen summit on climate change, one of the desolate corners of IISc is charting a new course with an industry partner for reducing green …
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, Oct 12, DHNS: Things are hotting up in the City. Several parts of Bangalore are witnessing an increase in the land surface temperature (LST) by as much as two degrees Celcius over the past few years, a study by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) …
''Indian coastal cities are at risk from sea level rise due to climate change as ice shelves, which require more than 10,000 years to form, are disintegrating in weeks due to an increase in global temperature,'' warned Prof Srinivasan, chairman of Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science …
Worried over the potential negative impact of global warming on Western Ghats, Karnataka is seeking the Centre's help to set up a research centre to record the process of climate change at the biodiversity hot spot. "Climate change poses a serious threat to the pristine wealth of Western Ghats in …
India has started a pilot project to quantify climate benefits from a massive anti-poverty scheme that could become one of the country's main weapons to fight criticism it is not doing enough to tackle global warming. The flagship anti-poverty plan, started three years ago, provides 100 days of employment every …
Aggression shapes the queen in a primitive wasp society Social insects like ants, bees and wasps live in colonies headed by one or a few queens who lay eggs, and chiefly comprise sterile workers who take care of the nest and rear the queen
Even as the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) students and teachers on Thursday staged a demonstration against tree felling at the CNR Rao Circle, it became clear that the permission to cut the trees was given on April 10, much before objections were called for. The permission was reportedly granted …
Upadrasta Ramamurty, associate professor, department of materials engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, talks to Down To Earth about metallic glasses The possible applications: Materials like steel are cheap and easy to manufacture. Hence the shift to metallic glass is yet to happen. Also, the metallic glass, available so …
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will soon be a testing area for solar thermal technology and the host for a 10 MW solar thermal plant on its campus. IISc signed a MoU with the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (C-STEP) on Monday, for partnership in technologies …
DH News Service, Bangalore: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the setting up of a Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) was signed between the Government of Karnataka and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), here on Friday. Following the MoU, IISc director P Balram said that …
Experts prefer nuclear energy in short run DH News Service,Bangalore: A panel discussion on Climate Change: An Indian Perspective, held on Monday as part of the centenary conference of Indian Institute of Science witnessed experts stressing the need for reducing emission levels by shifting to nuclear energy in the short …
BANGALORE: The former president of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam said that the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will be rated as one of the top scientific institutions in the world by 2030, while he presented the IISc vision at the institute
DH News Service, Bangalore: Scientists have stepped in to create awareness on the dangers posed by the alarming rate at which different animal and plant species are going extinct. The Southern zone master resource persons
Divya Gandhi Bangalore: The world could see a potentially catastrophic four-degree Celsius rise in temperature by the end of the century, a Guardian report on Thursday has said, and quoted top scientists urging the United Kingdom to "prepare' for such an eventuality. "If the U.K. is worried, we have far …
Sustaining forest health is critical for sustaining livelihoods, conserving biodiversity, producing biomass and protecting watersheds and river valley systems Prof N H Ravindranath Climate change's impact on physical and biological systems is irrefutable. Forests account for nearly a third of the planet's land surface and over a billion people depend …
The worst fears about the Garden City's once salubrious temperature rising beyond comfort levels appear to be coming true... A recent study by the Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, has revealed that the temperature has shot up by an alarming three degrees in the past decade alone! The study, conducted …
