The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Doctors and NGOs urge the Centre and the State to ban lime or chuna in plastic sachets used in betel chewing and also acids used as cleaning agents in home. CHENNAI:Doctors and NGOs urge the Centre and the State to ban lime or chuna in plastic sachets used in betel …
Analysis done using temporal satellite data over six different time periods concluded that the mangrove cover in state has been increased. VIJAYAWADA: A new study by three professors has revealed that mangrove cover has increased in Andhra Pradesh by 88.64 sq km. The analysis done using temporal satellite data over …
Pulse panchayat is an integrated approach in establishing a sustainable production, value addition and marketing system. The initiative implemented by a Farmer Producer Company in Tamil Nadu, is moving towards achieving self sufficiency in pulse production. Original Source
Trichy: Local climate action, which affects agricultural resources, water bodies and affects the environment was the main theme of a workshop 'Climate change and local climate action', organised here on Tuesday by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and ClimaAdapt, another non-profit organisation working for a clean environment. It was stressed …
Contextualising the impact of climate change for a local audience was the focus of a knowledge sharing workshop conducted for the region’s journalists by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), in collaboration with ClimaAdapt at Hotel Femina on Tuesday. “Climate change is an important problem because it has affected our …
Women tribal farmers are helming many community managed automatic weather stations at various agro-ecological zones here that could be game changers for the region in providing timely and accurate forecasts and ensuring food and nutrition security. Of the seven automatic weather stations in the hill ranges here, four are run …
Experts from the National Agri Food Institute and the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, led by officials of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), have developed a new high-yielding and disease-resistant variety of wheat. The new variety has been notified for cultivation in the Indo-Gangetic Plains and other areas which include …
Syzygium travncoricum, a tree endemic to Kerala, is no longer ‘critically endangered’ as classified on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Field studies conducted by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in the wake of the IUCN classification suggest that the tree can now …
State told not to treat eco protection as a soft subject The State government has failed to implement various Centrally sponsored projects aimed at rejuvenating the Pampa, the Vembanad Lake, and the Kuttanad water system, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS) general secretary, has said. Mr. Nair told The …
“The project to ‘Alleviate Poverty and Malnutrition in Agro Biodiversity Hot Spots’ in Kolli Hills that is jointly implemented by the University of Alberta (UA), Canada, and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), India, has progressed well in achieving its goals. It will be scaled up to benefit people living in …
India and the European Union have signed a Rs 80-crore (about €12-million) agreement to recycle industrial and domestic waste water to provide water for irrigation purposes. Besides, the two sides would work on other products that come out of waste water and also on the efficient use of water under …
Malnutrition still being the biggest malady of Odisha, the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) has come up with an innovative project to counter it. The Foundation will implement ‘Malnutrition Free Odisha Programme’ by April, the key component of which will be bio-fortification of farm lands, Prof MS Swaminathan, MP and …
Tests conducted on soil samples to determine level of macro and micro nutrients Study on the availability of micro and macro nutrients in soil samples collected from Valapurnadu Panchayat atop Kolli Hills reveals that it lacked three of the four main macro ingredients – organic carbon, nitrogen and potash. “On …
A panel of scientists set up on the orders of the Supreme Court has recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of all genetically modified or Bt food crops. The six-member panel of technical experts came to this conclusion on the basis of the overall status of food safety evaluation …
If an interesting feasibility study gets general approval, we could have a cross-sectoral institutional mechanism for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity. It seeks to strike a balance between conservation of marine and coastal ecosystem, marshy mangroves and protecting the livelihood of local people. It is a land where herons, …
In a first-of-its-kind initiative by the corporate sector, Tata Power has come forward to conserve the coastal biodiversity of the city with plans to plant and regenerate mangroves. In an interaction with the editorial staff of The Indian Express on Tuesday, chief conservator of forests (mangrove cell) N Vasudevan said …
In its verdict giving the thumbs-up to the Kudankulam nuclear power project, the Madras High Court ruled that the government had taken post-Fukushima concerns while clearing the project and observed that remote possibilities of a disaster could not be cited to abandon a project. The basic issue before the court …
Norway will fund a Rs 25-crore climate change research and adaptation project in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Under the project, ClimaAdapt, selected farmers in the two States will be taught methods to mitigate the effects climate change on agriculture. While WALAMTARI (Water and Land Management Training and Research Institute) …
As part of the steps taken by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) to alleviate malnutrition among the tribal community living at Valappur atop Kolli Hills, the foundation has initiated rearing of carp fish in the private and community ponds in a people participatory mode, on Saturday. “Nutrition deficiency diseases …
A decade ago, Chandra Pradhani, a Paraja tribal of Nuaguda village in Kundra block of Odisha's Koraput district, would migrate to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to earn a living as a brick kiln worker. He no longer does this. Today, he is feted by the nation. He was one of the …
