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 …
askot sanctuary in Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, has been invaded by non-native plant species. According to scientists of the G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development ( gbpihed ), Almora, if conservation is not taken up immediately, the sensitive balance of nature in the sanctuary may be irreversibly damaged. …
MY GRANDFATHER was young when he died of tuberculosis and our family was quite traumatised by the event. Thank God no one has to die of that terrible disease in today's world -- or so I thought, before I started my medical practice in Kumaon. My first lesson about TB …
The important attributes of macrobenthic community structure viz., species composition and number, population density, biomass, and dominance and diversity indices were measured at different depths and discussed in relation to pollution of Lake Naini Tal. The zone below 7 m depth, where anoxic conditions prevailed for most part of the …