Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
A simulation experiment was used to understand the importance of riparian vegetation density, channel orientation and flow velocity for stream energy budgets and river temperature dynamics. Water temperature and meteorological observations were obtained in addition to hemispherical photographs along a ∼1 km reach of the Girnock Burn, a tributary of …
Wetlands seem to be more vulnerable to invasions compared to terrestrial ecosystems. The alien invasive weed, Ludwigia peruviana, invading the wetlands of the Dhansiri catchment and eastern part of Kopili in Assam has threatened the resident biodiversity and has also posed possibilities of spreading to other wetlands of North East …
“What else is a lake,” asked the NGT bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) pulled up the Haryana government on Wednesday after the latter claimed that the Najafgarh lake was “not a lake but a low-lying area where rainwater and overflow from the Sahibi river …
Biomass studies are fundamental to understand the dynamics of ecological systems and its distribution. It helps in determining the distribution and flow of materials in the ecosystems. The primary productivity of different vegetation types is of great importance for man as he is so much dependent upon plant products.
This document provides an overview of the global aquaculture status and development trends resulting from a series of regional reviews; Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Near East and North Africa, North America and Sub-Saharan Africa, conducted by FAO in 2010. The global production of fish from aquaculture has …
Industrial development and rapid urbanisation are taking a toll on the freshwater species of the Western Ghats. Close to 16 per cent of freshwater fish, molluscs, dragonflies, damselflies and aquatic plants found along the length of peninsular India are threatened with extinction due to water pollution from agricultural and urban …
The Western Ghats is one of the world’s most heavily populated biodiversity hotspots providing for and supporting 400 million people. However, these diverse freshwater ecosystems face many threats because of untrammelled economic development. In most instances the development planning process does not consider the requirements of these freshwater ecosystems, mainly …
The study from March 2011 to February 2012 in the Tanguar haor, Sunamgonj, Bangladesh found three habitat types of vegetation composition as upland, emergent and aquatic which included submerged plants (23), free floating plants (12), rooted floating plants (21), sedges and meadows (35), reed swamp (7), freshwater swamp forest (9), …
Floating gardening, a form of hydroponics using aquatic plants as the medium, is a traditional cultivation system in southern Bangladesh practiced for year-rouund seedling and vegetable production. The livelihoods of marginalized people of the wetlands in North-eastern Bangladesh are often constrained by 7-8 months water stagnation due to floods. A …
Heavy metals are one of the prominent sources of pollution in industrial wastewater and excessive presence of these metals is causing severe health and environmental problems. The prevailing purification technologies used to remove these contaminants are costlyu and sometimes not eco-friendly, so industries often try to escape from their responsibilities …
The congress, to be held from December 27 to 31, focusses on including biodiversity in policy-making In danger: Some of the exotic plants to be displayed at the Indian THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Malabar Botanical Garden Society, a grant-in-aid institution under the State government, will exhibit an assorted and rare collection of …
In danger: Some of the exotic plants to be displayed at the biodiversity congress THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Malabar Botanical Garden Society, a Grant-in-Aid institution under the government of Kerala, will exhibit an assorted and rare collection of 32 aquatic plant species, most of them facing threat of extinction, at the first …
Nagercoil: The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2010 as the International year of biodiversity in its 61st session in 2006 to help create awareness of the importance of biodiversity through activities and events.
CUDDALORE: When the global warming is threatening the terrestrial eco-system, the marine plants are holding out the hope to humanity because these are the rich sources for pharmacology, food products and taxonomical studies. Above all, these plants also have the potential for bio-fuel production. Hence, the vision of the experts …
MUMBAI: Be warned. Your child's seemingly innocent remote-controlled car that you would normally sell to the local raddiwallah could soon be categorised as e-waste. That is if the Ministry of Environment and Forests' (MoEF) draft on the disposal of hazardous e-waste is notified and made into a law. The MoEF …
At the time when there is so much discussion about conserving the lakes of the city and removing pollution, a recent study has shown that plants like normal Water Hyacinth and Eichhornia Crassipes function like natural water purifiers and remove heavy metals, nitrates and phosphorous from the lakes. The study …
The national symposium on impact of climate change on aquatic ecosystems has recommended setting up a government-level task force comprising experts to handle policy making and research for mitigating climate change. The report prepared by the experts suggested formulating stringent rules to control the green house gas emissions. There is …
The present paper provides an enumerative account of the aquatic and marshy plants of Bakhira wetland situated in Sant Kabir Nagar. In all 119 species belonging to 79 genera and 42 families have been listed.
KOCHI: Human activity has severely affected aquatic ecosystems, so much so that a critical uncertainty remains on how human beings will interact with these ecosystems in the wake of the climatic change issue.
