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August 11, 2024
SeasonWatch: Citizens, trees, and climate change
Even in the face of daunting challenges like climate change, collective action and community engagement can lead to meaningful change
SeasonWatch tree walk at Rupa Rahul Bajaj Centre for Environment and Art (Image: SeasonWatch)
August 2, 2024
Wayanad landslide tragedy: Balancing nature and development
There is a need for a multi-faceted approach to disaster management, combining advanced monitoring, early warning systems, community preparedness, and sustainable land use practices to mitigate future risks.
Aftermath of a 2022 landslide on Nedumpoil ghat road (Image: Vinayaraj, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0)
July 10, 2024
A silent crisis in Indian farmlands: The disappearing trees
Millions of trees are fast disappearing from India's farmlands. What are its implications for agriculture and the environment?
Disappearing trees over Indian farmlands (Image Source: WOTR)
June 7, 2024
Misguided ocean carbon capture: Hype outweighs science
Scientists question effectiveness of nature-based CO2 removal using the ocean
Ocean ecosystem (Image: PxHere, CC0 Public Domain)
June 6, 2024
गर्म होते महासागर, ऑक्सीजन की कमी और अम्लीकरण : महासागरों में 10 गुना बढ़ेंगे 'Hot Days'
एक अध्ययन से पता चलता है कि समुद्री लू या हीटवेव (असामान्य रूप से उच्च समुद्री तापमान की अवधि) जो पहले हर साल लगभग 20 दिनों तक होती थी (1970-2000 के बीच), वह बढ़कर 220 से 250 दिन प्रति वर्ष हो सकती है। जानिए क्या होंगे इसके परिणाम?
गर्म होते महासागर
May 31, 2024
Climate action in urban spaces: SEEDS cool roof solutions in Delhi slums
From scorching to sustainable: Building resilience against heatwaves
A multifaceted approach to urban heatwaves (Image: Sri Kolari)
Smaller is better in Maharashtra!
Smaller dams to fight drought, help for Delhi’s rainwater harvesting programme and a flyover that recharges groundwater are the highlights of this week’s news.
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 17 Jun, 2013 02:17 PM

Smaller is better in Maharashtra
Smaller dams to be built in Maharashtra
Call for the positions of Fellow and Research Associate, Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), Pune
Recruitment for a Fellow and Research Associate to work on water conflicts
Posted on 13 Jun, 2013 02:38 PM

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Drought-free in Maharashtra – six small villages, one big lesson
Awareness and community-level action are key to the success of any initiative; these six villages in Maharashtra are testimony to that.
Priya Desai
Madhavi Purohit
Prateek Sharma
Praveena Sridhar
Ayan Biswas
Rahul Bakare
Posted on 10 Jun, 2013 02:09 PM

Maharashtra is reeling under a drought – one of the worst in the last 40 years. The state declared drought in 125 out of 358 talukas during kharif 2012-13, and then declared water scarcity in 3,905 villages in rabi 2012-13.
Satchiwadi village used less groundwater this year
Book review - ‘Conserving resources in the Himalayas’
The Himalayas, rich in natural resources is now under stress due to overuse. These 21 essays contain information about conservation efforts made in the region, especially Uttarakand.
Kaushal Kumar Sharma
S.K. Bandooni
V.S. Negi
Posted on 09 Jun, 2013 07:29 AM

Uttarakhand is blessed with an immense amount of natural resources such as forests, wildlife and water, but if you are looking for some research-based information that quantifies, classifies and organizes this information, there isn’t much out there.
A man tries to beat out a wildfire in pine forest
International Conference- Political Economy of Water: A Social Work Response, College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai
An attempt to examine specific nuances of water scarcity and develop viable socialwork intervention strategies based on the experiences of successful intervention models
Posted on 08 Jun, 2013 12:48 PM

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College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan
Call for Participation-Ecosystems for Life Media Fellowship, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), July-December 2013
An initiative to create a knowledge hub that will facilitate developing a shared vision in both India and Bangladesh, for effective governance of trans-boundary ecosystems
Posted on 04 Jun, 2013 04:11 PM

Ecosystems for life

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Offer of grant progamme for journalists - The Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP)
The HICAP grant programme seeks to encourage journalists from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region to report on climate change across the five sub-basins
Posted on 29 May, 2013 09:20 AM

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SANDEE calls for research concept notes on the economics of natural resource use and environmental change in South Asia
SANDEE's focus is on environmental management, and is asking for proposals that include a strong economics component
Posted on 30 Mar, 2013 12:46 PM

  
Water management - Mounting challenges and responses - A report on the three day seminar jointly organised by KSCSTE and C Achutha Menon Foundation, Trivandrum from the 21st to the 23rd December 2012
A 3 day national seminar organised for creating awareness and triggering a dialogue among scientists and lay people on the emerging challenges related to water resources, quality and conservation
Aarti
Posted on 14 Mar, 2013 10:12 PM

This three day national seminar was jointly organised by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), Thiruvananthapuram, and the C Achutha Menon Foundation (AMF), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala and included presentations and discussions on a range of water related themes such as water scarcity, water conservation, commercialisation of water, water conflicts and water management.

The seminar aimed at creating awareness and triggering a dialogue among scientists, academicians, researchers, activists, as well as lay people on the emerging challenges related to water resources, water quality and water conservation in the state of Kerala. The seminar was inaugurated by Shri V M Sudheeran, Ex MP and former speaker, while Dr Rajasekaran Pillai, Executive Vice President KSCSTE, delivered the keynote address with the felicitation by Shri M P Achuthan, MP.

The seminar included discussions under five different themes related to water issues that included water scarcity, water conservation, commercialisation of water, water as an new area for conflicts and water management.

Seminar on water management

The three day seminar on water management at the Achuta Menon Foundation, Trivandrum, Kerala

Changing climate, changing lives - A film on the impact of climate change on agriculture in Dhulikhel, Nepal
This video echoes the voices of people experiencing the brunt of climate change in the Nepal Himalayas.
Usha Dewani
Posted on 09 Mar, 2013 12:38 PM

The story of climate change has been hijacked by snow and ice.
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