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Who Speaks for Forests and Seas? Rethinking How Business Uses Biodiversity Science and Indigenous Knowledge

Ravi Singh4 days ago08 mins

Two landscapes. One document. A single, quietly important question. In the buffer zone of Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Tiger Reserve in Karnataka, Soliga adivasi farmers grow ragi (finger millet) in polyculture systems that have shaped this landscape for generations. These fields sustain documented populations of native pollinators, soil microbial communities that regulate crop disease, and owl-mediated…

South Korea’s ‘solar trees’ are generating power without cutting down forests |

Ravi Singh5 days ago03 mins

South Korea is leading an innovative effort with renewable energy that addresses how to resolve the major conflict between using land and protecting it. Historical solar farms generally require extensive deforestation; studies in Scientific Reports have indicated that conventional solar farms can eliminate 98 per cent of existing tree biomass. However, the new design for…

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Up to 15% of Sundarbans Mangroves Losing Resilience to Cyclones, Climate Change and Human Pressure, Study Finds

Ravi Singh2 weeks ago04 mins

The Sundarbans, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site spanning India and Bangladesh, is seeing a marked decline in its ability to recover from environmental stress like climate driven and anthropogenic disturbances, a new study has found. Researchers estimate that around 10-15 per cent of the forest, roughly 610 to…

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Tropical Insects Near Their Heat Limits as Climate Change Pushes Species Toward Collapse

Ravi Singh2 weeks ago05 mins

Insects make up to , and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species will cope with driven by climate change. I am an animal ecologist, studying how organisms respond to climate change. My research aims to provide a…

Scientists finally uncover what’s hidden beneath the world’s oldest tree, and it’s alive |

Ravi Singh4 weeks ago03 mins

In the temperate rainforests of Chile’s Alerce Costero National Park, deep in the ground, is an ancient conifer called ‘Gran Abuelo’ that has been protecting a hidden secret for thousands of years. A recent study published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation has revealed the tree’s greatest value lies in what is hidden beneath the…

Centre seeks report from Odisha on felling of 2,000 trees at NIT campus | India News

Ravi Singh4 weeks ago03 mins

The Centre has sought an action taken report from the Odisha government over a proposal to fell more than 2,000 full-grown trees inside the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela campus for construction of a new building. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has asked the Additional Chief…