Nearly 90 per cent of sites designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are currently experiencing high levels of environmental stress, a new report has found. The UNESCO People and Nature Report is the first assessment across all UNESCO categories such as World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks. It…
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 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…
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…
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…