Jyoti Singh
Hydroponics may provide better agriculture solutions
Posted on 26 Dec, 2019 07:45 PMNew Delhi, December 20 (India Science Wire): With rise in the population size the demand for food is also increasing and expected to increase up to 59 percent to 98 percent by 2050. Looking at this emerging demand hydroponics may be seen as a better technique of agriculture.
Scientists intervene to save dry toilets
Posted on 11 Dec, 2019 11:16 AMNew Delhi, December 10 (India Science Wire): Even as efforts are underway to replace dry latrines with modern septic toilets, a group of scientists at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) have worked to save one type of traditional dry toilet.
Glacial lake keeps disaster managers on toes in Sikkim
Posted on 02 Oct, 2018 12:30 PMDisasters managers and scientists in Sikkim are keeping a close watch on a lake formed due to the melting of glaciers to see how successful is an experiment they began two years back to siphon off excess water from the lake to prevent it from bursting.