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The water that you eat
Posted on 06 Dec, 2022 10:14 AMWhat was your water consumption today?
If I were to quickly calculate this, I would add up the litres of water I drank, the water I used up in cooking, washing, cleaning, and bathing; and quickly tell you that I used up around 80 litres of water. Your total would also be somewhere in the ballpark.
Small scale inland open water fisheries of India
Posted on 04 Dec, 2022 11:24 AMWhat are inland waters
A successful model of integrated farming system in Koraput
Posted on 03 Dec, 2022 07:12 AMRapid population growth is leading to land fragmentation and reducing the amount of cultivable land available to owners. This trend of declining land ownership combined with natural disasters is reducing the viability and sustainability of agriculture.
COP-27: Act now
Posted on 02 Dec, 2022 10:06 AMThe Conference of Parties-27 (COP-27) ended on November 20 in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh. This conference was supposed to last until November 18, but it ended on November 20 as no result was reached by November 18. In this conference, the item named 'Loss and Damages Fund' has been passed, which is being considered as a major achievement.
Categorising watersheds for freshwater ecosystem conservation in India
Posted on 25 Nov, 2022 04:20 PMWe invite your feedback and contributions to this article. Please view the maps by clicking the link at the end of the article.
The Cauvery - dammed and fractured
Posted on 23 Nov, 2022 03:58 PMIndia is a dammed country. According to the National Registry for Large Dams (NRLD), in 2016 a total of 4877 dams were built in India and 313 dams were still under construction.
Green nod granted to Centre’s ambitious Rs 72,000 crore project in Greater Nicobar Island
Posted on 17 Nov, 2022 06:02 PMMoEF grants green clearance to multi-development projects in Greater Nicobar Island
India joins Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC) at COP27
Posted on 17 Nov, 2022 01:34 PMIndia joins the newly formed Mangrove Alliance for Climate (MAC)
Improving community resilience in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in India
Posted on 16 Nov, 2022 10:40 PMSince 2019, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in-collaboration with Partners for Resilience (PfR) have developed and implemented scalable Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) models, working a
Supporting social businesses from rural India
Posted on 11 Nov, 2022 12:08 AMNSRCEL- the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of IIM Bangalore, has signed an MoU with Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSBFB), the pioneers in social business financing and scaling.