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December 12, 2022
Why farmers are not adopting crop insurance in India?
Study looks at behavioral biases in crop insurance adoption
Adoption rate of crop insurance low in India despite government efforts (Image: PxHere, CC0 Public Domain)
September 13, 2022
Chaos in a concrete jungle
Heavy rains and floods have battered Bengaluru yet again. Uncontrolled and unregulated development and concretisation of the city that pays no heed to the ecology and hydrology of the region needs to stop!
Urban flooding in Bangalore (Image Source: Thejas via Wikimedia Commons)
August 11, 2022
India’s rivers in trouble due to high fertilizer load and heavy monsoons
This could lead to water quality crisis reinforcing the need for basin-specific management strategies
Around the world, more than a fifth of nitrogen released by human activity ends up in aquatic ecosystems (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
May 24, 2022
Droughts reduce India's GDP by 5 percent in twenty years
News this fortnight
India, vulnerable to droughts (Image: Pixabay; hbieser)
May 14, 2022
Assessment of climate change over the Indian region
Climate change is real. What are its implications for India? This book presents a first of its kind national forecast on the impact of global warming on climate in India.
Climate change is real. What does it mean for India? (Image Source: Robert Hensley/Wikimedia Commons)
March 29, 2022
India, in the hot seat!
The intensity and duration of heat waves is predicted to increase in India and human induced anthropogenic changes are to blame.
A man sits under the scorching heat of the sun in front of Amer fort in Jaipur (Picture courtesy: Prabhu B Doss, Flickr Commons: CC-By-NC-ND-2.0)
Call for Abstracts for 'International conference on Climate Change, ICCC-2014', Yadava College, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, May 28-31, 2014
A unique opportunity to understand new innovations to face the existing challenges, considering the current situation of India in the urban water, food, energy & climate aspects.
Posted on 29 Dec, 2013 03:40 PM

For more information on the organisers, Yadava College, Madurai, click here.

To view details on the ICCC-2014, please download attachment from below.

 
Applications invited for 'sandwich' PhD position on 'Climate Policy, Conflicts and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia', SaciWATERs
Applications are for candidates from Bangladesh, India, or Nepal, willing to do field research primarily in their own country.
Posted on 24 Dec, 2013 05:57 PM

For more information on SaciWATERs, please click here. 

To apply for the same, click here.

You may download the details of the vacancy from below .

 
1 dam, 2 projects, many fools?
Two different hydroelectric projects on a single dam built on the Nethravathi hide under the guise of a mini-hydel project and blatantly flout green norms. Is this another scam?
Parineeta Dandekar
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 05:49 PM

I was looking for Greenko’s 24.75 MW Perla Mini Hydel Project at Perla village near Bantwal, Mangalore. One would think that you wouldn't really have to search for a hydel project site given its size and scale but the villagers at Perla were puzzled when I asked them to take me there as the Project Design Document had noted the project location as Perla village.
AMR dam across Netravathi (Source: Jerry Pinto)
Batting for the environment
Jaideep Hardikar, recipient of 2013 Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in environmental reporting, talks about his journey and how failure pushed him to take the road less traveled.
Makarand Purohit
Sabita Kaushal
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 04:46 PM

By his own account, Jaideep Hardikar, is simply a chronicler of the times around him. His foray into writing and reporting was neither easy nor his first choice. Like many children of his time, he dreamt of being a cricketer but stumbled into journalism and in it, found his true calling. 
Jaideep Hardikar, 2013 Prem Bhatia Award recipient
Applications invited for the post of ''Geophysist cum Hydrogeologist', Centre for Ground Water Recharge (CGWR), Raipur, Chhattisgarh
CGWR proposes to carry out groundwater site selection , hydrogeological mapping for tubewell drilling and implemented in Odisha .
Posted on 21 Dec, 2013 07:32 PM

For further details on CGWR , please click here.

For more information on the vacancy, download the brochure from below.

 
Free online course 'Water in a Thirsty World (WITW)', Open2Study, January 13 - February 11, 2014
A course that will take you on the journey of water - how it began, and its availability today in light of global warming and urbanization.
Posted on 21 Dec, 2013 08:50 AM

To know more about the open platform 'Open2Study', click here.

For more information on this online course, please click here.

To register for the same, click here.
Free online course 'Contemporary issues in Ocean Governance (Ocean)', Open2Study, February 2 - March 3, 2014
A course that considers the nature of how the world’s oceans are regulated, how ocean governance has evolved through time and how it actually works.
Posted on 21 Dec, 2013 08:36 AM

To know more about the open platform 'Open2Study', click here.

For more information on this online course, please click here.
Call for applications for 'Training workshop for journalists in Northeast India', Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP), Assam, February 17 - 23, 2014
The objective is to improve creative thinking and effective communication on adaptation to climate change in a local context.
Posted on 17 Dec, 2013 09:51 AM

For more information on the organisers, Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP), please click here.

To apply online for the training workshop, click here.
Climate change hits Northeast bamboo crop
News this week: Climate change hits bamboo crop in the Northeast, people in Himachal reject EIA report on dams on the Satluj and marine pollution results in economic losses.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 15 Dec, 2013 09:18 PM

Climate change affects bamboo production in the Northeast
Bamboo hit by climate change Source: Wikimedia
Troubled waters of the Northeast
Modern development models for the remote hills of the Northeast are replacing age-old conventions thereby creating inequity in the distribution of water.
Samhita Barooah
Posted on 15 Dec, 2013 09:12 PM

On a train journey from Nagaland, a friend and I began talking on the subject of water. He said to me, "You have so much water in the Brahmaputra Valley and your lands are always flooded but we have to struggle for a drop of water in the hills".
Hills of Northeast India Source: Wikipedia
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