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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)
Touched by very little water
Anupam Mishra talks about how the desert societies of Rajasthan have managed their scarce water resources for over 1000 years.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 01 Aug, 2013 11:54 AM

Author and conservationist, Anupam Mishra has spent decades promoting water conservation and management. Through his travels across various states of India, he has been studying and teaching the time-tested techniques of rainwater harvesting.
Kunds and tankas have been used to collect water
Call for Abstracts - Fourth National Research Conference on Climate Change,Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
This event, the fourth in the series, intends to nurture and enhance a dedicated network of climate researchers
Posted on 30 Jul, 2013 12:49 PM

Organisers
IIT Madras
Post-monsoon celebrations
This photo essay captures the range of activities post-monsoon in rural areas of Maharashtra including the celebration of the Vatapoornima festival.
Aarti Kelkar -Khambete
Posted on 25 Jul, 2013 04:38 PM

June signals the start of the monsoons in many parts of India. Pune and its surrounding areas in Maharashtra have witnessed heavy showers since the first week of June. The rains let up for a weeks time during which I visited a few places on the outskirts of Pune city.
Ready to plough his fields
Free the river! Let it flow!
Flooding in Assam caused by embankments on the mighty Brahmaputra is routine news. It makes the headlines every year but not for long. Political apathy however, continues.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 25 Jul, 2013 12:46 AM

Floods are an annual event in the north-eastern state of Assam. The newspapers expect it at this time of year, every year. For the world, this is routine, something not even worth a front-page story like the Uttarakhand floods maybe because it does not involve pilgrims or religion.
The Brahamputra in spate (Photos: Amita Bhaduri)
Call for suggestions, solidarity & support for the Uttarakhand catastrophe, HIMCON & Himalaya Seva Sangh, New Delhi
A community response and suggestions gathered while interacting with the mountain communities that have suffered badly due to the recent flash floods and landslides in the Himalayan region
Posted on 23 Jul, 2013 09:52 AM

Invitation from

Himalaya Seva Sangh & HIMCON  

Background picture

The recent catastrophe due to massive flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand Himalayas caused severe damage to land, life and livelihoods 
The Dongria Kondhs' tribals bring the judiciary down on its knees
Niyamgiri tribals' decision to veto mining, environment degradation's effect on the country's GDP and Maharashtra's carbon trading scheme are the highlights of this week's news.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 22 Jul, 2013 01:40 AM

Dongria Kondh tribals stand firm against mining of Niyamgiri
Celebration Dance (Source: Wikimedia)
Applications invited for Research Fellowship Scheme, Sitaram Jindal Foundation
A scheme to encourage and inspire the talent and recognize excellence in innovation and research.
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 06:03 PM

Offered by 

Sitaram Jindal Foundation  (SJ Foundation)

About the scheme

The Fellowship is for supporting individual investigators in research and development leading to applications of innovations

Fields of research
Training programme on Sustainable Community Based Sanitation,Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination Society, Bangalore
A programme that aims to provide knowledge and skills to NGOs and social facilitators to coordinate various social and technical interventions
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 02:13 PM

Organiser details

Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society

Venue

Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS)
Survey # 205, Kommagaffa Road
Bandemath,Kengeri Satellite Town
Bangalore

Objective of the conference
CDDS
Invite to a book release 'Ecological and Environmental reporting in India- A handbook for media,NGOs and people', Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai
A handbook by Santosh Shintre, an active environmental journalist
Posted on 15 Jul, 2013 01:14 PM

Organisers

Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)

Venue

BNHS, Hornbill House, 
Dr Salik Ali Chowk
Shahid Bhagt Singh Marg
Mumbai-1

About the book
BNHS, India
Nalanda farmers get organic certificate; export veggies to Europe
Nalanda farmers' organic certification, Orissa government action against mining and SMS advisory for farmers are highlights of this week's news.
Ravleen Kaur
Posted on 14 Jul, 2013 09:20 PM

Nalanda farmers set to go global with their veggies
Organic Awards (source: Wikimedia)
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