2017-01-31T03:53:56+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
By 2050, India will experience a temperature rise of 1-4°C and rainfall will increase by 9-16 per cent. This will have a detrimental effect on farmers. Sensitivity 12 states* have districts that are highly sensitive to climate change Sensitivity is the degree to which a region gets affected by climate-related [...]
2017-01-31T03:54:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials, Environment|
WHENEVER a dictionary of green terms is written, even if it is in English, it will contain at least one Hindi word. And that word is Chipko. The idea that people are prepared to hug trees to save them from being felled excited and enthused [...]
2017-01-03T22:37:58+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
The direct linkages between sanitation and health are evident. The latest study published by World Health Organization (WHO) on October 26, 2016 validates that the value of sanitation cannot be deduced only by the use of improved sanitation facilities but from improving coverage at community level and ensuring better outcomes in [...]
2017-01-03T22:34:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
A tale from the banks of Ganga:- Winters are extremely hectic for Sushma Patel, a vegetable grower in Uttar Pradesh’s Chunar town. Her farm is in the fertile plains of Ganga where people grow three crops a year. But this is the only season when she can grow vegetables. And [...]
2016-12-27T08:58:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
1. Gravitational Waves: Hundred years ago, in 1915, Albert Einstein drafted his paper on the General theory of relativity. With continuum of four dimensional space-time in which gravity is geometric distortion, it also predicted gravitational waves moving through the space-time fabric. […]
2016-12-26T21:48:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
In this excerpt from ‘Can India Grow?’, authors V. Anantha Nageswaran and Gulzar Natarajan drive home the point that decentralisation is imperative to both the execution and formulation of public policy in India Let a million ideas and models proliferate India’s continental size, large population, and vast diversity, coupled with [...]
2016-12-26T21:49:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
December 11, 2016 marked three years from the day on which the Supreme Court delivered amongst its most widely criticised judgments since the turn of the century: Koushal v. Naz Foundation. With the stroke of a pen, India’s LGBT community was cast back into the shadows of illegality after a [...]
2016-12-21T23:00:44+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
The study of coral reefs have had a late beginning. Earlier studies had accounted for only 218 species. Successive surveys made between 2008 and 2013 have reported the occurrence of 519 hard corals in India. […]
2016-12-21T22:55:39+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
With maximum sustainable yield in capture fisheries achieved, technological innovations to increase yields seem imperative. In a recent breakthrough cages that can withstand turbulent seas have been developed and tested successfully by the NIOT. […]
2016-12-21T21:42:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Editorials|
The IMD’s agromet services for farmers are proving to be extremely useful to fight the threat of increasingly frequent climate uncertainties, and helping farmers hold out against extreme temperatures that can cause large-scale crop loss. […]
