The Great Vanishing
Mihir Godbole, Abi Tamim Vanak, Iravatee Majgaonkar & Nikita Sabnis Sanctuary Nature Foundation | June 6, 2022 “Grasslands are the ‘common’ lands of the community and while there have been robust traditional institutions ensuring their sustainable management in the past, today, due to take-over by government or breakdown of traditional institutions, they are the responsibility […]
Restoration of Ecosystem: Have Tree Planting Efforts Borne Fruit?
Abi T. Vanak, Anuja Malhotra The Hindu | June 5, 2022 In a recent article, the author and journalist Manu Joseph used the term “Low-stakes niceness” to describe the act of feeding animals that most Indians indulge in. We will borrow his term to extend it to another favourite activity of the environmentally conscious Indian […]
Why Planting More Trees is a Lazy Solution to the Crisis of Climate Change
Karishma Shelar & Anuja Malhotra Scroll | June 5, 2022 The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its sixth assessment report released in August, reiterated its analysis of the role played by human-induced activities in contributing to catastrophic heatwaves, droughts and cyclones. It noted that in 2019, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was […]
Tree Planting in Open Ecosystems Has Few Benefits
Iravatee Majgaonkar Hindustan Time | June 5, 2022 The idea of restoration and protection of the earth’s environment instantly elicits mental images of tree planting. The greener the environment, the healthier it must be. This is also in line with the commitment by the ministry of environment, forests and climate change of the Indian government, […]
Our Vision for Jaltol
We created Jaltol, an open-source tool, to offer easy access to data to help understand, diagnose and intervene better. Veena Srinivasan Medium | May 22, 2022
What is ‘Agri-Rain’? Field Notes From Anantapur
Under protective irrigation, tankers are used to transport water from the local village tank to farms during critical dry spells. Lakshmi Pranuti, Surabhi Singh, Veena Srinivasan
India’s Missing Wolves
Abi T. Vanak, Mihir Godbole The Hindu | May 24, 2022 ‘Wolf! Wolf!’ The driver in the vehicle facing us silently mouthed, and pointed to his right. Within seconds, a pack of three magnificent Indian grey wolves appeared in the savanna grasslands, less than 100 metres from us. A large male, followed by what appeared […]
Ecosystem Restoration is Good for Your Health
Anuja Malhotra, Abi T. Vanak Project Syndicate | May 9, 2002 Humanity currently faces multiple, interlinked existential crises. The catastrophic consequences of climate change, ecological degradation, and biodiversity loss have cascading knock-on effects on human health and well-being. As the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates, ecosystem damage can contribute significantly to a global public-health emergency. But scientists […]
Why We Are Paying for Peer Review
We need high-quality reviews of our work to ensure that what we are doing is backed by science. Veena Srinivasan Medium | April 10, 2022
Crowdmapping Bengaluru’s Vanishing Lakes
Despite lakes serving an important ecological function, Bengaluru’s government bodies that govern these lakes do not have comprehensive, updated, public records of all lakes IndiaSpends | 7 March, 2022
