IIT Palakkad study shows how different indices used to predict drought combined with effects fof climate change can lead to different climate predictions for the future

Ecology

Bengaluru

Not more than two decades ago, I played with snails on rainy days and would see them crawling abundantly on plants. My friends and I would collect them in glass bottles, treating them as pets.

It appears that snails have almost vanished from our gardens. Lush green landscapes and trees have dwindled to become a few patches of green separated by tall buildings in between.

Bengaluru

Study finds that considering multiple social interactions as a whole instead of individual interactions helps identify the potential queen of a wasp colony. 

Madurai

Researchers from IIT B root for restoring Madurai’s historical water tank system to address the region’s water woes 

Bengaluru

Tropical savannas, replete with large expanses of grasslands, are often misclassified as wastelands.

Bengaluru

Researchers find a greater abundance but an altered epiphyte community in selectively logged forests

Jaipur

A study finds that electric vehicles are less intrusive to animals during safaris.

Mumbai

A study finds that the rapidly expanding land use of Mumbai is driving the region’s remaining wildlife into the remnant forest fringes.

Mumbai

A porous liquid composite can convert adsorbed carbon dioxide from industrial effluents to calcium carbonate.

Bengaluru

The detailed analysis of the stomach contents of two frogs provide evidence that frogs do play an important role in protecting crops against insects. 

Mumbai

Researchers discuss the challenges in studying human-wildlife coexistence and the way forward.