The Vice-President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar today cautioned that climate change is a ticking time bomb an existential crisis for mankind. “Our planet, once a pristine green heaven, is not a shade of its past. Bled by climate change, triggered by reckless exploitation of natural resources and deforestation, the planet has …
Read More »New study connecting rainfall & CO2 increase can aid future conservation of biodiversity hotspots
The unprecedented global increase in greenhouse gases can decrease rainfall in the equatorial region with associated shift and vegetation, and also replace India’s biodiversity hotspots consisting of evergreen forests in the Western Ghats, northeast India and the Andamans into deciduous forests, shows a new study. Deep time hyperthermal events are considered potential analogs …
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