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Australian ecologist Morgan Pratchett said that the GBR is one of the best-managed coral reef systems in the world, but ...
25/07/2023

Australian ecologist Morgan Pratchett said that the GBR is one of the best-managed coral reef systems in the world, but a sustained decline was seen in one of the key metrics of coral health – live coral cover. | Shamsheer Yousaf

Environment Prospects for the Great Barrier Reef Are Bleak 18/07/2023 Shamsheer Yousaf Read Next Diverting Invasive Species To Solve Undernutrition Representative image of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo: Lachlan Rogers/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) This is the second in a three-part series. Read Part 1 | Par...

Living shorelines can also aid the growth of mangroves.While planting mangroves effectively slows coastal degradation, t...
24/07/2023

Living shorelines can also aid the growth of mangroves.

While planting mangroves effectively slows coastal degradation, they may not survive the planting stage at all coastal sites. So, methods to protect newly-planted mangroves have been attempted. | Shamsheer Yousaf

Environment Fusing Nature and Engineering to Save the Coast 17/07/2023 Shamsheer Yousaf Read Next Prospects for the Great Barrier Reef Are Bleak A living shoreline project at the Trinity Center in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina. Photo: North Carolina Coastal Federation This is the first in a thre...

While the revised guidelines focus on aspects of prevention and management of common NCDs, they pass over surgical care....
24/07/2023

While the revised guidelines focus on aspects of prevention and management of common NCDs, they pass over surgical care. The guidelines could have included a scheme for surgical treatments, especially those that should be delivered at the level of district hospitals.

Ritika Shetty and Siddhesh Zadey write:

Government, Health New Guidelines on Non-Communicable Diseases Are Welcome, but Where Is Surgical Care? 20/07/2023 Ritika Shetty and Siddhesh Zadey Read Next Why One Deforestation Solution Has Yet To Stop Massive Tree Loss Representative image. Photo: JAFAR AHMED/Unsplash Globally, non-communicable....

The good news is that if those companies used the same deforestation-free supply lines for their domestic products as th...
24/07/2023

The good news is that if those companies used the same deforestation-free supply lines for their domestic products as they do for, say, their exports to the EU, the potential impact could increase to cover about a third of all deforestation risk. That would be significant.

Eric Lambin and Paul Furumo write:

Environment Why One Deforestation Solution Has Yet To Stop Massive Tree Loss 21/07/2023 Eric Lambin and Paul Furumo, Knowable Magazine Read Next Scientists Find Clue to What Makes Multiple Sclerosis Worse Photo: Knowable Magazine About 3.75 million hectares of primary tropical forests have been clea...

All of the MS-related genetic variants previously discovered helped determine someone’s risk of developing MS. This rece...
24/07/2023

All of the MS-related genetic variants previously discovered helped determine someone’s risk of developing MS. This recent one is the first to give an idea of where patients might fall on the spectrum of disease severity. That’s important when it comes to the development of treatments. | Carla Bleiker

Health Scientists Find Clue to What Makes Multiple Sclerosis Worse 22/07/2023 Carla Bleiker Representative image. Photo: National MS Society, Delaware/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 An international research team has discovered the first genetic variant related to the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS)....

Fish could be used to address undernourishment in developing countries. If the fish is an invasive species in the source...
24/07/2023

Fish could be used to address undernourishment in developing countries. If the fish is an invasive species in the source country, the source and destination countries benefit from this arrangement. | Shamsheer Yousaf

Environment Diverting Invasive Species To Solve Undernutrition 19/07/2023 Shamsheer Yousaf Read Next New Guidelines on Non-Communicable Diseases Are Welcome, but Where Is Surgical Care? Reresentative image. Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard/Flick CC BY NC ND 2.0 This is the third in a three-part ser...

Recently, a panel of scientists at the 6th International EcoSummit in Gold Coast, Australia, in June 2023, concluded tha...
24/07/2023

Recently, a panel of scientists at the 6th International EcoSummit in Gold Coast, Australia, in June 2023, concluded that prospects for the GBR are bleak 50 years from now. Experts believe that the biggest threat to corals is heat stress from climate change. | Shamsheer Yousaf

Environment Prospects for the Great Barrier Reef Are Bleak 18/07/2023 Shamsheer Yousaf Read Next Diverting Invasive Species To Solve Undernutrition Representative image of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo: Lachlan Rogers/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) This is the second in a three-part series. Read Part 1 | Par...

Home to close to 170 million people, the human cost of coastal erosion along India’s shoreline — nearly 5400 kilometres...
24/07/2023

Home to close to 170 million people, the human cost of coastal erosion along India’s shoreline — nearly 5400 kilometres along the mainland, and 2,000 km along the Andaman, Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands — could be tremendous if climate change targets are not met.

Shamsheer Yousaf writes:

Environment Fusing Nature and Engineering to Save the Coast 17/07/2023 Shamsheer Yousaf Read Next Prospects for the Great Barrier Reef Are Bleak A living shoreline project at the Trinity Center in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina. Photo: North Carolina Coastal Federation This is the first in a thre...

Globally, non-communicable diseases are beginning to receive the required attention. Once regarded as a “silent killer” ...
24/07/2023

Globally, non-communicable diseases are beginning to receive the required attention. Once regarded as a “silent killer” of the rich, they have slowly started surpassing communicable diseases as the major cause of death in the developing world.

Ritika Shetty and Siddhesh Zadey write:

Government, Health New Guidelines on Non-Communicable Diseases Are Welcome, but Where Is Surgical Care? 20/07/2023 Ritika Shetty and Siddhesh Zadey Read Next Why One Deforestation Solution Has Yet To Stop Massive Tree Loss Representative image. Photo: JAFAR AHMED/Unsplash Globally, non-communicable....

We reviewed a large number of recent studies and concluded that zero-deforestation commitments as they are currently imp...
24/07/2023

We reviewed a large number of recent studies and concluded that zero-deforestation commitments as they are currently implemented can reduce the risk of tropical deforestation only by a few percent. Even if all exported forest-risk commodities were covered by such commitments, with a very good implementation, this would still be capable of reducing deforestation risk by only about 11%. | Knowable Magazine

Eric Lambin and Paul Furumo write:

Environment Why One Deforestation Solution Has Yet To Stop Massive Tree Loss 21/07/2023 Eric Lambin and Paul Furumo, Knowable Magazine Read Next Scientists Find Clue to What Makes Multiple Sclerosis Worse Photo: Knowable Magazine About 3.75 million hectares of primary tropical forests have been clea...

The genetic variant in question sits between two genes, one of which is involved in repairing damaged cells and the othe...
24/07/2023

The genetic variant in question sits between two genes, one of which is involved in repairing damaged cells and the other in controlling viral infections. Both of these genes are active within the brain and spinal cord. | Carla Bleiker

Health Scientists Find Clue to What Makes Multiple Sclerosis Worse 22/07/2023 Carla Bleiker Representative image. Photo: National MS Society, Delaware/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 An international research team has discovered the first genetic variant related to the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS)....

Around 40% of North Jakarta sits below sea level, with some models estimating that 95% of North Jakarta could be fully s...
17/07/2023

Around 40% of North Jakarta sits below sea level, with some models estimating that 95% of North Jakarta could be fully submerged by 2050. Bangladesh loses 34 square kilometres of land annually, which may increase further with sea level rise.

Closer home, in Odisha, the advancing sea has turned the people of Kendrapara district into coastal-erosion refugees. More villages are at risk of submersion.

Coastal erosion was one of the major issues that an international group of scientists and ecologists discussed at the 6th International EcoSummit, held in June at Gold Coast, Australia.

Shamsheer Yousaf writes:

Environment Fusing Nature and Engineering to Save the Coast 17/07/2023 Shamsheer Yousaf A living shoreline project at the Trinity Center in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina. Photo: North Carolina Coastal Federation Gold Coast (Australia): Around 40% of North Jakarta sits below sea level, with some....

According to climate models, the connection between El Niño and the Indian summer monsoon will intensify in the future, ...
15/07/2023

According to climate models, the connection between El Niño and the Indian summer monsoon will intensify in the future, especially if we continue with high carbon emissions.

This underscores the urgency of wide-ranging adaptation and risk mitigation actions in India.

Chirag Dhara and Roxy Mathew Koll write:

Environment What Will an El Niño Bring Next to India? 15/07/2023 Chirag Dhara and Roxy Mathew Koll Representative image. Photo: Navaneeth Kishor/Flickr CC BY 2.0 India’s monsoon was delayed by three weeks this year. This meant far lower rainfall across the subcontinent in early June and a vicious...

These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group – established in 2009 by the International Commission on Stratig...
14/07/2023

These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group – established in 2009 by the International Commission on Stratigraphy to propose a definition of the concept and to estimate its potential as a unit of geologic time – is hoping to answer.

The group announced on July 11, 2023, that Lake Crawford in Ontario, Canada, had been chosen as the site with the sedimentary record that would be used to define the beginning of the Anthropocene.

What makes this site so special that it holds the dividing line between different geological epochs?

Alejandro Anaya Muñoz writes:

The Sciences A Canadian Lake Holds the Key to the Beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch 14/07/2023 Alejandro Anaya Muñoz Lake Crawford in Ontario. Photo: Laslovarga/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human acti...

Like all other “cold-blooded” or ectothermic animals, cane toads don’t have a limit to their body size like mammals and ...
11/05/2023

Like all other “cold-blooded” or ectothermic animals, cane toads don’t have a limit to their body size like mammals and birds do. They can keep growing their entire lives.

Environment Is ‘Toadzilla’ a Sign of Enormous Cane Toads To Come? 30/01/2023 Lin Schwarzkopf Read Next Eliminating Neglected Diseases in Africa: There Are Good Reasons for Hope The giant cane toad was discovered by ranger Kylee Gray at Cape Conway National Park in Queensland and promptly euthani...

In this age of rapid urban expansion and high population density, nature must be imagined within our city premises, and ...
11/05/2023

In this age of rapid urban expansion and high population density, nature must be imagined within our city premises, and citizens must actively be made stakeholders in protecting these ecosystems.

Environment, Urban Urban Wetlands Are Not Wastelands, They Are Essential for Climate Resilient Cities 03/02/2023 Vikrom Mathur Read Next Will NASA’s Electric Plane X-57 Advance Emissions-Free Aviation? Pallikkaranai Marsh in Chennai. Representative image. Photo: senthilvasanm/Flickr CC BY CC BY 2....

But our new study, published in Science, suggests that even the giant teeth of Tyrannosaurus would have been sheathed in...
11/05/2023

But our new study, published in Science, suggests that even the giant teeth of Tyrannosaurus would have been sheathed in scaly lips.

History, The Sciences New Research Shows Tyrannosaurus Rex’s Enormous Teeth Were Covered With Lips 06/04/2023 Mark P. Witton Read Next Revealed: Effect of Warm and Cold Spells in the Arctic on India’s Monsoon Photo: Mark Witton, Author provided Picture a Tyrannosaurus rex, that ferocious yet one...

Warm Arctic conditions were linked to intense rainfall over the Indian subcontinent while cold conditions in the Arctic ...
11/05/2023

Warm Arctic conditions were linked to intense rainfall over the Indian subcontinent while cold conditions in the Arctic were associated with weak spells of rain over the Indian subcontinent over the past 1,000 years.

Environment Revealed: Effect of Warm and Cold Spells in the Arctic on India’s Monsoon 07/04/2023 Sahana Ghosh Read Next Study Finds ‘Surprising’ Increase in Atmospheric Concentrations of Five CFCs Representative image. Photo: Mohd Danish Ansari/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Warm and cold cli...

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