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Fruit flies selected for dispersal evolved traits — increased aggression, exploration and activity — which together is more likely to make them more invasive, IISER Pune researchers have found. In response…
IISER researchers have been able to show that fruit flies selected for dispersal for as long as 69 generations have evolved traits — increased aggression, exploration and activity — which together is…
Researchers at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune have coined a new term — mini-cloud burst — to define rainfall in excess of 50 mm in two consecutive hours. While extreme rainfall of over…
Researchers at IISER Pune found that E. coli subjected to different stresses simultaneously and in a unpredictable manner evolved to tolerate novel stresses that they were never exposed to such as antibiotics and…
Research carried out by IIT Gandhinagar team has found increased groundwater recharge in south India between 1996 and 2016 due to increase in high-intensity rainfall during monsoon. But in the…
Very heavy rainfall lasting for a few hours in urban locations in India has become more intense in the last few decades. Its frequency has increased by two-fold between 1979-2015.…
Urbanisation of Bhubaneswar, a tier-2 city in Odisha, India, has been rapid at 83% in the last 15 years (2000-2014) and this has led to about 89% decrease in dense…
More than 60% of the total 89 urban areas are 1-5 degree C cooler than their surrounding non-urban areas during April and 70% of cities are cooler in May. Between…
