Climate change may reduce banana yield in India
Continued global warming may adversely affect banana yield in India by 2050. With 29% of the world’s production, India is the world’s biggest producer of banana. But the decline in…
Category: Climate change
IIT Jodhpur fabricates a highly sensitive hydrogen sensor
A research team from IIT Jodhpur and IIT Hyderabad have together fabricated a sensor that can detect hydrogen gas even when present at extremely low concentration of 1 ppm. The…
Irrigation, agriculture shift rainfall to northwest India, IIT Bombay finds
IIT Bombay researchers have found the reason why the summer monsoon rainfall has shifted towards northwest India and intensification of extreme rainfall is seen over central India during the month…
TIFR desalinates seawater without using electricity
TIFR researchers have produced gold nanoparticles that can absorb sunlight over the entire visible region and even the near infrared light. They used such gold nanoparticles to absorb energy from…
IITM Pune develops model to predict heat waves three weeks in advance
Researchers at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology have developed a model that can predict heat waves three weeks in advance. It can predict the date of onset, duration and…
Bhubaneswar shows how urbanisation can increase local temperature
While Cuttack and Bhubaneswar have become 0.5 degree C hotter due to urbanisation during the period 2001-2010, warming in smaller cities and towns has been relatively less, researchers at IIT Bhubaneswar…
Recognising Anthropocene as an epoch is a caution to humanity
The overwhelming vote by the Anthropocene Working Group to recognise Anthropocene as a new epoch is a grim reminder to humanity that failure to end destructive activities will irrevocably change…
Scientists vote to recognise Anthropocene as a new epoch
A 34-member panel of the Anthropocene Working Group voted to designate Anthropocene as the new geologic epoch. The vote signals the end of the Holocene Epoch which began 11,700 years…
