Brickbats for farmlands

Kilns reduce soil nutrition, stunt vegetation

As told to Parliament (April 5, 2022): India’s doctor-population ratio is 1:834

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Lest mountain slips

Wireless sensor network to predict landslides

A lot of chaff

That's what the national agricultural policy is all about

Planetary waves, soil-moisture deficit likely caused 2021 heat dome over western North America: Study

A burst of heat generated upwind of the region in early June 2021 contributed to an initial temperature peak  

Smart farming

How to improve yield in organic farming

Soil as seismic radar

Chemical changes in the soil hold clues

Fixing nitrogen

New study may help reduce global dependence on fertilisers

Coming of a desert

Farming sand

Bt's soil chemistry

Shaken and stirred

As told to Parliament (December 14, 2023): Over 500,000 tonnes of e-waste collected and processed in 2021-22

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Microbes hold the key

Bacteria could play a crucial role in restoring fertile prairies in North America

Fertilizer subsidy fuelling food shortage

Silt spells trouble for Sukhna lake

Chemical imbalance

Waters of the Sunderbans are turning hostile to estuarine life

Flooding out arsenic

The monsoons help decontaminate paddy soils

Saline solution: How MGNREGA helped Nagapattinam recover from the 2004 tsunami

Two villages in the Tamil Nadu district fought soil salinity through MGNREGA

Depleting cover

Forest cover in Europe is decreasing at an alarming rate, says a new study

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Spate of neglect

Shrimp lose shine in Bangladesh

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Increasing green cover could trigger the release of carbon trapped in soil

Root out erosion