Your Environment This Week: Rise of India's tigers, Environmental games, Heat surge in Kerala
This week’s environment and conservation news stories rolled into one.
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The rise, fall, and return of India’s tigers
While the tiger habitat significantly expanded, local extinctions still occurred due to urbanisation, conflict, and poaching during 2006 to 2018.
Gaming on for environmental awareness
Environmental games offer experiential learning, making ecological issues easier to understand.
Adani withdraws from controversial wind power project
A proposed wind power project, in the north of Sri Lanka, which ran into strong opposition from environmentalists, has come to halt.
More climate literacy and diversification could help tribal millet farmers adapt to impacts
Schemes promoting millets may inadvertently lead to homogenisation towards preferred varieties, experts say.
Local participation key in solving turtle nesting riddle
Solo nesting of the turtles in new locations is also capturing attention, raising hopes among conservationists.
The Semialata plant is a game changer for lac farming in Jharkhand amid climate and migration challenges
The plant is emerging as a good host plant for lac insects as more farmers, especially women, prefer it for its easy maintenance.
Kerala’s early heat surge signals climate shift
Kerala, known for its clear skies and pleasant weather at the start of the year, is facing an unusually early hot season this year.
Food-borne bugs and their links with climate change come into focus
Environmental changes triggered by global warming may result in increased spread of food-borne microbes.
Tiny creatures that lug their homes [Commentary]
Soft-bodied creatures often survive by protecting themselves with unique homes that some even lug around during their entire lives. Little-known home-lugging creatures such as beach hermit crabs may be silently disappearing, mainly because of human ignorance.
Wildfires and the forgotten science of community forest management [Commentary]
Traditional ecological knowledge, as seen in India’s jhum cultivation, promotes a balanced, adaptive approach to forestry that integrates human activity with natural cycles, preventing uncontrolled fires and enhancing biodiversity.