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India needs strategy for conserving landscapes humans, wildlife share: Study
India needs a biodiversity strategy that includes conserving landscapes that humans and wildlife share since only 15% of the country’s top conservation priority areas are covered under the protected area network, a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Sustainability has recommended.
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Team of scientists conduct study to help India meet the 30x30 biodiversity conservation targets
A team of scientists across academia, research, policy and conservation NGOs have conducted a prioritisation analysis to help India meet the 30x30 biodiversity conservation targets. The 30x30 biodiversity conservation refers to conserving biodiversity on 30% of the planet by the year 2030.
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Scientists working on tracking COVID, dengue through sewage surveillance
Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology and TIGS-Bengaluru are working on a standardised protocol for effective sewage surveillance
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A Bengaluru group is knee-deep in wastewater—looking for secrets on future diseases
Ecologist Farah Ishtiaq and her team are tracking viruses and diseases through Bangalore's underbelly. Their wastewater-based epidemiology project is catching attention.
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One Health Bengaluru City Consortium launched
One Health is a multi-sectoral approach that takes into consideration human, animal, environmental health and the interconnectivity and interdependence of these three elements.
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JNTBGRI researchers unravel the mystery behind the ‘shooting’ droplets from Theepacha
A recent study suggests the source of the droplets is not the liana as is commonly believed, but the Aloka depressa, a leafhopper that feeds on sap from the kidney-shaped leaves of its host.
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Life and work of physicist T S G Sastry archived at National Centre for Biological Science
Said to be the first non-biology collection at the NCBS, documents related to Sastry that were donated by his family members have been archived and made public on March 15.
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