Who’re water diviners?

Shubham
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Belief, value go better depths to maintain unscientific water divining apply

Water divining, a standard technique standard in onerous rock terrains, is apparently used to detect groundwater with out scientific strategies.

Progressive air-to-water tech utilizing liquid desiccant makes reasonably priced, renewable water

Bengaluru-based Uravu Labs employs a know-how that makes use of a liquid desiccant to bottle atmospheric water for consumption.

Mugger crocodiles could also be physiologically burdened in disturbed habitats

Air pollution, urbanisation, habitat fragmentation and human-animal battle, could also be resulting in physiological stress in mugger crocodiles.

Fading ties with Mumbai’s mudskippers

Coal mining degraded 35% of place of origin cowl in India’s central coal belt

Repurposing and restoring mined-out land is rising as the following frontier for the power transition.

Poor monsoon rainfall hits paddy farmers in components of north India

There was a declining development of southwest monsoon rainfall over the Indo-Gangetic Plains for the previous decade.

Halfway through the monsoon season, several states across the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) have experienced deficient rainfall. Image by Nidhi Jamwal.

Uniting conventional knowledge with trendy science, barefoot ecologists document local weather impacts

Group members monitoring ecology within the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve combine conventional information with trendy scientific strategies to observe local weather impacts on their forests, rivers, and farms.

[Commentary] Challenges in scaling pure farming with bio-input useful resource centres

The central authorities plans to arrange hundreds of bio-inputs useful resource centres to assist farmers transition to pure farming.

Farmer distributes fertiliser in the farm. Image by EqualStock IN via Pexels (CC).

Indus river dolphins in troubled waters

Inhabitants of dolphins in Beas river are underneath menace attributable to unintentional entanglement in fishing gear and altering river flows.

Excessive prices, combined outcomes problem nano urea use in farming

Indian agriculture depends closely on urea for fertilising crops, leading to environmental and financial impacts over time.

Granular urea, traditionally used in fields to meet the nitrogen needs of crops. Farmers typically apply two bags of conventional urea per acre. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0).

 

Experimenting with biogas from cactus

Cactus analysis in Jhansi goals to spice up the manufacturing of the spineless fodder cacti to enhance farmers’ earnings. A small-scale research with cactus slurry achieved as much as 61% methane content material in biogas manufacturing.

Spineless cactus bearing fruits in Jhansi. The fruits of the cactus, called prickley pear are eaten when ripe. Photo -Shuchita Jha



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