Sarah Iqbal

Sarah Iqbal is a senior research fellow at the department of biochemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, India.

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No Free Lunch: Climate Change Will Briefly Boost Agri Output – And Crop Disease

Sarah Iqbal 29/09/2021

A new study says that as plants may 'migrate'...

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Has Artificial Intelligence ‘Solved’ Biology’s Protein-Folding Problem?

Sarah Iqbal 19/12/2020

Short answer: no, because the protein-folding problem is not...

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We Don’t Have the Data To Say Women Have Fewer COVID-19 Infections

Sarah Iqbal 24/09/2020

The data we have isn't good enough for us...

NASA GRACE, GRACE satellites, groundwater shortage, electricity subsidies, power subsidy, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, groundwater shortage, groundwater depletion, water table, IIT Gandhinagar,

In India’s West, What Explains Groundwater Shortage After Years of More Rain?

Sarah Iqbal 01/01/2020

The answer could lie in the power sector.

groundwater contamination, arsenic, arsenic contamination, uranium, uranium contamination,atta, wheat flour, rice, rice cultivation, Bihar, Patna, heavy metal toxicity, lung cancer, cancer risk, gall bladder cancer, West Bengal, drinking water, irrigation water,

Trouble: In Parts of Bihar, the Amount of Arsenic in Atta Is on the Rise

Sarah Iqbal 30/12/2019

Scientists are tracking arsenic contamination in various food items...

sea-level rise, global heating, climate change, climate emergency, climate crisis, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Climate Central, coastal DEM, LIDAR, light detection and ranging, NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, South Asia, climate risk, extreme climate, global warming, global heating, seawater incursion, salinity incursion, high tide line, seawater intrusion, Bangladesh, cholera, Vibrio cholerae, Latin America, disease epidemic, endemic, coastal flooding,

The World’s Waters Are Rising – but by How Much, and Where?

Sarah Iqbal 13/11/2019

Countries that are more vulnerable to vagaries of the...

tree planting, afforestation, Aarey tree cutting, saplings, carbon dioxide, carbon fixing, climate change, climate emergency, climate crisis, Crowther lab, soil moisture, GLACE-CMIP5, carbon emissions, carbon dioxide fertilization, savannah, grasslands, terrestrial biosphere, land use, land use change, Green India Mission,

Why the Soil and Trees May Not Absorb as Much Carbon as We Think

Sarah Iqbal 23/10/2019

A new study says plant productivity will peak around...