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How Can We Build an Early Warning System for Avian Flu in India?

Sahana Ghosh 21/03/2021

Regular health monitoring and sampling of wild birds in...

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Explained: What Are Wetlands and Why Are They Important?

Aditi Tandon 28/01/2021

Wetlands are areas that are inundated with water permanently...

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Dredging Chennai’s Pallikaranai Marsh Is an Ecologically Bad Idea – Here Is Why

G. Sundarrajan 09/12/2020

The move will not just destroy the marsh's biodiversity,...

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Kabartal Wetland Becomes Bihar’s First Ramsar Site – and India’s 39th

The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the...

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World Wetlands Day: What Is a Wetland, and Why Does India Need so Many?

Nivedita Khandekar 02/02/2020

Wetlands are typically shallow so sunlight can penetrate the...

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The World Needs More Swamps to Fight Climate Change

William Moomaw, Gillian Davies and Max Finlayson 20/09/2018

Wetlands are some of the world's most undervalued weapons...

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Kashmir’s Dwindling Wular Lake Threatens Livelihood

Athar Parvaiz 12/09/2017

With the water bodies shrinking in size due to...