Paan is the delicacy among all communities in India. Its cultivation and propagation will serve to strengthen not just the various rituals associated with this leaf but also the families involved in its farming.

Eastern Asia enjoys greater plant diversity due to climate change and habitat variety

Asian floral and faunal species are threatened by fragmentation, physical alteration, habitat loss, pollution, introduction of exotic species and overexploitation of ecosystems. About 20 per cent of

In rural India, malaria continues

Left at the mercy of brokers who dictate the market terms, many cultivators of Gloriosa superba have consumed the plant s poisonous tubers to end their lives

Global warming is likely to be far greater and faster than previous estimates, says the latest report of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. Merely planting more trees won t help

Snow covered plants in the tundra start absorbing carbon dioxide in early spring itself

Climate change is a very slow process, notoriously difficult to understand. Is it happening in India? Residents of some Himalayan towns, where the ecology is known to be very sensitive, observe some clear indications of change. It is getting warmer, the

Water doesn't stick to lotus leaves. Nature has given the plant a self cleaning mechanism. Crack the science of it, and you have the formula for successful industrial products

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