The unique monsoon onset forecast can provide valuable insights that the government can leverage for strategic planning and disaster response, it adds.
Summer time relative humidity has increased by 5-10 per cent this decade leading to excessive heat stress in Hyderabad and other metros. This increase is nullifying the drop in night temperatures in Hydeabad and Delhi too, a study by the Centre for Science and Environment says.
She was working under the supervision of Dr. Rani Ratna Prabha, presented a research paper on ‘Women as Ecological Caretakers: Transformation of Gender Roles through Haritha Karma Sena (HKS) in Kerala’
The KNP in Assam, a corridor for immigration of members of the Indo-Malayan fauna into the Indian sub-region, is a critical reserve for tropical species, having served as a gene reservoir for these taxa during glacial periods.
Murmu also launched a first-of-its-kind venture capital fund aimed at promoting entrepreneurship among the STs by providing concessional finance.
She said tribal entrepreneurs would benefit from the scheme and contribute to India's self-reliance.
As many as 718 snow leopards were reported as part of the first-ever scientific exercise that was carried out by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).