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LANDS OF INDIA Persistent Organic Pollutants-The Dirty Dozen

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LANDS OF INDIA Update: Degradation Watch

With increasing degradation of environment and bottlenecks in the implementation of policies and laws, there is a need for awareness and proactive thinking among the masses. Here is an update on some of the contemplative issues that caught our attention.

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IN BRIEF Update-Waste Watch

Waste management is an essential and basic service that needs social engineering and technical interventions. We need to streamline waste management policies in the country for the upkeep of an environmentally sound nation. As responsible citizens we are demanded to recycle and reuse-and keep a lookout for illegal and unhealthy dumping practices.

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INDIA'S OUTDOORS Mysore Learns to Map

LIGHTS opened its doors to the most interested and vibrant school teachers of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, to train them and through them the GenX, about the dynamical GIS, GPS and remote sensing techniques.

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IN BRIEF Wastelands-Land Degradation

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THE WATER WORLD Financing Climate

Financing climate change is an effort to help countries especially the developing ones to cope with the challenges of global warming. Developed countries have the onerous responsibility to provide sufficient funds in order to equip the poorer nations to mitigate climate change.

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INDIA'S OUTDOORS Chhattisgarh's Past Revealed

The Kotumsar caves are well known for its stalactite and stalagmite formations and hold the key to climate change studies as also many precious cavernicole species that are in urgent need of conservation.

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INDIA'S OUTDOORS Rediscovered-A vulnerable Spiderwort

An endemic species of spiderwort thought to be lost from the forested realms of Western Ghats has again been found in the wild. All efforts are being made to conserve this rare plant that holds great medicinal values.

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AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Climate Change and Indian Agriculture

Over 60 percent of India’s population depend on the agricultural sector which constitutes about 14.3 per cent of India’s gross domestic product, 2010-11, as per the Central Statistics Office, New Delhi. Despite technological interventions, about two thirds of India’s agricultural area remain rainfed and vulnerable to present day climate variability. The implications of climate change is yet not very clear, although scholars agree that global climate change will lead to greater unpredictability of weather conditions at local levels.

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AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Medicinal Plants and Climate Change

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