Author: Abinaya Kalyanasundaram

22MAR

Out of Bounds

Have we pushed the Earth beyond habitable conditions?   Twenty four years ago, Govindasamy Bala was a young physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA. He and his colleague, Ken Caldeira, were carrying out research using a comprehensive climate model. For the first time, they wanted to test an improbable and controversial […]

09DEC

Growing a Forest of People

Student conference has been fostering India’s conservation community for 14 years   “How many of you have been chased by an elephant?” is not a typical question you’d expect to hear at a conference. But it seems to fit right in at this one; many people raise their hands, some laugh. Standing at the front […]