Manu Moudgil, Author at Ecologise

CLIMATE CRISIS

Storms in India: The Science of Severity

16th May 2018

Around 127 people died and 300 others injured during the severe dust and thunderstorms that shook north India on May 2; wind speeds of 126 kilometres making it the strongest storm in six years. The world may see more such freak storms due to rising temperatures; reducing pollution and protecting forests are perfect preventive measures….

CLIMATE CRISIS

Debal Deb: ‘We have more hardy, nutritious grains than GM can offer’

26th April 2017

From India Water Portal: Records show there were 1.10 lakh varieties of rice in India in 1965. After the Green Revolution, which pushed for hybrid varieties, less than 7,000 remain. Debal Deb, who has conserved 1,200 climate-resilient rice varieties, speaks on the need to conserve traditional seeds and why we don’t need genetically modified ones….

Kolkata's endangered wetlands provide invaluable ecological benefits to the city

ALTERNATIVES

When money does grow on trees

11th March 2017

The services provided by Nature mostly bypasses markets, escapes pricing and defies valuation. Consider this. A 50-year-old tree provides services like oxygen, water recycling, soil conservation and pollution control worth Rs 23 lakh. Cutting and selling it fetches only Rs 50,000. Yet due to ignorance olf its ecological services, felling a tree seems more profitable….

Conserve/Resist

Ritwick Dutta: ‘We need to have a selfish interest in environment’

1st February 2017

Ritwick Dutta, noted environment lawyer and founder of the highly accomplished Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE), received the Bhagirath Prayas Samman, an award that recognises efforts towards protection and conservation of rivers. Manu Moudgil caught up with him on his journey so far and how we can further expand the constituency of environment….

Aadi Kumbruka with various types of legumes, millets, oilseeds and corns grown on his farm.

India Water Portal

CLIMATE CRISIS

Tribals in Odisha humour changing skies with mixed platters

26th January 2016

Nauri grows 72 varieties of crop on his two-acre farm. “The benefit of mixed cropping is that even in extreme weather events, we get something out of the field. Some crops work well in drought, others in flood. Compare this with mono cropping which won’t even yield enough to eat in severe drought”, he explains….