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Dec 10, 2024 | 
idronline.org | GBSNP Varma |India Spend
Microplastics are an invisible pollutant, affecting everything from ocean life to human health. Here’s why India should be taking this issue seriously. They’re the size of a sand grain. At smaller than 5 millimetres (mm), microplastics enter us through the air we breathe, through food we eat and even through skin. They are manufactured at that size for industrial and commercial use such as pellets and personal care products, or they are the result of macroplastics (above 5 mm) breaking down.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
indiaspend.com | GBSNP Varma
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh: They’re the size of a sand grain. At smaller than 5 millimetres (mm), microplastics enter us through the air we breathe, through food we eat and even through skin. They are manufactured at that size for industrial and commercial use such as pellets and personal care products, or they are the result of macroplastics (above 5 mm) breaking down. Research (such as here and here) has shown their ubiquity everywhere and in everything.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
nature.com | GBSNP Varma
For nearly 200 years, the king cobra was believed to be a single species found across south and southeast Asia. A new study1 has revealed that the renowned reptile comprises four distinct species, each independently evolved and confined to separate regions.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thehansindia.com | GBSNP Varma
India is a world leader in plastic emissions, and the cost to health and the environment is enormous, recent studies find. India’s highest plastic pollution is “a consequence of having a high population but also having many areas without waste collection coverage”.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nature.com | GBSNP Varma
Centipedes originated in the ancient supercontinent Gondwana and evolved in southern India before crawling their way into Australia and then to the rest of the world, a study by researchers at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology in Hyderabad reveals1. One of the authors of the paper, Jahnavi Joshi, explains that they found about 10 new species of the centipedes Scutigeromorpha had originated in peninusular India, where previously only two species had been reported.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
nature.com | GBSNP Varma |Sahana Ghosh
New studies reveal that Indians are increasingly aware of climate change, but there are significant differences in perceptions and understanding across the country. Despite a growing recognition of global warming and its causes, public opinion in India is shaped by a complex interplay of scientific messaging, local realities, and socio-economic factors, the studies found.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | GBSNP Varma
Around 40 million years ago, the ancestors of cobras and kraits — a snake super family called Elapoidea — originated in Asia before its descendants crossed to Africa via the Tethys Sea, a new study says1. The work challenges the prevailing theory that this family of snakes originated in Africa and dispersed. Elapoidea is a diverse grouping of intriguing snake species, including cobras, mambas, kraits, king cobras, sea snakes, sand snakes and burrowing asps.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
indiaspend.com | GBSNP Varma
Vijaywada: A 2023 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change, warned that global warming will likely exceed the limit ofbefore the end of the century, against what countries had agreed at the 21st Conference of Parties in Paris (COP) in 2015. This increase in temperature will lead to more frequent and intense climate-related risks like heat waves and floods.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
fountainink.in | GBSNP Varma |Michael Erard
He likes his place clean. He looks like a man who has lived a long time. In fact, he is 75, and the longest presence in Goshpada Kshetram in Kovvur, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. This is a place of temples and of goshalas. Situated on the banks of the Godavari, Kovvur reverberates with invocations of gods and incantations for their mercy.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
fountainink.in | GBSNP Varma
One, Two, Three… InfinityHere it doesn’t mean the title of George Gamow’s book but the number of tabs you–OK, we–open in our browser. Anybody who believes he is not into this is a Martian; worse, you’re a landlubber. Your browser is a portal to your own world, and also, at times, the digitized version of the actual world. Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox and many others take your portable self to wherever you want to ride through and into.
