Pragathi Ravi

New York

Writer and Journalist at Freelance

Environment journalist @nyuniversity. Grantee @pulitzercentre, @earthjournalism, @TRF. Former Urban fellow @iihs

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Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants May Lower Crop Yields in India

3 weeks ago | eos.org | Pragathi Ravi

Coal-fired power plants in India—responsible for generating 73.4% of the country’s electricity—are bad for the country’s wheat. A new study shows that nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emitted from the plants can affect agricultural productivity on farms up to 100 kilometers away and reduce crop yields for wheat and rice in particular.
water Archives - Eos

1 month ago | eos.org | Pragathi Ravi |Rebecca Owen |Nathaniel Scharping |Grace van Deelen

Posted inNews A new study maps and ranks the largest, longest-lasting, and most severe multiyear droughts from 1980 to 2018.
How do researchers study DNA that is more than 1000 years old?

1 month ago | scienceline.org | Pragathi Ravi

In the 2000s, an exhibit of the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo from Kenya that chowed down on 35 construction workers in the late 1890s was revived at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. The museum’s assistant collections manager, Thomas Gnoske, wanted to decode their prey history. To do this, the DNA extracted from the tooth cavities of these maneless male lions became Gnoske’s best friend — as did scientists analyzing prey dynamics.
Can Fish Farms Sequester Carbon Permanently?

1 month ago | savingseafood.org | Pragathi Ravi |Ambrook Research

February 24, 2025 — As a data scientist and geochemist, Mojtaba Fakhraee has spent much of his career investigating and strategizing unusual methods of carbon capture. His most recent project, developing a safe model for increasing iron sulphide on fish farms, may be the mostFakhraee, an assistant professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut, recently published the results of his research.
Cover Cropping May Not Be Cash Crop Panacea

Dec 10, 2024 | m.farms.com | Pragathi Ravi

By Pragathi RaviFor years, farmers have practiced cover cropping—growing crops between harvest seasons to nourish the soil and ready it for the succeeding cash crops. But cover crops could be robbing some soils of their moisture in arid and semiarid regions, researchers report. The global meta-analysis was led by Bradley O.
Cover Cropping May Not Be Cash Crop Panacea

Dec 10, 2024 | eos.org | Pragathi Ravi

For years, farmers have practiced cover cropping—growing crops between harvest seasons to nourish the soil and ready it for the succeeding cash crops. But cover crops could be robbing some soils of their moisture in arid and semiarid regions, researchers report. The global meta-analysis was led by Bradley O.
New Solar Panel Project in Maharashtra Puts Fishing Communitiy At Risk

Oct 16, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Pragathi Ravi |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty

As the June sun shines bright, River Godavari laps up against the banks of Nathsagar in Paithan, Maharashtra. Chhaya Subhash Kuchir ambles out of her bamboo home to survey her catch. It is late morning. She returned from her fishing expedition five hours ago. “In the evening I lower the net and I pull it out at 5 am the next morning,” she says. Her catch of 5 to 6 kilos of tilapia fish fetches her an average of Rs.20 to Rs.30 a kilo every day.
New Solar Panel Project in Maharashtra Puts Fishing Communitiy At Risk

Oct 16, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Pragathi Ravi |Rama Bijapurkar |Mathangi Krishnamurthy |Sujoy Chakravarty

As the June sun shines bright, River Godavari laps up against the banks of Nathsagar in Paithan, Maharashtra. Chhaya Subhash Kuchir ambles out of her bamboo home to survey her catch. It is late morning. She returned from her fishing expedition five hours ago. “In the evening I lower the net and I pull it out at 5 am the next morning,” she says. Her catch of 5 to 6 kilos of tilapia fish fetches her an average of Rs.20 to Rs.30 a kilo every day.
Ranjit Hoskote’s Translation of Mir Taqi Mir: An Attempt of Failure

Oct 16, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Ranjit Hoskote |Amitabha Bagchi |Pragathi Ravi |Mitul Kajaria

Let me admit that I am a votary of the following falsifiable proposition that is almost a cliché among those who follow Urdu poetry: A great poet creates a new idiom for the language. This proposition yields the following corollary for the translator: The translation of a great poet, especially a translation that positions itself as a presentation of the great poet to the target language’s audience, must create a new idiom in the target language.
India’s Demographic Dividend: Six Types of Youth Shaping the Nation’s Future

Oct 15, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Peter Ronald deSouza |Ashish Ranjan |Amitabha Bagchi |Pragathi Ravi

In 2006 we published a book titled Indian Youth in a Transforming World: Attitudes and Perceptions. It was based on the first-ever opinion survey conducted in India of 5,000 youth from across the country. We sought their views on many different aspects of their lives, from family and social networks to leisure and lifestyle, to trust and circles of belonging, to their anxieties and aspirations.