Pragathi Ravi

Mar 5, 2025 | 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.

Feb 24, 2025 | 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.

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.

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.

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.