IIT Bombay’s new web application, IMPART, allows researchers to track changing water surface temperatures and can help to track climate change

Ecology

Patancheru, Telangana
21 Jun 2022

Researchers study rainfall and soil-loss to find potential rain water harvesting zones in Indian semi-arid regions

Dehradun
10 Jun 2022

Based on thousands of records in the past 270 years, researchers find patterns of marine mammal strandings over time and locations along the Indian coast. 

Lucknow
27 May 2022

A research team records the distribution of pollen fossils of Crotonoideae species from different regions in India. 

Bhopal
10 May 2022

The beginning of seasonal monsoon and other geophysical changes due to the Himalayan uplift caused diverse species of ginger lily.

Bengaluru
29 Apr 2022

Although Sarus Cranes are monogamous, a new study shows a novel social unit called trios, where an additional adult is found along with two adults. 

Pune
27 Apr 2022

Diatoms — single-celled algae — can be indicators of the health of Karnataka’s rare Myristica swamps

Bengaluru
22 Apr 2022

Dinesh C. Sharma’s ‘Indian Innovation - 100 ideas that transformed India’ is an inspiring book documenting all key innovations post-independence in India.

Bengaluru
12 Apr 2022

Not more than two decades ago, I played with snails on rainy days and would see them crawling abundantly on plants. My friends and I would collect them in glass bottles, treating them as pets.

It appears that snails have almost vanished from our gardens. Lush green landscapes and trees have dwindled to become a few patches of green separated by tall buildings in between.

Bengaluru
16 Mar 2022

Study finds that considering multiple social interactions as a whole instead of individual interactions helps identify the potential queen of a wasp colony. 

Madurai
4 Feb 2022

Researchers from IIT B root for restoring Madurai’s historical water tank system to address the region’s water woes