TIME REMAINING TO ACHIEVE CLIMATE ABUNDANCE
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Times Evoke
‘Small fireflies light up entire forests with their glow — but they perish facing artificial lights’
'A positive IOD can enable a normal Indian monsoon'
Earth's cloud computing
‘Over millions of years, mountains, ice sheets and oceans shaped the Indian monsoon’
‘Butterflies migrate with the rains, flying over mountains and against the winds’
‘Plants are evolving ways to slow down global warming — but we must let them remain intact’
‘Our lives depend on plants — we must have plant literacy to understand climate change’
‘Like millets, baobab trees travelled from Africa to India — and even to Australia’
‘Ancient flower fossils can have beautifully intact petals’
God save the green
‘Environmental photographers can help us imagine how a world without wildlife will look’
How does your garden grow?
‘The English garden symbolised conquest — and India’s will to have its freedom’
‘Growing a garden is an act of scientific discovery — they offer us beauty to cabbages’
‘Parks must grow equity by including the urban poor’
‘Fungi reflect Earth’s incredible history — they power plant life but face human impacts now’
‘Writing of India’s natural wonders helps save these’
‘Nature’s fragrances shape the meaning of ‘home’ in our minds’
‘Nature influences human thought itself — it has inspired Isaac Newton to Steve Jobs’
Remember the time ...
‘We saw a drought driving evolution in the Galapagos — Darwin’s finches modify fast’
‘Home to 70% of the world’s tigers, India has a huge part of the species’ total genetic variation’
Of Cabbages — And Kings
‘Naturalist studies grew as an imperial by-product’
‘Today’s climate crisis is rooted in British imperial rule — this impacted India’s nature’
‘Imperialism enabled the fossil fuel transformation of the world’
‘Extreme heat raises child malnutrition — kids must be protected from such lifelong damage’
‘El Nino raises our exposure to dangerous mercury’
A world of good health
‘Climate change has significant impacts on our health — children are very vulnerable’
‘Women foragers hold India’s ethnoecological data on natural remedies’
'India is at the bullseye of climate change's heat impacting workers — this has economic effects'
‘Each of Earth’s tectonic plates has its own history’
The Miracle of your life
‘Butterflies emerged 85 million years ago when dinosaurs went extinct’
‘Ancient ice cores show how Earth’s massive carbon cycle shaped temperatures — and life’
‘Global warming will cause conditions beyond human tolerance — this will impact homes too’
‘Tropical nations like India have a far greater wealth of species that evolved over millennia’
‘India’s investment in water treatment will positively impact its economic development’
‘Plant interactions with others evolved over aeons’
‘Resilient millets evolved 500+ times some became India’s heritage crops’
A story on every leaf
‘Plants turned Earth green 450 million years ago — flowering species shaped its biosphere’
‘As Greenland’s glaciers melt, Louisiana’s waters rise — ice is the keeper of deep time’
‘The commons must include many neglected species’
A piece of water, a handful of shade
‘From water to air, the global commons must be managed with rules — and climate justice’
‘India’s urban commons give joy — they must be freed from a colonial approach’
‘Cities contain magical nature — you can spot ant ‘highways’ built over internet cables’
‘Wondrous Himalayan birds face the threat of extinction now — but there are signs of hope’