Experts recommend reforestation campaigns to combat siltation at Bhakra Dam, one of the first infrastructure projects pursued by India after independence.Read More »Biogeosciences
The climate is warming too fast for some trees to catch up. Planting seeds from warmer regions can bolster future forests, but that requires a significant shift in forestry practice.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
Drought should be considered and modeled as a process, including human–nature interactions, and not merely a product of water deficit.Read More »Biogeosciences
Seismic data reveal how water is accumulated and released by Himalayan groundwater reservoirs which are key for predicting future freshwater resources for a large part of South Asia.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
Floodplain forests have low resilience to repeated exposure to wildfires. As climate change increases the instances of fires, forests may transform to less productive grassland ecosystems.Read More »Hydrology, Cryosphere & Earth Surface
A system of canals 2 millennia old sustained a local population after the collapse of its neighbors, and it continues to affect local ecology today.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid reset most of life on Earth. But without this catastrophic event, the composition of neotropical rain forests wouldn’t be the same.Read More »
