As India struggles with intense heatwaves striking earlier than usual for the third consecutive summer, millions are facing the dual challenges of stifling humidity and soaring temperatures. This concerning trend, exacerbated by the effects of climate change, poses significant threats to public health, emphasizing the critical need for adaptive measures. Researchers caution that without prompt intervention, the lives of over Continue Reading »

Generative AI or GenAI, also known as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on generating new data that resembles a given training dataset. It involves training a generative model to create new samples that are similar in distribution to the original data, allowing it to generate realistic and novel outputs. In a typical generative Continue Reading »

Algae are photosynthetic, tiny marine organisms whose cells are eukaryotic. Algae can inhabit the freshwater as well as the marine ecosystem. The different categories of phytoplankton for example, diatoms and dinoflagellates are examples of unicellular, floating algae. Although most types of phytoplankton do not possess any toxicity, a few species of dinoflagellates are able to produce toxins that could be Continue Reading »

Fog is a visible aggregate of water droplets suspended in the air which reduces the visibility at ground level. Depending on the concentration of water droplets in the air, the visibility may range from the appearance of haze to almost zero visibility.  As per the International meteorological vocabulary, the low visibility conditions shall come under foggy conditions when the visibility Continue Reading »

In Asia, around 45% of biomass burning comes from forest fires, 34% from crop residue/agriculture residue fires (stubble fires), and 20% from grassland & savanna fires. The proportion of biomass burning is highest in China (25%) followed by India (18%). In India, the rice wheat cropping system is the most widely practiced cropping system in Northwest India particularly in Punjab, Continue Reading »