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Review: Intertidal; A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: Intertidal; A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves

Hindustan Times  

At its heart, Intertidal is a nature journal. A faithful documentation of the time Yuvan Aves has spent in nature -- sometimes studying, sometimes teaching, always observing. Yuvan Aves, a naturalist and nature educator, writes about this intertidal space on the coasts and marshlands of Chennai. Aves tells us about the incredible living architecture of coral reefs – how single-celled …

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BOOK REVIEW | Review of Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves
7 months, 3 weeks ago

BOOK REVIEW | Review of Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary by Yuvan Aves

The Hindu  

Yuvan Aves’ book is a blend of a naturalist’s journal, a coming-of-age memoir, a treatise on meditation and mindfulness, and much more. Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary By Yuvan Aves Bloomsbury India Pages: 286 Price: Rs.699 In a lot of ways, the naturalist Yuvan Aves’ book, Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary, seeks to find this music of life …

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Review of Yuvan Aves’ Intertidal — A Coast and Marsh Diary: Hungry tides
9 months, 1 week ago

Review of Yuvan Aves’ Intertidal — A Coast and Marsh Diary: Hungry tides

The Hindu  

On one side lies Yuvan Aves’ Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary; on the other is an Since the floods of 2015, the citizens of Chennai keep a wary eye on the sky every time clouds gather. The next five years, which he spent at Pathashaala School, were “a period of healing but also of recasting the meaning of my …

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Yuvan Aves’ notes from the intertidal zone
1 year ago

Yuvan Aves’ notes from the intertidal zone

The Hindu  

Yuvan Aves, like many other people in the city, is still grappling with the after-effects of the 2023 Chennai floods. Written in beautiful, lucid prose, this deeply immersive, exquisitely detailed and moving book crisscrosses multiple urban landscapes—Urur Olcott Kuppam, the Kaliveli Estuary, Kovalam, Ennore, Pulicat, even the balcony in his Velachery home—over two years and three monsoons, taking the reader …

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Inter-tidal areas like Wadden Sea important for sharks, rays: Dutch researchers
1 year, 10 months ago

Inter-tidal areas like Wadden Sea important for sharks, rays: Dutch researchers

NL Times  

Intertidal areas like the Wadden Sea play a significant role in the life cycle of sharks and rays, researchers from the University of Groningen and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research concluded in a study published in the scientific journal Fish and Fisheries this week. Previous studies of these areas focused mostly on birds, but the Groningen researchers found that …

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Explained | Why have mangroves got a Budget push?
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | Why have mangroves got a Budget push?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Union Budget for 2023-24 announced an initiative for mangrove plantation along the coastline and on salt pan lands, under MISHTI. The ‘State of World Mangroves 2022’ report by the Global Mangrove Alliance puts the total mangrove cover of the world at 1,47,000 sq km. Mangroves in India are distributed across nine States and three Union …

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New species of estuarine crab discovered in Cuddalore named after Annamalai University
2 years, 2 months ago

New species of estuarine crab discovered in Cuddalore named after Annamalai University

The Hindu  

Researchers have discovered a new species of estuarine crab at the mangroves of Parangipettai near the Vellar River estuary in Cuddalore district. The species discovered is distributed around the Indian subcontinent and the eastern Indian Ocean,” says S. Ravichandran, Associate Professor, CAS. “Specimens of Pseudohelice annamalai were collected from the high intertidal areas of the Vellar River estuary, Parangipettai, with …

Species New Species Cas Indian Ocean Annamalai Named Pseudohelice Pseudohelice Annamalai
A mascot for inter-tidal and buffer zones
2 years, 3 months ago

A mascot for inter-tidal and buffer zones

The Hindu  

Plovers’ movements have the repetitiveness of programmed toys. Experienced birders would tell two related plovers apart — say, the lesser and greater sand plovers — from the ground covered between every two pauses. The plovers also use one foot noticeably, tapping it on the ground to draw out the prey.” Close to noon on a muggy day last week at …

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Book Review | The superheroes of the shore continue to surprise and allure
2 years, 5 months ago

Book Review | The superheroes of the shore continue to surprise and allure

Deccan Chronicle  

What do you get where sand and sea water, wind and sunlight all come together? Coasts consist of three distinct areas: the sea, which is all water; land, above the high tide mark; and, finally, the intertidal zone, which is water at high tide and land at low. Small octopi — some only a foot long — that appear sometimes …

Life Zone Sea Intertidal Life Forms
HT Picks; New Reads
2 years, 6 months ago

HT Picks; New Reads

Hindustan Times  

Career catalysts for the professional woman A book that looks at how women can achieve maximum potential, another on pieces in the TAPI collection of textiles, and one on the fantastic organisms found in India’s intertidal zones - all that on this week’s list of great reads. The reasons for women not making it to the top echelons of the …

India Women Book Tapi Mochi Maximum Potential
Excerpt: Superpowers on the Shore by Sejal Mehta
2 years, 6 months ago

Excerpt: Superpowers on the Shore by Sejal Mehta

Hindustan Times  

Walking is falling forward. On a beach, this might mean watching the sand, or the cute candy crush-like umbonium sea snails — pink, chocolate brown, peach or maroon — doing what appears like backflips when disturbed. One day, when the sea had retreated farther inside I walked onto the sandy section of Juhu beach, a shore I thought I knew …

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World Environment Day: The creatures of intertidal zones
2 years, 7 months ago

World Environment Day: The creatures of intertidal zones

Live Mint  

Do marine animals have superpowers? If you look at the intertidal zone—where the ocean meets the land between high and low tides—through Sejal Mehta’s new book, Super Powers On The Shore, you might actually be convinced that they do. Mehta, a journalist and editor, has brought her experiences and observations from tide-pooling trails and walks along different intertidal zones in …

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Scottish seagulls remember where they ate fish and chips from, researchers find
2 years, 9 months ago

Scottish seagulls remember where they ate fish and chips from, researchers find

Daily Mail  

Most of us have a favourite chip shop – and it seems seagulls are no exception. Researchers at the British Trust for Ornithology used GPS technology to tag gulls, which can live for around 12 years, from Lady Isle and Pladda in the Clyde and Oronsay and Islay in the Inner Hebrides Researchers at the British Trust for Ornithology used …

Researchers Chip Herring Seagulls Remember Lady Isle Oronsay And Islay In The Inner Hebrides Herring Gulls