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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 …

Nature Yuvan Intertidal
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 …

Plover Plovers Kentish
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