India, which is home to more than 60 per cent of the world’s wild Asian elephants, has been conducting five-year elephant censuses since 2022, but this year it has got delayed A new methodology for conducting elephant census was announced on 2021. India will have to wait until June next year for the results of the latest elephant census, as …
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ’s VIIRS-SNPP satellite showed 74,015 farm fires in Punjab between October 1 and November 16. But data collated by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, using a combination of both VIIRS-SNPP and the MODIS satellite and sensor systems, which is used by the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region, and the …