A narrow, broken road runs alongside Nattuthodu, a canal clogged with water hyacinth and mucky water. In a hushed tone, she says, “If the supply does not arrive, we will run out of drinking water by the evening.” Shantha’s four-member family has been relying on private water supply for several years for drinking and cooking, whether in the rainy season …
The Vembanad lake has been highly contaminated with faecal waste as a recent international study has recorded E.coli contamination of alarming levels in the waterbody. However, during the lockdown period, there was 99.8% decrease in the average abundance of E. coli, said A. Abdulaziz of NIO, who was the lead author of the scientific paper ‘The distribution of faecal contamination …
When Salim Ali, who had been learning the art of bird ringing and studying specimens at the Berlin Natural History Museum in Germany, returned to India in 1930, he found himself jobless. Salim Ali had a beautiful, succinct way of speaking of birds, says Subramanya, who worked with Ali briefly. Since collecting specimens was the way to record bird diversity …
