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Everything Environment by Mongabay India
by Mongabay.com
A podcast to bring discussions about India's environment into mainstream narratives. Everything Environment will bring you stories about biodiversity, climate change, natural resources, and their links with our lives. Tune in to the shows to know about topics ranging from India's clean energy growth to paleoscience, lesser-known species to climate change solutions.
Episodes
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Wild Frequencies #3: Us and Them
If we listen closely, a bird's call reflects what humans have done to its landscape, and a forest soundscape tells us about habitat health. Listen to the third episode of Wild Frequencies to learn how scientists use bioacoustics to understand animals in a landscape altered by humans. Wild...
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Wild Frequencies #2: Know Them
Can we figure out animal behaviour by listening to the sounds they produce? In this episode, you'll hear from scientists who listen closely to wildlife ranging from large mammals to insects. Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India in which wildlife researchers from India...
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Wild Frequencies #1: Find Them
Most wild animals are not easy to spot. They are often hidden, camouflaged, or just not around when you are. But instead of trying to 'see' them, what if we try and 'listen' to them? After all, animals communicate. For some researchers, all this talking and chattering is gold. They use sounds to...
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Trailer: Wild Frequencies
Animals communicate. And some researchers listen to what they are saying. Hosts Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli travelled to different parts of India and spoke to multiple scientists to hear stories of sounds from the animal world. They will decode those wild frequencies for us, one song,...
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Environomy #6: A Challenge Across Generations
In this sixth and final episode of Environomy, we will explore how India has dealt with issues related to biodiversity and climate change since the 1991 economic reforms. Since the national government has taken a strong position on climate change in recent years, this episode will also try to...
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Environomy #5: The One That Got Missed
Though farming contributes less than 20% of India's GDP, it provides livelihood support to nearly half of the country's population. It is an extremely challenging occupation, with many from the younger generation unwilling to pursue agriculture. When the post-economic reforms financially…
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Environomy #4: India Buys A Fast Car
There are traffic jams on India's hill stations and mountain roads across the year. It wasn't always like this. Increased incomes of the Indian middle class after the 1991 economic reforms translated to improved mobility. Many made their way to the mountains. And the most significant impact of...
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Environomy #3: Playing With The Pillars
The legislature, the executive, and the judiciary, form the three pillars of Indian democracy. The legislature consisting of the parliamentarians, and legislators are the policy makers who draw up acts and policies. The executive is the government, consisting of the Prime Minister, Council of...
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Environomy #2: They Came, They Rapped, They Lobbied
In the early 1990s, the anti-Tehri dam and anti-Narmada dam movements were India's most well-known environmental protests. It was not as if only environmental activists were involved with these movements. The developments in Tehri and Narmada were watched keenly by people across the country. In…
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Environomy #1: The Middle Class Unbottled
How did the 1991 economic reforms impact the course of the Indian environment in the past three decades? Listen to Environomy's first episode, where we will look at how the Indian middle class acquired a distinct economic and political identity after the economic reforms of 1991. Through our show...
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Trailer: Environomy
The economic reforms of 1991 caused a radical shift in India's economic and social structure. It gave a new life to the middle class. But did you know that the reforms also changed how India dealt with its environmental issues? Join S Gopikrishna Warrier, Managing Editor of Mongabay-India, as he...
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Imprints: Lake hopping with Anoop Ambili
Lake-hopping is Anoop Ambili's thing. For Ambili, a paleoclimatologist, the Lonar Lake in Maharashtra, Tso Moriri in Ladakh and Renuka in Himachal Pradesh hide clues that help him reconstruct past climate changes going back to 10,000 years. Ambili is also studying microplastic pollutants in these...
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Imprints: Sifting through microfossils with Rajani Panchang
Looking at sediment under a microscope is a window into past environments and climates. In a dot of sediment, you may find thousands of microfossils - tiny remains of bacteria, protists, fungi, animals, and plants. Rajani Panchang, an oceanographer and micropaleontologist, uses microfossils from...
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Imprints: Digging up bones with Advait Jukar
Imagine this: When modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa, they saw creatures such as giant prehistoric elephants, a hippopotamus and a zebra-like horse, alongside other great beasts. Infact, these large mammals stuck around in the region for at least 20,000 years after the...
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GigaWhat: What not to do
India's renewable energy dreams have been big since the country shifted gears post-Paris climate summit in 2015. The country is now working towards achieving 500 GW of installed capacity from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. However, every choice has a cost. Rapid renewable energy installation…
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Imprints: Finding molluscs with Devapriya Chattopadhyay
What can shells tells us about marine paleoclimate? Shells and molluscs store a wealth of paleoclimate information. Molluscs build their shells with calcium carbonate from the sea water. Their shells record the sea water chemistry, which lets us decipher the changes that occurred in their...
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Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya
It is fascinating how scientists unearth data for climate science in unusual locations. Atreyee Bhattacharya's work takes her to lakebeds and libraries. She's a paleoclimatologist who looks back at past climates to develop the context for understanding recent climate change. She analyses…
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GigaWhat: Fuelling startups
India has an ambitious clean energy target that needs technology and innovation. While government and private sectors have their role to play, startups are critical for innovation and faster execution. They identify local, national and global problems, find opportunities and develop solutions....
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Trailer: Imprints
It is fascinating how scientists unearth data for climate science in unusual locations. Fossils, trees, lake sediment, other natural objects, and archival documents are like time portals. They tell us when and how ancient organisms and ecosystems experienced past environmental changes. On…
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GigaWhat: Building the backbone
We are all familiar with the buzzing sound under high-voltage power lines and transmission towers. The electricity passing through it is generated from coal power plants, solar parks, wind farms, dams and other sources. It passes through transmission networks and substations to eventually reach…
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GigaWhat: Clean the messy trail
The clean energy sector maintains that it is crusading the fight against climate change. But first, governments and companies have to fix the road to making clean energy technologies. The supply chain to create clean energy technologies is riddled with issues. Unsustainable mineral extraction to...
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GigaWhat: Creating rural jobs with renewables
Lack of energy access limits the rural economy. But reliable electricity creates an infrastructure for rural entrepreneurs and gives people a chance to work on their aspirations. In rural India, decentralised renewable energy options – primarily solar power – are creating livelihood and business...
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GigaWhat: Clean-washing by dams?
Hydropower has been an old and reliable source of energy in India. Until a few years ago, India considered a hydropower project renewable only when the installed capacity was less than 25 megawatt (MW). But then, in 2019, the government of India decided to consider large hydropower projects as...
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GigaWhat: Farms harvest solar energy
What are the high hurdles for India to uplift its people and realise its potential on the world stage? Two of the most significant ones are securing food for its large population and providing enough energy to power homes and industries. As it has always been, land, as a resource, is a precious...
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GigaWhat: Renewables go reckless
The loss of biodiversity, the sixth mass extinction, high chances that you would have heard these terms. It's clear what pushed us into this situation - overexploitation of natural resources, pollution, the way we farm, climate change and more. One big reason is that plants, animals and all other...
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GigaWhat: Renewable energy, limited land
Let's visualise the sheer expanse of one of India's largest solar parks, the Pavagada Solar Park in Karnataka. An aerial view of the site shows a never-ending sea of glass panels and wires spread across 13,000 acres. That is about 1/4th of the size of Kolkata city. Then there are smaller solar…
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GigaWhat: Clean Waste
The world is looking towards the sun, wind, and other alternatives for energy, and so is India, as a way to tackle climate change and other environmental issues. The sight of solar and wind farms, rooftops lined with solar panels, and electricity-powered vehicles might soon be common. For the…
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GigaWhat Trailer
GigaWhat will explore some of the biggest questions, challenges, and opportunities in India's transition from fossil fuels to clean energy sources. As countries commit to cutting their carbon emissions to tackle climate change and other environmental issues, there's growing attention on the clean...
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A podcast to bring discussions about India's environment into mainstream narratives. Everything Environment will bring you stories about biodiversity, climate change, natural resources, and their links with our lives. Tune in to the shows to know about topics ranging from India's clean energy growth to paleoscience, lesser-known species to climate change solutions.
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