Plants
Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants. However, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants"), a group that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, mosses, and the green algae, but excludes the red and brown …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English
This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …
and cultural sites, burial grounds and medicinal plants. The State government and authorities stop all … collect firewood for domestic use, or collect plants to provide for their families. Beginning in 2004 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 May 2024 English
This research paper looks at the impact of urbanisation on lake systems in Bengaluru, with a focus on the vegetation growing in the lake and expansion of built-up areas in …
part companies have started establishing their plants along the western side of this reservoir. Consequently …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
China increased approvals for coal-powered power plants, with 243 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity permitted … health across East Asia. South Korea’s 57 coal-fired plants are a major source of air pollution.21 To combat … shifting 24 of the plants to natural gas, and will shutter an additional 30 plants by 2034. HIGHLIGHT: … can carry PM2.5 sourced from coal-burning power plants in northern China into South Korea.22 The country’s … pollutants in Indonesia come from coal-fired power plants, forest fires, and peatland slash and burn clearing …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 February 2024 English
This is the first ever report on the ‘state of the world’s migratory species’ and was published through collaboration between UNEP-WCMC (UN Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and …
Migratory birds, bats, and insects pollinate flowering plants and shape ecosystem structure by dispersing seeds … pollination occurs in at least 528 species of flowering plants, and bats are involved in the propagation of cashew …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 January 2024 English
Home to endemic species of plants and animals, Kaas Plateau in the Western Ghats is a unique landscape resting on 1,600-hectare bedrock. Uncontrolled tourism threatens this fragile ecosystem …
Home to endemic species of plants and animals, Kaas Plateau in the Western Ghats is a unique landscape …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …
units in the state, support for effluent treatment plants, and zero liquid discharge fa- cilities to help … for installation of Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) plants toease the problem of power cuts and shortage faced … country. • Under the solar energy scheme, the solar plants will have two options:On-Grid Solar Power Plant … consum- ers, as opposed to large centralized power plants that supply energy to a grid. • They are typically … and upgrade existing Common effluent Treat- ment plants. The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …
house in the town of Darjeeling. Those particular plants did not survive, but the British did not give … Once the plants had grown, the real work of plucking the leaves began. Because tea plants grow wildly … taking care of all their needs, and replacing ageing plants in the garden with new ones were all expensive …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 September 2023 English
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, released the second volume of the EnviStats – India 2023 report on September 29, 2023. This is the sixth edition …
combustion processes or CO2 absorbed by cultivated plants). 2.9 Products are goods and services that … like the production of agricultural crops and plants. (ii) Metal Ores are recorded in terms of gross … where the SEEA conceptualises agricultural area and plants as part of the economy (cultivated biological … DISCOMS to purchase power from Waste-to-Energy plants. In addition, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 September 2023 English
adds that there are so many tulsi (holy basil) plants in Pandharpur that “my Lord Vitthal cannot move …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 8 August 2023 English
Carbon capture and storage is the process of trapping carbon emissions produced by fossil fuel power plants or other industrial processes before they can enter our atmosphere by storing them deep underground …
carbon emissions produced by fossil fuel power plants or other industrial processes before they can enter … housing half of the world’s land species of animals, plants and insects. Reforestation and afforestation are …