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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has received a “major gift” from Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears of Hunting Valley, bringing their total support of the museum to $10
Prof Hemendrakumar Prithviraj Gandhi, 'Father of Indian freshwater diatom science', dedicated his life to diatom research, discovering 299 new taxa an
At the Feet of Living Things: Twenty-Five Years of Wildlife Research and Conservation in India is an edited volume of essays that marks the 25th anniversary of the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) which was set up in 1996. In his foreword to the volume, the well-known environmental historian, Mahesh Rangarajan, notes that non-governmental organisations in the wildlife conservation space are usually established by experienced, well-connected men.
MS had written that seeds of the green revolution were first sown in the fields of CRRI through the indica-japonica rice crosses, and decided that the plant type should be tailored to be functionally responsive to external application of fertilisers.
Swaminathan played a significant role in changing the trajectory of the agriculture sector when farmers were dependent on archaic farming techniques.