A new study of the sediments from a seasonal lake in the Kaas Plateau in the Satara district of Maharashtra has indicated a major shift in the Indian Summer Monsoons towards dry and stressed conditions with low rainfall during the Early-Mid–Holocene,
The new species, named Gomphonema rajaguruii in the journal Phytotaxa this month, was found in a semi-aquatic environment along the wet walls in Maharashtra's popular hill station Mahabaleshwar in Satara district.
When diatom hunter Karthick Balasubramanian was invited to a research expedition on the Blue Mountains of Mizoram, little did he know the trek would result in producing the first dataset on diatoms from aerial habitats in the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. Diatoms are microscopic algae living in a “glass house,” a self-constructed shell they make from […]