Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Quest for creatures A team of wildlife researchers went on an expedition to Amazon forests. The study was carried out by NatureFirm, an eDNA company. It was headed by Kate Bruce who carried out the study for the charity World Wildlife Fund(WWF) The goal was to look for pink river […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Adaptive laboratory evolution has become a substantial tool for the development of microbial strains with enhanced genetically modified features. The long-term Escherichia coli evolution experiment is a good example. It has emphasized how evolution under adequate conditions can be utilized to understand adaptive processes. These experiments have helped to determine the possible evolutionary […]
Madhavi Bhatia, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, plants, and animals through the ingestion of toxic pollutants. It takes almost hundreds to thousands of years for the plastic to degrade resulting in long-lasting environmental damage. Plastic debris has now become the most ubiquitous and long-lasting pressure on […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Butterflies and moths of the order Lepidoptera are regarded as one of those animal groups with a diverse distribution of species. Up to now, scientists have discovered almost 5000 species from the Alps itself. Recently, a Swiss-Austrian team of researchers reported the discovery of a new species of alpine moth […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Environmental impacts on wildlife There has been an unexpected change in the environment such as severe climatic changes, and the destruction and fragmentation of habitat, due to recent human activity. These also include the discharge of novel substances to the environment with the capacity to affect the physiology, behaviour, and […]
Sampriti Roy, University of Calcutta Reintroduction or ‘rewilding’, an approach to restoring the biodiversity of an area, is gaining increasing popularity worldwide. The aim of any rewilding event is to promote self-sustenance of an ecosystem, such that it has conditions that require minimal external maintenance. This approach is especially essential right now due to the […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Microbial Ecology known as environmental microbiology is the study of microorganisms’ relationship with each other as well as their environment. The main goal of researchers in this department is to capture the maximum amount of information from all organisms that are present in a given sample. Traditionally DNA-based protocols are […]
