Publications
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G Parthasarathy Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Spectroscopic Investigations and Mineral Chemistry of Dunite from the Sargur Supracrustals (3 Ga) Greenstone Belt: Implications to Terrestrial Analogues for Lunar and Martian Dunite Journal of Geological Society of India The present spectrocopic studies on the Karya dunite of Sargur supracrustals (3 Ga) greenstone belt, Western Dharwar Craton Karnataka, indicates a possibility of using Karya dunites as a terrestrial analogue material for improving the Martian surface mineralogy and occurrence of hydrous minerals and life support system in Mars |
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M Sai Baba Visiting Professor, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering World TV Day https://res.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c96385cee36c21eb5f2510c4&id=61de00a304&e=ffe444b6f3 Scicom@NIAS Taking into the cognition of TV's impact on bringing people's attention that moulds decision-making, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 21 November as World Television Day. |
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C P Rajendran Adjunct Faculty, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering The geoheritage value of Ram Setu https://res.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c96385cee36c21eb5f2510c4&id=d2e5e9653f&e=ffe444b6f3 The Hindu The Ram Setu needs to be preserved not just as a national heritage monument, but as a geoheritage structure |
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Ankita Ranjan co-authored Doctoral Student, Energy, Environment and Climate Change Programme The real issue at COP27 is energy equity Co-authored with Tejal Kanitkar. The Hindu At the COP 27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (beginning November 6, 2022), the global South must put the question of its energy poverty and the severe global inequalities in energy access squarely at the centre of all discussions. |
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Tejal Kanitkar co-authored Associate Professor , Energy, Environment and Climate Change Programme The real issue at COP27 is energy equity Co-authored with Ankita Rajan. The Hindu At the COP 27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (beginning November 6, 2022), the global South must put the question of its energy poverty and the severe global inequalities in energy access squarely at the centre of all discussions. |
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Anindya Sinha co-authored Possible Self-Awareness in Wild Adélie Penguins Pygoscelis adeliae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.04.515260v1 Co-authored with Prabir G Dastidar and Azizuddin Khan. BioRxiv This preliminary study has investigated the potential presence of self-awareness in a population of wild Adeìlie penguins in East Antarctica on the basis of responses and reactions of individual penguins to images, generated in mirrors, using three experimental paradigms. These appear to be the first investigations into the potential presence of self-awareness in any penguin species in their natural environment, without any prior familiarisation, conditioning or acclimatisation to the experimental paradigms employed. |
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C P Rajendran Adjunct Faculty, School of Natural Sciences and Engineering Review Science Awards Ecosystem The New Indian Express More importantly, the question to be raised is whether award selection in the past has been fair and equitable. |
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Tejal Kanitkar co-authored Associate Professor , Energy, Environment and Climate Change Programme Equity Assessment of Global Mitigation Pathways in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Co-authored with Akhil Mythri and T Jayaraman. OSF Pre-print Our analysis of IPCC Sixth Assessment scenarios shows that they disregard both the historical responsibility of the Global North for carbon emissions as well as the future energy needs of the Global South required to meet developmental goals. The burden of climate change mitigation is placed squarely on less developed countries, while developed countries continue to increase their energy consumption unhindered by constraints on the use of fossil fuels. |