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This ebook examines India’s response to climate change, its plans to meet the increasing energy demand while maintaining climate goals, its efforts to protect people from heatwaves, and its development of weather models and early warning systems during storms.

It looks at India’s role in international climate negotiations and its efforts to preserve glaciers and river systems.

In this study, the presence of potential self-awareness traits was tested for in single and groups of wild Adelie penguins, on a remote island in Antarctica, by examining their postural and gestural responses, and reactions to their images in mirrors, during four innovative experimental paradigms: group-behaviour test, modified mirror test, hidden-head test, and the coloured-bib test.

The article pays a tribute to Dr M. R. Srinivasan, Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, and describes his contributions, which put India firmly on the track for planning, construction, and commissioning of about nuclear reactors in various parts of the country.

Particulate chloride (pCl) is a significant constituent of atmospheric particulate matter, playing a critical role as a key precursor to secondary aerosols via nocturnal heterogeneous reactions. While coarse pCl typically prevails along the coastal belt, however, the growing presence of fine pCl in the interior regions is an emerging air quality concern. Anthropogenic sources driving these emissions remain poorly characterised, particularly in India, where existing global inventories lack resolution and specificity.

 One of the most difficult aspects of studying consciousness scientifically, particularly in other-than-humans, is to develop functional definitions for the phenomenon in non-verbal beings, wherein consciousness has to manifest itself in behavioural actions that can be unambiguously ascribed to being products of conscious states of the mind.