Sahana Ghosh

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Sahana lives in Kolkata in east India. She jumped ship from microbiology to journalism in 2012. She has worked with leading Indian newswire IANS and has also written for SciDev. Net. With a love for all things green, she dreams of bridging the gap between scientists and the media and open up a Science Cafe someday. Passionate about science content creation and marketing. Advocates gender equality. Science diplomacy. Science in Remote areas.

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Beasts that once roamed the Indian subcontinent could hold clues to evolution and extinction

Sahana Ghosh 24 Feb 2021

Odisha forest officer gets UN Award for environment enforcement, gender leadership

Sahana Ghosh 18 Feb 2021
Melting glaciers of Nanda Devi mountains, Chamoli, India. Photo by Naresh Chandra/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists analysing Uttarakhand floods highlight need to improve monitoring of glaciers

Sahana Ghosh 12 Feb 2021

Monitoring rainfall changes in world’s wettest place

Sahana Ghosh 11 Feb 2021
IFS Vanjulavalli Sridhar has often ruffled feathers with authorities for her actions against violations of forests and wildlife laws. As a mother to two boys, she has learnt to identify and stand her ground against gender-based discrimination, especially towards working mothers. Photo from Vanjulavalli Sridhar.

[Interview] ‘There is so much you can do in the forest service’, says IFS Vanjulavalli Sridhar

Sahana Ghosh 3 Feb 2021

The missing chapter in wildlife rescue: crowd control

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 29 Jan 2021
Baya weaver with nest male and female birds. Photo by Fareedz/Wikimedia Commons.

Precarious lives of the wild inside home gardens in northeast India

Rini Barman, Sahana Ghosh 25 Jan 2021

Research and resources are two pillars of India’s draft Arctic policy

Sahana Ghosh, Mayank Aggarwal 22 Jan 2021
A Chironomid (Chironomus plumosus). Certain Chironomids are hideouts of outbreak causing strains of the cholera bacterium. Photo by Entomart/Wikimedia Commons.

Hardy hideouts: Aquatic insects can forewarn cholera outbreaks

Sahana Ghosh 21 Jan 2021
Aerial views of Brahmaputra river. Photo by Ashwin Kumar/Wikimedia commons.

Ancient tree rings shed light on Brahmaputra’s flood risk

Sahana Ghosh 14 Jan 2021

India’s SOP to deal with feral and stray dogs in tiger reserves lacks the bite

Sahana Ghosh, Mayank Aggarwal 7 Jan 2021
Angami Naga tribe innovated the Alder coppicing system by retaining and pollarding nitrogen fixing Alder trees that facilitates fallow regrowth in Khonoma village, Nagaland. Photo by Joli R. Borah.

Building up carbon sinks in northeast India’s shifting cultivation landscape

Sahana Ghosh 25 Dec 2020

Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020
Villager looking at mining devastated areas in Goa, India. Photo by Frederick Noronha/Wikimedia Commons.

People living near mining activities at increased risk of diseases, says study

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 14 Dec 2020
Brook's House Gecko (Hemidactylus brookii) at Amboli, district Sindhudurg, Maharashtra. Photo by Raju Kasambe/Wikimedia Commons.

Bringing biodiversity and conservation to the forefront in India

Sahana Ghosh 10 Dec 2020
Biofilm formation on Pangong Tso sediment (a large pebble). Photo by Praveen Rahi.

Bacterial communities point to human influence on Pangong Tso water

Sahana Ghosh 23 Nov 2020

Lesser florican on verge of extinction in Madhya Pradesh, a ray of hope in Rajasthan

Manish Chandra Mishra, Sahana Ghosh 20 Nov 2020

Joe Biden’s presidency offers a return to climate change dialogue between India and the U.S.

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 18 Nov 2020

How wildlife outside protected areas responds to climate extremes

Sahana Ghosh 11 Nov 2020

Electric fence on the Indo-Nepal border puts migrating elephants and humans at risk

Avijan Saha, Sahana Ghosh 6 Nov 2020

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Declared a national project in 2014, the Polavaram project is funded by the union government, with Andhra Pradesh carrying out the construction. Image courtesy of Polavaram Project Authority.
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