P. P. Dhyani

TL;DR: The major objectives were to explore the potential in medicinal plants resources, to understand the challenges and opportunities with the medicinal plants sector, and to suggest recommendations based upon the present state of knowledge for the establishment and smooth functioning of the medicinal Plants sector along with improving the living standards of the underprivileged communities.

TL;DR: In this article, in-situ and space-borne observations reveal an extremely high loading of particulates over the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), all year around, since the pollutants undergo long range transport from their source regions to the Indian mainland, leading to an outflow of continental pollutants into the Bay of Bengal (BoB), and a net advection of desert dust aerosols into the IGP from southwest Asia (SW-Asia), northwest India (NW-India) and northern Africa (N-Africa) during summers.

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of climate change impacts on agriculture, water and forest ecosystems in the western Himalayan mountains based on literature review and some anecdotal evidences is presented, where a great deal of research work has been carried out on different aspects of western mountain mountain ecosystems but the findings have yet to be correlated in the context of climate changes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the indigenous knowledge of local people and their perceptions on climate change, and also documented adaptation approaches at local level in mountain ecosystem of western Himalaya.