Ritoban Mukherjee

The Print — To safeguard any species on the brink of extinction, one requires exact data about its physiology, actions and behaviour, natural habitat and place in the food chain. As such data is notoriously scarce and undervalued, especially in a developing nation like India, scientists are resorting to citizen science: Ordinary people collaborating with professional researchers in an effort to gather accurate data for the advancement of scientific studies.

Popula — As I looked out the window of my sixth-floor apartment, the morning after Diwali, I couldn't contain my dismay. I had gotten up for my morning walk, but this was no day to be outside: puffs of smoke still bellowed out of ash piles on the ground and soot lined the tops of every car in the community driveway.

UNDARK — O n February 16, 2018, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the state of Oaxaca in Mexico, the third in a series of earthquakes to hit the country in less than a year. To provide shelter and offer aid to the people whose homes were destroyed, the Mexican federal government introduced temporary public shelters across the affected regions.

Gizmodo — One evening last November, a young woman named Neha was feeding her infant son inside their house in Runkata, a small town in the outskirts of Agra, India. Suddenly, a monkey broke into the house, snatched the baby boy from her arms, and made away with him.

OneZero — Startups are building land-based octopus farms. Critics argue they're harming the animals. F ounded in 1974, the Hawaii Ocean and Technology Park in Kailua Kona serves as a hub for some of the most exciting projects in green aquaculture and the use of seawater to generate electricity.

Mental Floss — Scientists are making ancient French grape vines less susceptible to diseases-and less likely to cause hangovers-through gene editing.

Quartz — A journalist in West Bengal shares how apocalyptic sci-fi helps us confront our darkest fears in Covid-19 quarantine.

Quartz — Because of global warming, archaeologists are unearthing ancient artifacts long lost between layers of ice and snow, but warming environments make preserving these relics an ongoing challenge.

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