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As climate firm sells to Big Tech, a Gujarat grassland is left behind

In January last year, Gurgaon-based climate-tech company, Varaha ClimateAG Private Limited, struck the largest ever biochar carbon removal deals with Google and Microsoft. It was to sell 100,000 carbon removal credits each to the tech giants.

Newslaundry · Sep 30

India's Only Striped Hyena Eats Anthrax-Laden Carcasses and Keeps Disease From Spreading Across the Wild

The stomach that stops an outbreakThe striped hyena has the most acidic digestive system of any land mammal studied, a gastric pH that drops as low as 1.7, comparable to concentrated battery acid. A 2017 paper published in the journal Integrative Zoology confirmed that this acidity allows hyenas to neutralise…

Times Life · Sep 15

Banni Grasslands of Kutch: What India's Largest Grassland Holds and What Is Erasing Its Wildlife

A Grassland That Doesn't Look Like OneMost people picture a grassland as something lush and open, rolling green, the kind of place that announces itself. Banni does the opposite. It sits on the northern edge of the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, a flat, sun-baked plain that looks, to an…

Times Life · Aug 31