L S Shashidhara
The Indian education system, like many other facets of our society, is at a cross-roads trying to find a way to enhance the number and quality of future academic as well as industrial researchers of the country, while still trying to make education accessible to all sections of society.

strong>Stephan Harding
Through deep experience, deep questioning and deep commitment emerges deep ecology.

Stories never fail to catch the attention of children. Here are two interesting tidbits to use in your classes.

Suhel Quader
Why is it that a tiger has stripes, but a lion does not? Why do honeybees live in massive groups, but butterflies don’t?

Rajaram Nityananda
Fifty years ago, we were taught that biology was a completely different subject from mathematics, physics, and chemistry.

S Rangaswami
The term ‘natural history’ is a translation of the Greek word ‘Historia’ meaning ‘a passionate, disinterested inquiry’ (Russell). It is in this sense that Herodotus (4th Century BC) wrote his ‘Historia’.

Varad Giri
Amphibians – frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians are animals that are indicators of the health of the ecosystem. Yet, amphibians are among the most ‘neglected’ groups of vertebrates and the reason partly lies in the definition of this term ‘amphibian’.

Suhel Quader and Uttara Mendiratta
The natural world is changing in many ways. Habitats fragment and disappear, humans hunt species to rarity and then extinction, plants and animals brought from different parts of the globe invade new habitats and endanger native species;

Preston Ahimaz
Many of us find spiders frightful: hairy, repulsive creatures which give us the creeps.

Mohammed Dilawar
It has been said that birds can exist without man but that man will perish without birds. Birds perform important ecosystem processes, particularly, pollination and seed dispersal.