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Hema Sane, botanist who lived without electricity, died on September 19th
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In a crumbling four-storey wada in Pune’s old quarter, where temple bells compete with motorbike horns and hawkers press against the walls, an upstairs room stayed stubbornly off the grid. There, surrounded by sparrows and squirrels, a small woman in a plain cotton sari wrote longhand by daylight or by the glow of a kerosene lamp. This was Hema Sane, a botanist who turned her life into an experiment in ecological consistency. She died in Pune on September 19th, aged 85. For more than six decades, Dr. Sane taught botany at Abasaheb Garware College, guiding generations of students from lecture halls into muddy fields. She wrote over 30 books on India’s plants, ranging from technical texts on plant morphology to lively works on Indian spices and the trees of Buddhism. She delighted in reminding her classes that Emperor Ashoka’s edicts on protecting flora predated modern environmental law by two millennia. Science and cultural history, she believed, were not at odds but branches of the same tree. What set her apart was not only her scholarship but her refusal to live as her city did. Born in 1940, she had studied by kerosene lamp and never saw a reason to change. In Budhwar Peth she occupied a single room in her family’s decaying house without a power connection, rejecting refrigerators, televisions, and fans. “Food and shelter are basic needs. Electricity came later,” she liked to say. Her only concession to modernity was a small phone, given to her by a former…This article was originally published on Mongabay
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NEW YORK (AP) — The many conferences on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders offer a unique forum for companies and philanthropies to help shape an uncertain future. In the face of significant foreign aid pullbacks from the U.S. and other wealthy countries, humanitarian actors described more pragmatic and focused discussions than in previous years. It’s also a forum to make big commitments. Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg announced a new partnership with the African Development Bank Group to bring more investment to the continent. The Gates Foundation also announced a deal with an Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer to help lower the cost of an HIV prevention injectable. By James Pollard, Associated Press Banner image: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, second left, smiles with American businessman Tom Golisano, left, as he awards him with “The Clinton Global Citizen Award” next to former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, second right, and Chelsea Clinton during the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)This article was originally published on Mongabay
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NEW YORK (AP) — The many conferences on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders offer a unique forum for companies and philanthropies to help shape an uncertain future. In the face of significant foreign aid pullbacks from the U.S. and other wealthy countries, humanitarian actors described more pragmatic and focused discussions than in previous years. It’s also a forum to make big commitments. Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg announced a new partnership with the African Development Bank Group to bring more investment to the continent. The Gates Foundation also announced a deal with an Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer to help lower the cost of an HIV prevention injectable. By James Pollard, Associated Press Banner image: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, second left, smiles with American businessman Tom Golisano, left, as he awards him with “The Clinton Global Citizen Award” next to former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, second right, and Chelsea Clinton during the Clinton Global Initiative on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)This article was originally published on Mongabay
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Experts often warn about the “tipping point” for the Amazon, a scenario in which the rainforest collapses into a drier, less biodiverse savanna ecosystem. But the term “tipping point” is sometimes misunderstood or generalized, some experts say, suggesting that there will be an instant change to the biome from one day to the next. In reality, the transition from rainforest to savanna won’t be a single incident, but rather a gradual process happening at different rates across the region, multiple studies show. Some conservationists say there’s still a fundamental confusion within the general public about what the “tipping point” would look like, and what can be done about it. “For the most part, if you’re reading about the tipping point, you’re left with the impression that it’s like a single event, and that when the Amazon reaches that tipping point, it’s going to go from rainforest to savanna,” Matt Finer, director and senior research specialist of Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Project (MAAP), told Mongabay. “Very rarely do you get the nuance that it’s much more complicated than that.” The MAAP team wanted to clarify the way the Amazon tipping point works, and to explain the science to a general readership who might not have access to the latest research. The team combined numerous studies to create a series of maps, revealing that not all parts of the Amazon have the same risk level. One of the main factors influencing the tipping point is how water moves within the…This article was originally published on Mongabay
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