About Vijay Raj Jayaraj (Edit profile)

Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, VA and a contributor to CFACT. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India.

Boats of steel: Resilience of tsunami-ravaged fishing communities in southern India

It was just a normal tropical sunrise for many of the villages in the Southern coast of India. Many fishing communities along the coast of Tamil Nadu did not know what they would face that day. On December 26, 2004, a devastating Tsunami in the Indian Ocean stuck the villages along India’s eastern coast. More than 10,000 lives were lost that day in India. Those who escaped the Tsunami faced their worst nightmare. The tsunami destroyed homes, fishing boats, and entire village infrastructure. 154,000 houses were damaged or destroyed. The financial damage was around US$ 1 billion. The fishing communities in [...]

By |2021-09-06T22:24:35-04:00September 9th, 2021|Comments Off on Boats of steel: Resilience of tsunami-ravaged fishing communities in southern India
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India’s GMO pause is a big step backward

Biotechnology experts believe that this decision signals a big blow to the prospects of GM crop use in India, at least for the foreseeable future and have expressed grave concern for the advancement of crop technology in India.

By |2021-03-26T09:03:17-04:00April 2nd, 2021|Comments Off on India’s GMO pause is a big step backward
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