Climate Brides

What does climate change look or feel like to you? For some of us, it may be the image of a Polar Bear on thin ice. For others, drought stricken stretches of barren land. For many young women in developing nations, it is premature marriage and pregnancy. ‘Climate brides‘ are married off in their teens by their families to relieve them from the brunt of financial duress brought on by climate change.

A cartoon on climate brides this Earth Day for DW Global Ideas. Visit and follow the Climate Brides Podcast for more information on this issue.

Tiger Sharks help Marine Biology

Bahamas’ Tiger Sharks, apart from being apex predators of the ecosystem, and seagrass and coral reef guardians, have now earned yet another specialty: helping marine biologists map seagrass beds! The seagrass ecosystem of the Bahamas Banks is the largest such ecosystem in the world. As carbon sequestration of seagrass beds happens to be one of the focuses of this research, this also makes Tiger Sharks climate warriors with a diploma to prove it!

Salinity and the Dolphins of Sunderbans

Climate change, salinity and its impacts on two dolphin species in the Sunderbans. Cartoon from my column with Roundglass Sustain.

Plasticosis

There's a new kind of sea-sickness and it's human-made! Plasticosis, a scarring of the stomach lining from ingestion of plastics, has first been described from Flesh-footed Shearwaters, a species of seabird considered the most vulnerable to plastic ingestion. Comic for DW Global Ideas. 

The European Hamster in Ukraine

The critically endangered European Hamster, along with other grassland specialists like the Steppe Marmot, the Fallow Deer and the Kulan, are now on a mission to rewild Ukraine’s steppes. The reintroduction effort, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hopes to keep a legacy of conservation going in the country against the odds.

Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.