Rahul Bhadouria is an Environmental Researcher at the University of Delhi, India, and his research interests focus on the fields of ecosystem ecology, natural resource management and climate change. He has been devoting his attention to the management of soil C dynamics to mitigate climate change and has published articles and books on topics such as the impact of climate change on tropical dry forests, pollution and water management, and urban ecology. Sachchidanand Tripathi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi, India. His research areas focus on soil ecology, urban ecology and plant ecology, with particular attention to soil analysis, sustainable agriculture and soil fertility. Pardeep Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. With 55+ articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, his main research contributions are in the fields of waste management, nano-material synthesis and applications, photochemical waste degradation and management, and soil C dynamics. Rishikesh Singh is an environmental researcher at Banaras Hindu University, India, and he holds a PhD degree from the same institution, where he studied the impact analysis of agronomic practices. With 70+ publications in the field of environmental sciences, he has been focusing his research on environmental contaminants and the management of agroecosystems using living materials derived from products like biochar.

He is also serving as the Assistant Editor in the journal "Tropical Ecology". Harminder Pal Singh is a Professor, and former Chairperson of the Department of Environment Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He had been post-doctoral researcher at the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand; and visiting faculty at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He is the recipient of the Shiv Nath Rai Kohli Best Mid-Career Award, Young Scientist Awards by Indian Science Congress Association, Dalela Educational Trust, and Punjab Academy of Sciences.