A news article has recently been published in ONManorama (a reputed Indian newspaper) featuring Afsal's studies and research at the University of Bristol.

When Afsal Ayub Khan first told his family he wanted to study climate change, he was met with amused smiles and puzzled looks. It was a subject unfamiliar to most around him and there was no one to turn to for guidance. Yet, with quiet determination, Afsal walked away from a guaranteed engineering seat and left his hometown of Karunagappally in Kollam for Mannuthy Agricultural University in Thrissur, where he joined the Integrated B.Sc. and M.Sc. Programmes in Climate Change Adaptation.

That decision has now taken him all the way to the University of Bristol the UK, where he is pursuing a PhD on a fully funded scholarship.  His research focuses on mitigating methane emissions from cattle, one of the significant contributors to global warming.

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