News (Wildlife & Biodiversity)

The world has spent 35 years funding biodiversity. Why is nature still losing
Wildlife & Biodiversity

The world has spent 35 years funding biodiversity. Why is nature still losing?

Shimali Chauhan
6 min read
As GEF concluded landmark meetings in Samarkand, the uncomfortable arithmetic of biodiversity crisis refuses to go away
The Asian tiger mosquito can survive cooler temperatures than the yellow fever mosquito, allowing it to spread into warmer former cold regions and increase the risk of local chikungunya transmission.
Climate Change

Climate change may expand chikungunya risk in North America, Europe and Asia, study says

Himanshu Nitnaware
3 min read
A new modelling study says warming temperatures could allow disease-carrying mosquitoes to establish hotspots in regions that were previously too cold for sustained transmission
Students of Pisavare village, who have played a key role in documenting the bird species in the village in Sahyadri mountains of Maharashtra.
Wildlife & Biodiversity

Sahyadri gets a bird village

Shekhar Paigude
2 min read
Residents of Maharashtra’s Pisavare village are protecting birds in their vicinity through simple practices such as documenting species & building nests
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