This crane flew 4,800 kilometres in 15 days to reach Gujarat on World Migratory Bird Day

‘Vadla’, a female Common Crane, was tagged March 12 this year in Gujarat’s Nal Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, as part of a larger project to assess impact of power lines on large avian species

Where does milk come from?

Cows account for nearly 80 per cent of global milk production, but they are not the only milk providers humans have been dependent on for nutrition.

Where will these railway track dwellers of Delhi live after eviction

Already living in filth, misery, disease and hunger, will they now be deprived of the only places they call home?

Curbs to chaos: The national capital commutes amid COVID-19 fears

Millions across the world have come out of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown and returned to work. Public transport with confined spaces and limited ventilation has come alive in the national capital again — and with it the fear of disease outbreak

A year around the moon

India’s second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, completed one year in orbit around the moon August 20, 2020. Space agency ISRO said it has adequate fuel to keep it operational for about seven more years

Young art: A head full of dreams

Gobar Times and Green Schools Programme conducted a five-day environment e-summer camp from June 1 to June 5, 2020. Sessions on story-telling, quiz, photography, comic-making, script-writing and news-writing were conducted. Students from class 3 to class 8 participated in the online workshops and few shared their art with us after the event. Here’s a look.

Broken cable damages Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico

The Arecibo Observatory is one of the largest radio telescopes in the world. It features prominently in the last part of the 1995 movie GoldenEye

Baluni in pictures

Uttarakhand has a number of ‘ghost villages’, where residents have left behind their homes to search for a better life in big cities. There remains one village whose residents did not return.

Smooth launch for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover

The rover was launched successfully July 30, 2020. Its mission is to search for signs of past microbial life and collect rock and dust samples from Mars.

Floods and COVID-19: Tale of twin disasters

An episode that plays itself out every year: Assam is reeling under floods, yet again. As the COVID-19 pandemic silently rages in the background, life and livelihood are suffering

Global warming, sea-ice loss intensify polar bear decline

Polar bear populations are expected to decline in the Arctic Circle region, said a study published July 20, 2020 in journal Nature.

15 new UNESCO Geoparks in three continents reflect the glory of nature

From coastal cliffs in Canada to ‘rainbow’ mountains in China to one of Europe’s true deserts, the new locations reflect the grandeur, majesty and beauty of our natural world

How damaging Cyclone Amphan was for the Sundarbans

Cyclone Amphan caused major damage across south Bengal, including the Sundarbans and across the Odisha coast on May 20, 2020. Communication infrastructure, including telephone networks, were damaged in the Sundarbans.

Days of COVID-19 confinement: How school-goers are dealing with lockdown

Nearly 90% of the world’s children are reportedly confined at their homes due to the novel coronavirus disease pandemic. Gobar Times asked some of them to share their lockdown experiences:

Typhoon Ambo increases challenges for Philippines during COVID-19

Typhoon Vongfong, known locally as Ambo, made landfall in the Philippines on May 14, 2020, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people during a lockdown over the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Lockdown no bar for the young artist

Pen, paper, paintbrush and lots of colours! Beating the gloom of the lockdown through art, these young artists have decided to spread hope and love in the world through their paintings, posters and doodles. Here's a look

Running the gauntlet at Gahiramatha

Every year, Olive Ridley turtle hatchlings traverse a small distance in Odisha's Gahiramatha Sanctuary to take the plunge into life, literally

Hubble space telescope celebrates 30th anniversary

The Hubble Space Telescope — responsible for significantly expanding mankind's understanding of the universe — celebrated its 30th anniversary in space on April 24, 2020. Down To Earth brings you some of the most breath-taking images the telescope has captured.

Earth Day 2020: Wildlife runs wild amid COVID-19

With humans across the world cooped up in their homes due to COVID-19, wild animals have made appearances in human-dominated areas

Yes, jackals are poached in India too

Jackals, those tricksters of our folktales, are poached too, but for reasons entirely different from charismatic species

Kolkata gully kids to grown-ups: Beware of coronavirus

A few kids at a Kolkata slum were perturbed over how some adults were not taking the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic seriously enough. Aged between 14 and 17 years, they came up with a series of posters to communicate the importance of hand hygiene and social distancing. Here are the lessons from the young ones.

Amid gloom of COVID-19, rhino breeding centre begins at Patna zoo

The first pair of one-horned rhinos named Ganesh and Lali have been released into the pen