Pacman, one of Ranthambore’s most sighted tigers, is dead

Pacman, a five-year-old male, was found dead with grievous wounds caused by what is suspected to be a territorial fight

10 years since St Petersburg Declaration, hopes for doubling tiger numbers dim

Instead one-third of tiger conservation sites in the world are severely at risk of losing their wild tigers

This UN report shows green laws remain in books

Poor implementation of environmental laws is now a global problem, says the report that demystifies the reasons behind the failure

Why we studied proverbs to understand emotion among Ghana's Akan people

They contain valuable cultural information that symbolises a specific society’s uniqueness

Bamboo cultivation on India’s private lands can supply the incense stick industry

The incense stick industry can cut down on imports from East Asia if farmers grow bamboo locally

Goa introduces tags to protect biodiversity zones

Organisations selling products, which are made using ingredients from these zones, will now have to pay 0.01 per cent of their annual profits to state biodiversity zone

How will global warming affect El Niño in the 21st Century?

With available data not sufficient, it is imperative that models be held to very stringent standards on their performance of El Niño behaviour during historic periods, as a test of their reliability for future projections

Scientists synthesise new compound to fight stomach infections

IIT-Gandhinagar scientists have found a way to fight a bacteria that causes gastritis, peptic ulcers and stomach cancers

Himachal's farm success story at risk of going awry

Controlled-atmosphere farming shows a way of bucking agrarian crisis

Government hikes emoluments of research scholars

Department of Science and Technology's move comes after research scholars said previous emoluments were not enough

Body parts of hundreds of tigers seized between 2016 and 2018

Around 150 seizures were made from countries across the world, even from those that are not home to tigers

Trump may deny global warming but US has been paying for long

President Donald Trump is unreal in a real world as far as climate change is concerned, and it doesn’t suit his America First policy

Could climate change be behind fewer shark attacks worldwide?

US shark expert flags theory after study records dip in global shark attacks in 2018

Building toilets in rural schools is not enough, they have to be usable too

Around 23 per cent of rural schools have unusable toilets and 11.5 per cent have no separate toilets for girls, finds the 13th ASER report 

Are antibiotic resistant bacteria the new global epidemic?

Study says 131 antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs) material, including blaNDM-1 gene first found in India in 2008, has been found in the Arctic

A fifth of the world's healthy land degraded in 15 years

First land degradation assessment report by UNCCD shows countries in emergency mode to halt land degradation by 2030

The Royal Bengal could become a 'tiger of the snow': study

Climate change making Bengal tigers move to higher altitudes in India, Nepal and Bhutan, it says

Biodegradable film developed from whey, isabgol and lotus stem starch

It can be used to replace petroleum-based plastic packaging

Now, chickens lay eggs with anti-cancer drugs

These chickens were genetically modified by Scottish researchers, who say that this method is 100 times cheaper than producing the drugs in factories

Plight of marine fishermen in Odisha’s turtle zone

The seven-month-long fishing ban and the perpetual bad weather are making life difficult for state fisher folk

Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to fight a second battle to reclaim the land that is rightfully their own