Another species extinct: This time the Yangtze giant soft shell turtle

The last surviving female dies in a Chinese zoo

Female turtle returns to Maldivian atoll to lay eggs, finds runway instead

The turtle laid her eggs on the runway of Maafaru airport itself, on Noonu Atoll

We find several connections of sound to the environment: Radha Kapuria

Down To Earth speaks to Durham University academic and author about the influence of the environment on music, visual and the performing arts

First case of Lumpy Skin Disease documented in Cambodian wild bovids: Study

A male banteng or wild cattle was discovered with signs of the disease in September 2021 and died soon after; case highlights danger to wild …

Shaligrams, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists for over 2,000 years, are becoming rarer because of climate change

The Kali Gandaki river in Nepal is fed by meltwater from the southern Tibetan Plateau. But with glaciers disappearing, the river is becoming …

International Tiger Day 2023: Yes, tigers did roam Sindh and Bahawalpur once

The tiger is of course extinct in Pakistan but it should be a sobering thought that it has only become so within the last 100 years

Rarely inundated floodplains in Asia, Africa face higher risk now, says study. Here’s why

With increasing hazard extremes due to climate change, people settled in places that flood rarely are at risk

Rising sea levels could swamp sinking Shanghai

More than half the city will be under 1.2 metres of flood waters by the end of this century if action is not taken now

In Maps: What the future holds for our warming world

Climate change will affect up to one-third of the world’s population, but the impact will not be equal across countries

Following Alfred Russel Wallace’s footsteps to Borneo, where he penned his pioneering evolution paper

Wallace, born 200 years ago on January 8, wrote the Sarawak Law paper in a remote jungle far from anyone and anything back in 1855

Bengal tiger, hoolock gibbon, snow leopard to face climate change wrath: New IPCC report

Biomes, species and biodiversity to be affected according to projections for Asia by IPCC

Air pollution: European countries making strides, but others lagging behind

Dangerous air quality levels continue to be recorded throughout Europe and Central Asia, despite imprpvement in slashing emssions, UNEP study notes

Climate emergency: It is time to prepare for severe floods that will hit South Asia

Models show that for a 3°C rise in mean temperature, number of people annually affected in South Asia can more than triple, disrupting lives …

Series of cloudbursts cause flash floods in western Himalayas, across India and Pakistan

Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh in India and Islamabad and Rawalpindi in Pakistan have been affected due to flash floods July 28, 2021

COVID-19: WHO has only $1.2 mln to fight outbreak

More international economic groups confirmed initial assessments that  China's economy is going to dip because of the COVID-19 outbreak  

Will Trump’s trade war with China ever end?

It has become increasingly clear that the trade war is hurting the economies of both countries. Neither will emerge from this conflict unscathed.

Developing countries trust vaccines more: UK survey

Almost all Bangladeshis and Rwandans feel vaccines are safe and important; most French disagree

International Solar Alliance plans bank to fund energy access

Priority focus 1.2 billion with no access; next step: 2.4 billion without  access to clean sources

Asia received largest share of climate finance in 2017: report

The report by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development adds that public climate finance from developed to developing countries&…

As war looms over West Asia, many of its major water bodies are already on the brink

The Tigris-Euphrates and Jordan river basins, Dead Sea, Zayandeh Rud, Red Sea and Persian Gulf are symbols of the intertwined geopolitical & …

How Tsarist Russia’s expansion into the Caucasus and Central Asia decimated their wildlife

The Russian imperial administration encouraged the extermination of large predators because it considered their existence incompatible with the …

A one-sided election risks Bangladesh’s future

With the distinction between the state, government and party obliterated, Bangladesh is heading towards a personalised autocracy  

COVID-19 added over $290 billion to the global cost of TB deaths: Study

South Asia incurred the highest losses due to TB deaths in 2020

A third of businesses in South Asia not in operation amid COVID-19 pandemic: World Bank

Firms in South Asia witnessed an overall sales decline of 64%

Asian Elephant Specialist Group meet starts in Malaysia

Various issues concerning the Asian Elephant to be discussed at the event