Climate change forces Red-tailed Hawk to skip migration

According to experts, the bird has become a year-round resident, giving up embarking on a long journey southwards

Catch a tiger by its pug

Accurate tiger census methodology assumes significance in the context of the recent controversy over the declining number of tigers in the Indian …

Looking beyond hype and nostalgia

To most modern Indian writers, the environment means trees, birds and animals -- and human beings, in aesthetic or metaphysical communion with them.

Making a start

Ground realities alone will determine the future of Himalayan biodiversity and the people of the area

Global Eco Watch: Chinese pink dolphin numbers rise in Pearl river estuary

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Global Eco Watch: A cooling event caused rice to spread across Asia 4,200 years ago

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Lessons animals teach

How animals treat themselves with various plants provide medicinal leads to scientists.

Biodiversity under threat worldwide

Protests galore

Activists protest against mindless development in Uttara Kannada district

Bare facts

CONSERVATION EFFORTS

Crowded out

Human threat to biodiversity

The Earth's biodiversity could be much greater than we thought

A widely touted study proposes a total of 8.7 million species, but they could be 10 times more

Mira Behn: A friend of nature

The urge to be close to nature guided Madeleine Slade, who came to be known as Mira Behn, throughout her life

Himalayan yew to fight cancer

Taxol, an effective anti-cancer drug that was approved for use in the US last year, will soon be available in India at half the cost

Notch in the mountains

HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY-ACTION PLAN·Edited by Uppeandra Dhar·Himvikas Publication No. 10, published for the G B Pant Institute of …

Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC

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Global Eco Watch: 1.2 million Indians died of snake bites in last 20 years

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Death crawl

Carnivorous snails of Thailand face extinction due to mining

Disastrous dyke

Rain forest discovered

It is raining lizards and geckos

Capturing nature

CHHOBI MELA–2001·exhibition of photographs on nature and wildlife·The Academy of Fine Arts·Kolkata·January 2001

Global Eco Watch: How climate may have helped exacerbate Spanish Flu

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