A unique tree park for Chennai
With 300 species of trees, the ‘Forest Genetic Resources Tree Park’ will serve as a unique gene pool for Tamil Nadu’s …
Global Eco Watch: Atlantic Salmon returning to Maine river after dam removals
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Global Eco Watch: European Bison to be introduced into Kentish woodland
Lack of data on gut microbes in India a problem
Studies across the globe have linked intestinal microbes with protection from diseases; India may be sitting on a mine of information
Global Eco Watch: Dust causing rapid snow and ice melt in western Himalayas
Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why – but finding out could change the way we grow things
To really understand how plants grow, you need to look at processes which happen inside cells.
Global Eco Watch: A cooling event caused rice to spread across Asia 4,200 years ago
Book Excerpt: A guide to the Peninsula’s indigenous floral wealth
Many in southern India are unaware that the region hosted and still hosts unique botanical life
One-third of Africa's tropical plant species are on the verge of extinction
A large part of western Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo could lose 40 per cent of their trees, shrubs, herbs and …
Global Eco Watch: Chinese pink dolphin numbers rise in Pearl river estuary
Listen... plants too speak
As early as in 1880, Charles Darwin demonstrated that plants could sense light, moisture, gravity, pressure and possessed several other qualities.…
Global Eco Watch: Arm forest guards with guns instead of lathis, suggests SC
Global Eco Watch: 1.2 million Indians died of snake bites in last 20 years
Deserts not deserted, but full of floral, faunal activity
These unforgiving lands may appear lifeless only to the unacquainted, but they are a unique and living ecosystem
Global Eco Watch: How climate may have helped exacerbate Spanish Flu
‘The ship has reached the shore’: The planet finally has a treaty to protect life in the high seas
The high seas are areas of oceans that lies beyond countries’ national waters. These are the largest habitat on Earth and home to …
Human reproductive technologies like sperm freezing and IVF could be used to save threatened species
They could solve genetic and cost issues and prevent inbreeding depression among such species
Global Eco Watch: Red Sea turtles are now mostly being born female due to climate change
Global Eco Watch: Reliance plans ‘largest zoo’ in Jamnagar
Global Eco Watch: ‘Strongest storm on Earth’ in 2020, slams into the Philippines
Global Eco Watch: Polar bears could become extinct by 2100, says study
Mesoamerica, origin of several global crops, faces floristic biodiversity loss: Study
Mesoamerica is seeing a decline in the wild relatives of potatoes, beans, squash and maize due to loss of wild spaces and mechanisation of agriculture
Climate effect: Airborne pollen in United States may go up by 2050
Pollen season will start earlier and last longer throughout the US, simulations by researchers show
World Biodiversity Day: Ever more important amid COVID-19 pandemic
Various levels and forms of biodiversity such as ecosystems, species, genes across all taxonomic ranges are threatened, and facing an alarming …
Database launched on flora in peninsular India
The work started with digitising the flora of Karnataka, but was later expanded to cover other states