Missing links

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Linking Up

Development of a protected area network is necessary to save the plants and animals of Sikkim

Forays of Ignorance

There is something seriously amiss in the way studies of wildlife have been conducted in Sikkim

Checking in Quietly

Bad regulation equals contaminated imports

Global Eco Watch: Polar bears could become extinct by 2100, says study

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Thirty one per cent of world’s cacti facing threat of extinction: IUCN

Unscrupulous collection of live plants and seeds for trade and private ornamental collection affects 47 per cent of the threatened species

Fungi crucial to diversity

Pathogenic fungi kill seedlings of the same species growing near each other in forests and promote biodiversity

Lone ranger

Rare flower gives clues to evolution of flowering plants

Opportunists among plants

Invasive species thrive by making the most of nutrition that comes in spurts

In the bog

Protecting biodiversity

Death by disease

Severe impact

Many species may become extinct due to global warming

Imitating leaf cells to solve energy crisis

BOW BEFORE THE ORCHIDS

A look into what could be the world's most- elevated plant family

Database launched on flora in peninsular India

The work started with digitising the flora of Karnataka, but was later expanded to cover other states

The environmental costs of Trump's wall

All that concrete will generate millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions and the wall will ravage a unique desert habitat that straddles two countries

This week from the world of science and environment

The discovery of an important piece in evolutionary science and the threat of extreme weather events to our food security—a quick look at …

Feeding frenzy

14 fly species and 18 species of wasps found living in a single tropical flower, feeding on each other

Dwarfed by climate change

Animals, plants stunt as global warming alters metabolism  

Earth on verge of mass extinction

Event will be human-induced, warn scientists

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