Wetland crisis

Industrial activity threatens the wetlands of east Calcutta

MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION

Knowledge without power, and power bereft of knowledge. This, in sum, is the story of mismanagement of wildlife and protected forests in India. …

Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

A third of freshwater fish face extinction: Report

As many as 16 species were declared extinct in 2020 alone

Prevention, not mitigation needed to solve South Africa’s plastic problem: WWF

Interventions needed across plastic value chain rather than just waste management

लू और सूखा के चलते दुनिया के खाद्य उत्पादन में एक-चौथाई गिरावट की आशंका

शोधकर्ताओं ने 40 साल के आंकड़ों का अध्ययन किया है और पाया कि विशिष्ट तरंगों के चलते तीन महाद्वीपों के तापमान में वृद्धि देखी ...

Indian, African women living near national parks being sterilised, claims Dutch expose

Television series Zembla has also claimed that shoot-at-sight orders were very much in place at Kaziranga National Park

Much of world’s fossil fuel must stay unburnt to meet climate target: report

Over 80 per cent of coal, 50 per cent of gas and 30 per cent of oil reserves are “unburnable” under the goal to limit global warming

The lotus effect

Water doesn't stick to lotus leaves. Nature has given the plant a self-cleaning mechanism. Crack the science of it, and you have the formula for …

Disappearing Act

Only special breeding programmes and creation of corridors can save the lion-tailed macaque from extinction

Traditional wisdom

Researchers in Gujarat use rural expertise to predict weather when modern methods fail to make accurate forecast

The pig-headed species

Overzealous conservationists block progress at CITES meet (Read full article)

नए युग में धरती: अब तक पांच बार हो चुका है महाविनाश

शुरुआती विलुप्तियां और जीवाश्म रिकॉर्ड बताते हैं कि एक प्रजाति करीब 10 लाख वर्षों में खत्म हो जाती है

India's tiger habitat declines by 41 per cent, says IUCN

The report warns that a similar decline could be expected over the next 20-30 years if conservation effort are not scaled up

Bike riders reach out to people in a unique campaign against Ebola

The worst Ebola outbreak in history has claimed nearly 2,300 lives in four countries; about 4,300 cases have been detected in four countries

After successful monkey trials, new Ebola vaccine being tested on humans

Two vaccines have been used in the treatment—one as doze against the virus and second to boost the immunity

Only 3,000 tigers left in the world, says IUCN

While India has registered an impressive growth in the tiger population, studies reveal that the big cats could be wiped off the face of the …

Emissions from peatlands under dry conditions may be less than previously thought

Trees and shrubs and presence of chemicals can slow down the drying process of such lands

Ancient fossil throws light on earliest migrants from Africa

Humans might have interbred with Neanderthals

Indonesia’s forests degrading fastest in the world, palm oil blamed

About 40 per cent of total forest loss occurred within protected forest lands

Wings Of Change

Migratory birds stage a comeback after a long hiatus as Kashmir wetlands get a fresh lease of life

Pine pressure

Pine culture has altered the Himalayan landscape with disastrous effect on its fragile ecology

Deep sea blues

Bad news for the oceans, is bad news for the environment, the economy and humans

Torn apart

Forest fragmentation can have detrimental effects on the flora and fauna, leading to a loss of biodiversity