Wet end of 2021 leads to fewer migratory birds in Odisha’s Chilika this year

Migratory birds are wintering in cultivated farmland near Chilika because of more water in it this year, say experts  

What it’s like to watch a harpooned whale die right before your eyes

Captain Paul Watson, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977, defends his organisation’s controversial tactics to prevent …

Bihar plans migratory bird festival to raise awareness about them

The festival organisers hope the event will help in keeping a check on bird poaching incidents by making citizens value them

Taking stock of the Paris climate debate

Climate change is about two things: mitigating the global warming effect and adapting to the changed climate

Climate change increasingly threatens mountain ecosystems

Mountain research, corridor ecology and climate damage researchers must work together to preserve the mountains, say experts

Bihar bans over-the-counter sale of Oxytocin

Consumption of milk or food laced with Oxytocin can reduce heart rate, damage brain and cause seizures in foetus in humans

South Asia

Organic way to a bumper crop

Drugs and religion have been a potent combination for millennia, from cannabis at ancient funerary sites to psychedelic retreats today

The current ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is often called revolutionary for future of humans

India seeks permanent solution on fisheries subsidies, public stockholdings ahead of WTO meet  

Civil society members claim current negotiations tabled at the WTO’s MC12 do not favour developing countries  

Action against poaching: Odisha plans DNA profiling for leopards

The exercise will help ascertain and trace the origin of the crime in case of leopard deaths

Binary blunders

The gender spectrum is a consequence of the complex interplay between culture and highly-nuanced and protean brain

National Health Profile 2015: Suicides on a rise, cancer cases may grow by 15 per cent in five years

India’s public spending on health is among the lowest in South East Asia and BRIC countries

Bilaspur coal washery expansion opposed

Public hearing that gave its consent stage-managed, say residents

Bird in danger

Saving the black-necked cranes in India requires protecting its habitat

Tiger poaching spirals, Uttarakhand registers maximum cases

Post-pandemic: Fear, time, mass death dominate the world of the novel coronavirus

COVID-19 has 3 official narratives — the medical and the governmental are presented emphatically; the social is ignored

Stop all trade talks during COVID-19: Civil society to WTO

Instead, refocus on access to medical supplies and saving lives, they urge  

Development news, polarisation and social media in times of Lok Sabha polls

Polarisation of development news in social media makes its impact partisan and non-effective

Geopolitics of Europe and the Iron Law of Evolutionary Biology

Any alternative to the current European Union is the grand accommodation of either France or Germany with Russia

US destroys a tonne of confiscated ivory at New York’s Times Square

Global ivory trade leads to slaughter of up to 35,000 elephants a year in Africa, says a non-profit

A rupee's worth

Jyotika Sood reveals how cooperative societies believe in taking an extra rupee from farmers but not sparing 78 paise

Science & Technology - Briefs

World Heart Day: Cardiologists insist on 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products

The measure is also critical to meet the sustainable development goals 

Environmental activists as politicians