Long live the queen: Anti-insulin protein linked to 500% increase in longevity among ants
Black garden queen ant can produce one million eggs and live for 30 years, unlike her sterile worker sisters, who only have one year’s …
Kuno plans to electrify enclosure fence to prevent leopard-cheetah conflict
Current is sufficient enough to give an electric shock to the leopards but not strong enough to kill them
This Hawaiian tree snail is the first extinction of 2019
George, of the species Achatinella apexfulva, died on New Year’s Day, 2019
For the first time, Delhi govt plans to start bird hospitals
The proposal is part of the Animal Health and Welfare Policy 2018, recently discussed in a government meeting
New invasive weed spotted in Karnataka
EthuliagracilisDelile, possibly originating in Africa, spotted in Belagavi and Bagalkot
How these two remote districts in Andhra are tackling wild elephant intrusions
The forest department in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram, which border Odisha, are doing their best to manage pachyderms that regularly stray from …
Human-Croc conflict: Lessons from Down Under
As crocodilians (Alligators, caimans and true crocodiles) re-wild former ranges globally, Australia’s model of croc management and peaceful …
Save these camels of Kutch
The Kharai is a unique breed of camel found only in Kutch, which feeds on mangroves. But salt-making industries operating in the area are …
Exploitation changes leopard behaviour with long-term genetic costs
Removing too many individuals, especially of a particular age or sex, can destabilise a population
Penguin fight: understanding animal contest behaviour in five easy steps
The battles seen in a recent viral video and the BBC's Planet Earth II documentary are just a glimpse of the contests that take place throughout …
10,000 sheep, goat stranded at Gujarat port after govt cancels export
This last-minute decision came after the Jain community protested against livestock export to the Middle-East
Fake medicine from the sea
That terrestrial species like the rhino and tiger are targeted for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine is well known. What is not is that this …
Plantation mission may destroy Odisha’s forests and river ecology
The Green Mahanadi Mission would fiercely impact the livelihood of farmers and cattle herders
Stop displaying elephants at the Sonepur fair
The elephant is India’s National Heritage Animal and displaying it at Sonepur only encourages the brutal and illegal trade in wild …
India gets protocol to assess Snow Leopard population
No date has been set yet for process reserved only for tigers, rhinos and elephants until now
Global pet trade in amphibians is bigger than we thought
There is a strong bias for certain types of amphibians; six amphibian families contributed disproportionately high numbers of traded species
Could climate change have brought Delhi's winter birds early?
Migratory birds, which should have come to northern India by November, have appeared in September and October itself
Gene that can boost photosynthesis identified in cyanobacteria
The gene, called activase-like cyanobacterial protein, will improve rubisco enzyme that is key to the food making process and increase …
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (September 16-22)
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
18th Conference of parties of CITES: Global conservation's hits and misses
Some excellent decisions taken to protect the Earth's diminishing flora and fauna; in some other cases, better luck next time perhaps
How plants gauge the time of day
Light-sensitive proteins — called photoreceptors — measures time in plants and keeps them abreast of seasons, which is …
World Elephant Day: India’s jumbos stare at a worrying future
Today only about 27,000 wild elephants remain in India, as opposed to a million a decade ago. There has been a 98 per cent nose-dive in their …
We tracked South Africa’s sardine run over 66 years: here’s what we found
The sardine run is of great economic importance because it provides prime fishing opportunities and attracts large numbers of tourists
Save the Himalayan Grey Langur
Restricted to a small part of Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba, the species is facing threats and apathy
It’s Sarabi’s pride, Mufasa just lives there: a biologist on The Lion King
The real-life dynamics of a lion pride in Uganda or Tanzania’s national parks can be far more Game of Thrones than The Circle of Life