Wednesday, April 24, 2024
By Ramya Natarajan | IANS For the past several winters, Delhi has drawn global attention for its life-threatening smog levels. This is attributed, in part, to the open burning of biomass residues like paddy straw and stubble in the neighbouring stat...
24 May 2018By Vishnu Makhijani | IANS Latika Nath was just seven when she decided she would dedicate her life to the conservation of wildlife. Along the way, she became India’s first woman wildlife biologist and spent a quarter of a century working at the gr...
17 May 2018
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Only five to 11 individual Indus Dolphins, one of the world’s rarest mammals, survive in India, with their habitat confined to 130 km stretch of Beas river in Punjab, reveals the first-ever organised census. Low waterf...
11 May 2018
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS): Humans running into tigers and leopards, that left at least 156 people dead and injured in Dudhwa-Pilibhit area of Uttar Pradesh between 2000 and 2013 were due to people venturing into the forests and not the other way rou...
19 Apr 2018
A new early warning satellite system has revealed that India along with Spain, Morocco and Iraq faces the risk of shrinking reservoirs that can lead to taps going dry. It has highlighted poor rains in 2017 to show the shrinking of the Indira Sagar da...
13 Apr 2018
By Arun Kumar Das | IANS Faced with alarming levels of muck and choking weeds, Dal lake, the main tourist attraction in the Kashmir Valley, is gasping for breath — and the once-pristine waterbody seems to be in dire need of intervention by a...
04 Apr 2018
The air pollution in Delhi may reach 20 times higher than the safe limits owing to agricultural fires during peak burning season, a team of researchers have warned. In October and November which is a peak burning season in Punjab, about half of all p...
03 Apr 2018
The world’s leading experts said on said that biodiversity continues to decline in every region, significantly reducing nature’s capacity to contribute to people’s well-being. This alarming trend endangers economies, livelihoods, fo...
23 Mar 2018
By Monika Kundu Srivastava | India Science Wire Plastics have invaded our environment like never before. Now scientists have discovered that squirrels in urban areas are using plastic waste as a building material for their nests. Indian palm squirre...
08 Mar 2018
Ecotourism’s direct payment approach to the locals for sighting wildlife helps reducing illegal hunting, says a new international study. The study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Foundations of Success (FOS) finds that an ecotour...
03 Mar 2018
New Delhi, Feb. 28 (India Science Wire): Small actions by everyone in their day to day lives can help meet the challenge posed by climate change, Minister for Science & Technology and Environment Dr Harsh Vardhan has said. “If by collective act...
01 Mar 2018
A team of scientists has identified a new shark species residing in the Atlantic Ocean. Using genetic testing, the study confirmed that the new species, named the “Atlantic sixgill shark”, is different than its counterparts in the Indian and Paci...
22 Feb 2018
Meeting the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping the global-scale warming this century to less than 2 degrees Celsius could still lead to extreme weather events compared to the present, claims a study. The Paris Agreement saw nearly all the countries ...
15 Feb 2018
The polar bear population is declining fast as they are unable to catch enough prey to meet their energy needs, says a study. The researchers found that these animals have higher metabolic rates than previously thought, and climate change is adversel...
02 Feb 2018
By Dr. Aditi Jain | India Science Wire Weedsare a persistent problem for farmers. A recent assessment by the Directorate of Weed Research shows that India loses crops worth 11 billion US dollar every year to these farm intruders. This study, pub...
31 Jan 2018
Thinking that you may receive mosquito bites if you are more sweet may not be that far-fetched as a new study suggests that mosquitoes may abandon hosts who swat at them, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Current Biology, ...
28 Jan 2018
A new study has found that tiny airborne particles from industrial air pollution can have a bigger impact on powerful storms than scientists previously thought. The study, published in the journal Science, describes the effects of aerosols, which can...
27 Jan 2018
A new green index has ranked India the fourth worst country worldwide in curbing environmental pollution. According to the latest global Environmental Performance Index (EPI) rankings released on Tuesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum m...
24 Jan 2018
Scientists have identified an isolated population of orangutans living in Sumatra in Indonesia, which according to them are “among the most threatened great apes in the world”. The new species named the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanulie...
03 Nov 2017
Three leading bird conservation organisations on Thursday announced an innovative partnership to boost awareness about the plight of migratory birds around the globe. The new alliance formally unites two of the world’s largest bird education campai...
28 Oct 2017Researchers from Florida State University in the US have created a tool for objectively defining the onset and demise of the Indian summer monsoon. The new method, published in the journal Climate Dynamics, uses rainfall rates to mark the span of the...
25 Oct 2017
An estimated nine million people died worldwide in 2015 due to diseases caused by pollution — the biggest cause globally of all premature deaths — more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined and even more disastrous than all violenc...
20 Oct 2017
One in three animal parasites, one of the most threatened groups of life on Earth, may face extinction by 2070, as a result of global climate change, a study has warned. The study determined that parasites are even more threatened than the animal hos...
08 Sep 2017
Businesses in India are adapting to water scarcity. Most sectors are feeling the heat of recent droughts, leading to increased costs of raw materials, says a survey of mega companies operating in India. It says despite flooding in several states, wat...
02 Sep 2017
Despite demands for a ban on a game that is believed to have pushed a 14-year-old Mumbai boy to suicide, it may not be possible to bar the Blue Whale Challenge, an Internet expert said. The ban issue was recently raised in the Maharashtra assembly an...
20 Aug 2017
