Birth, death registration improves across states: NFHS-5

Rate of registration of births was higher among surveyed state, UTs. The lowest was in Nagaland at 73%

Did Death Valley just hit the highest temperature recorded ever

The all-time highest temeparature ever was recorded more than a century ago, but that reading has been challenged 

Heatwave kills 36 people, most in Andhra Pradesh

Churu, which saw the temperatures soar beyond 50 degrees Celsius, has not registered even a single death

Hong Kong to ban ivory trade

The city is a key link in the ivory trafficking trade and provides a strategic transit hub into mainland China

Simply Put: Evolution of Man

Multiple exclusions push Odisha’s children into malnutrition death

Nearly 90 per cent of the rural tribal households live in extreme distress conditions with no liquid cash

Warming temperatures can mean mass leaf deaths in tropical forests

Some percentage of leaves from tropical forests are already exposed to such temperatures that prevent their normal functioning  

Now everyone’s a statistician. Here’s what armchair COVID-19 experts are getting wrong

It’s the infection rate that’s scary, not the death rate; not all infections are cases

Rats not responsible for ‘Black Death’ in medieval Europe: study

Climate change and gerbils, another rodent species spread the deadly disease, it says

Climate change to trigger mortality risks from air pollution, flooding: Researchers warn ahead of COP28

More than 6.5 million deaths a year globally are attributable to air pollution

Goods train driver booked after two female elephants mowed down in Odisha

Forest officials said the animals were killed becuase the train was speeding 

Why pregnancy brings distress for women in Sierra Leone

A crumbling health system deters women from going to hospitals, making the West African country home to the world's highest maternal death rate

Only one Indian has died of Ebola, says government

Earlier this month, India had quarantined a 26-year-old Indian who travelled from Liberia and had traces of virus in his semen

Two held after tusker dies due to burn injuries near Mudumalai Tiger Reserve

The animal was being shifted to a relief camp for treatment when it collapsed due to septicemia and died

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

Nepal tragedy: death toll crosses 5,000

Power is reaching only some parts of the capital city. Thousands of people are still sleeping in the open

Thunderstorm kills 32 in Bihar after state ignores IMD warning

Locals allege the death toll is expected to be much higher than the numbers reported by the government

Why are lives so cheap in Indian steel plants?

Centre for Science and Environment report had highlighted poor safety conditions in steel plants. Two mishaps in a row at the Bhilai and …

Captive for months, experts fear cheetahs at Kuno may face breeding issues

Cheetah tourism or safari parks are not scientific approach to open ecosystem conservation

Live electric wires a huge threat to wild elephants; two female jumbos die in Odisha

Forest department, power distribution companies to blame, say experts 

World Elephant Day: The trials of India’s national heritage animal

Of 21 venues housing 509 elephants, 45% were kept in severely inadequate conditions

Tranquilised wild elephant dies after falling off lorry; autopsy indicates cardiac arrest cause of death

Wildlife activist alleges negligence by forest department during capture operation  

How pandemics fuel the rise of mega-corporations

The Black Death and COVID-19 seem to have caused concentration and centralisation of business and state power. The question is whether these …

Healthy lifestyle can overcome genetic risk of heart disease: study

Subjects who followed a low-fat diet reported higher levels of good cholesterol despite carrying a gene shown to increase risk of diabetes, shows …

COVID-19: Life expectancy losses in western Europe comparable to WWII

Life expectancy reduced by over 1 year in 11 countries for men and 8 for women