Gay, bisexual and pansexual men can now donate blood in US

FDA updates discriminatory guidelines; new set of risk-based rules in place applicable on all prospective donors

No food in forests: Lack of food is driving Kerala’s wild animals into human settlements

Spread of invasive plants, habitat destruction destroying food for herbibores, which in turn is affecting carnivores

PM trains guns on ‘environmentalists’ during virtual meet with farmers

Says environmentalists who support farmers now, opposed killing animals raiding farms earlier  

Decoding Uttarakhand HC’s judgment on animal rights

The well-intentioned verdict throws up various legal and ecological questions

Haunting past

Report>> Indigenous Communities • Brazil

Drought in the Amazon can cause local caiman extirpations, spike human-caiman conflict

Drought conditions have previously been cited as a potential factor in increased alligator attacks on humans

Cautious cats: Africa’s lions changing behaviour, skipping high density human areas to avoid conflict

Human-lion conflicts may increase due to shrinking lion habitat, lack of food availability, warns study

Simply Put: New year, old madness

Book on inspiring moments of great scientists released

It seeks to reveal important facets of development of science and technology 

News Snippets

Trade controle is not fair instrument

Rights infringed

We must know

Mean inheritance

Scavengery continues to remain one of society's ills in spite of laws created to abolish it

Australia repents

Australia apologises to aborigines for the mistakes of the past

No screen presence

Shady deal

Land rights of Brazil's local people being usurped

Lake Manchar is dead

Pakistan's largest freshwater lake is drowned by effluents

Agricultural land rights for women

Also, share in joint family property; new bill passed

Chidambaram soft on Salwa Judum

Stop calling activists Maoists: SC

Alabama ruling frozen embryos are equivalent to living children has worrying implications for IVF

The judgement that in Australia only one embryo is transferred & none frozen is demonstrably false

"Snow leopard habitat may be lost due to climate change"

The snow leopard is facing a huge threat from climate change and a hostile human population in Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Nawaz, an authority on the …

Shoot-to-kill orders issued in Uttarakhand town for leopard

Hunters are scouring Bageshwar and its surroundings after a leopard that was blamed for several attacks and two deaths, was declared a man eater …

Researchers quantify damage caused by peafowl to farmers

They selected two plots. Peafowl were allowed in one and not in the other. After four years of repeated estimates, the researchers have concluded …