Climate change causes species to change habitats

A warmer climate is playing havoc with both flora and fauna

Amon crops survive pest threat

Protein against peach potato aphid discovered

Global Eco Watch: Greenland’s ice sheet has melted to ‘point of no return’

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Tryst with the Triassic

The Triassic has been brought into sharper focus, thanks to fossilised evidence found in the US

Spider secrets

Hogging the limelight

Repelling bee hiss

Intelligent butterfly

Cabbage butterflies remember flowers that provide maximum nectar

Subterranean farmers

Ants invented agriculture some 50 million years before the humans

New house? Will dance

Busybee's decline

Plant pests biofuelled

Salt, the saviour

The consumption of salt is currently being blamed for several health problems like high blood pressure and heart ailments that follow. Even …

Drawing battlelines

Monarch massacre

Loggers in Mexico accused of wiping out millions of butterflies

Bt fails in China

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Likes and unlikes

Appearances are deceptive, as the case of honey bees demonstrates. Though physiologically alike, queens and workers among bees can be …

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Muscled out?

Super ant territory

Rajasthan Locust Attack: Pests plus lockdown leave farmers in a soup

Destruction of the cotton crop, unsold rabi crops like wheat and barley and lack of help from the government making things worse for farmers

Global Eco Watch: Reindeer may have been domesticated 2,000 years ago

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Pollution changeth

Industrial pollution can cause genetic alteration in species