The model man

Whether it is his well-known monsoon model or his new population model, Vasant Gowarikar enjoys defying the classical definitions of a specialist.…

Blinded by figures

By 2010, the world's population will have gone up to 6 billion. But at the recent New York meeting on population and development, counting heads …

How clean is my country?

A collation of statistics on population density, water, sanitation and hygiene for 100 countries throws up disturbing trends

World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning

Two-child norm is endangering women's lives and skewing sex-ratio, say activists

Search for prey in diminishing habitats drains cheetahs of energy, says study

Scientists are studying factors that may have affected their population

Global triggers: Why these five big issues could cause significant problems in 2024

Trends of global power tensions, open war, democratic decline and extreme job market fluctuations are likely to continue in 2024

Upgrade Horn of Africa cheetah status to ‘endangered’, experts appeal to IUCN

Cheetah subspecies facing decline in genetic diversity due to illegal trade in cubs to Arab countries

Three-year-old cheetah Siyaya gives birth to litter of four cubs at Kuno

It will take at least three months to understand the gender of the cubs 

India needs 2.5 countries’ resources to meet its demands

Earth dwellers have used a year’s worth of resources in seven months

10 disturbing trends for Asia and the Pacific

The region is ageing rapidly, has the largest number of threatened species and more

End of dividend

Pollution havoc

Ominous signs

UNITED NATIONS

The digital divide

Global inequalities are also communicative in nature

Urban Menace: Discourage feeding of pigeons

Food security is the main cause of the bird populations thriving in human habitations 

The fate of the Cheetah Reintroduction Plan hangs in the balance

Even as the world marked International Cheetah Day on December 4, the nearly one-decade-old plan to reintroduce the Cheetah to India has still …

Non-binary genders need more visibility in India’s Census 2021

Separating sex and gender in the country’s biggest socioeconomic survey is imperative

Caracal: As the cheetah returns to India, researchers map out most suitable areas for its coursing counterpart

The caracal is on the verge of extinction in India and it is essential to find suitable areas to conserve it

Finally! Five experts to leave for Namibia February 17 to finalise cheetah translocation

Trip to Namibia was postponed first by floods and then, omicron; experts to return on February 23

We have become mere window dressing for Project Cheetah: South African experts in letter to Supreme Court

Our involvement minimised ever since Yadavendradev Jhala, who conceptualised and led the project, was removed, allege experts

India still among countries with poor access to banking: Report

More than half of population without access to banking lives in 7 developing countries: World Bank

Violence by State in hospitals unacceptable, says IMA

Doctors’ body condemns denial of care to protesters by police, establishment  

China’s population has peaked and is now falling — opportunities and risks for Africa

African countries with a large working-age population can theoretically benefit from the end of China’s period of labour-abundance

Photographic identities may help in elephant census: Study

Researchers used the technique to estimate Asian elephant populations in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam