Centre draws flak from Parliamentary panel over state of onion silos
The Standing Committee also noted that 51,582.74 million tonnes (MT) of onion had been damaged due to spoilage in the last three years
Bihar man-eater shot: ‘We need to put down problem animals for wildlife conservation’
Shafath Ali Khan, who was engaged by the Maharashtra government in the operation to eliminate Avni in 2018, released a book this year to narrate …
Union Budget 2022-23: Activists express disbelief at sanction of money for river interlinking
River interlinking projects including Ken-Betwa do not have statutory clearances, are sub judice and have hardly progressed in the last two …
Hepatitis B is a public health concern in India; but very few know about its transmission, effects & vaccination
Misconceptions and insufficient education on Hepatitis B are widespread; they necessitate targeted information campaigns, finds Sir Ganga Ram …
Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival begins in Arunachal; effective conservation of iconic birds urged
PPHF was declared a ‘state festival’ by then-Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu in 2019
Project Tiger, CAMPA funds used to finance cheetah project: Centre
Barda wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat being developed as a second home for Asiatic lions
38 forest and unsurveyed villages in Odisha’s Ganjam granted revenue status
The residents of the villages have also been granted community forest rights & can also avail government benefits now
Bhupender Yadav launches field manual for forest staffers to manage human-elephant conflict
Yadav also released the Preliminary Report on Human Elephant Conflict and a booklet titled Trumpet
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Concentration of air pollutants significantly increasing over India: IPCC
Just effective decarbonisation policies not enough to bring SO2, NO2, O3 and NH3 to safe levels; clean energy and waste management would be needed
Cyclones could’ve been a rarity in the Arabian Sea historically; but not storms, say historians
The Arabian Sea is currently witnessing Cyclone Biporjoy having witnessed cyclones Vayu, Nisarga and Tauktae in the past few years
डाउन टू अर्थ खास: आवारा कुत्ते, इंसानों के दोस्त या दुश्मन?
इस बात से सभी सहमत हैं कि आवारा कुत्ते समस्या हैं, लेकिन उनकी बढ़ती संख्या सीमित रखने की नीतियों को लेकर मतभेद है
IN PHOTOS: People of Plachimada ask UN to drop Coca-Cola as COP27 sponsor
People in Plachimada in Kerala’s Palakkad district have also been on a ‘satyagraha’ for 88 days now
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Reliance mobile towers in Gir: Lion experts say any artificial object an intrusion into natural spaces
How much more will we intrude into nature, experts ask, even as the Gujarat wildlife board has already given permission to Reliance to install …
African Swine Fever threatens India’s Pygmy Hog, other Asian wild pig species: ‘Science’ article
The world's rarest and smallest wild pig species is “extremely susceptible to extinction” from ASF due to its small populations and …
Formulate, implement national urban employment guarantee, workers tell Centre
The pandemic and subsequent national lockdown have exposed the long-existing vulnerabilities faced by India’s urban poor
Question mark on Vishwamitri’s crocodiles as Vadodara Municipal Corp rams their habitat
Vadodara’s municipal corporation started a ‘clean up’ drive July 10 but zoologists say the exercise could have destroyed prime …
मानव के सर्वशक्तिमान होने का भ्रम तोड़ रही हैं प्राकृतिक आपदाएं: अमिताभ घोष
बढ़ रही प्राकृतिक आपदाओं को लेकर ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार से सम्मानित लेखक अमिताव घोष से विशेष बातचीत
Widen met station network in Himalayas to better predict extreme weather: Panel
The Centre should put in place and strengthen weather forecasting technology to warn about cloudbursts, flash floods and glacial lakes, the …
Sarsa: Rivulet associated with pivotal moment in Guru Gobind Singh’s life is dying
The Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial complex, one of India’s largest manufacturing hubs, is located near the Sarsa and …
Nearly 150,000 Indians have died in the past 51 years because of extreme weather: WMO
Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused nearly 12, 000 disasters worldwide between 1970 and 2021
Subcontinent’s last cheetah was seen in 1997 in Balochistan: Divyabhanusinh at relaunch of seminal book
‘The story of India’s cheetahs’ was first published in 1995 and has more or less been the most exhaustive work on the cheetah …
साल 2023 में 204 बाघों की मौत, सबसे ज्यादा महाराष्ट्र में मरे: रिपोर्ट
प्राकृतिक या अन्य कारणों से सबसे अधिक बाघ मारे गए, जबकि शिकारियों ने 55 बाघों की जान ले ली
Laws alone won’t end female genital mutilation in India: Mariya Taher
Down To Earth speaks to Mariya Taher, the co-founder and United States executive director of non-profit Sahiyo on Female Genital …