World Heart Day: Cardiologists insist on 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products
The measure is also critical to meet the sustainable development goals
Environmental activists as politicians
Two more vulture species under threat
Is it diclofenac?
Science and Technology - Briefs
Ebola vaccine closer after scientists discover key protein
Presently, there are no authorised treatments to cure the disease
Water at the drop of a coin
An experiment in north Karnataka promises to solve rural drinking water woes
SC stays own decision to transfer environmental cases from high courts to green tribunal
Adarsh housing case underscores lack of clarity on which cases can be decided by NGT
Policy vacuum
In the absence of norms, political expediency becomes the norm for water transfers
Florida moves closer to ending 20-year-old ban on bear hunt as attacks rise
Final decision would be taken by wildlife authorities in April and June
Olive Ridley turtles disoriented, lay eggs in villages away from nesting sites
Such turtles are at risk of being attacked by jackals and dogs or dying of dehydration
Seven people die of suspected anthrax in Jharkhand
State health officials say they probably caught the infection from cattle
Vulture nemesis returns in new avatar
New painkiller used on cattle gets metabolised into diclofenac
Community forest rights for Gondia's tribal villages
Improved claim formats; no unfair caveats
New species of snake discovered in Western Ghats
It is named after Varad Giri of Bombay Natural History Society who brought it from Goa
Forest fires singe Maharashtra
Officials say peeved tendu contractors are causing them
How Nepal ignored threat of imminent earthquake
Unplanned growth despite the region being quake-prone led to massive destruction
Phailin keeps migratory birds away from Chilika lake
Only 120,000 birds have congregated at the Nalabana sanctuary in Odisha this year
Another suspected poaching incident in Pench
Authorities fail to keep check
Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt
Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme
Indian companies' CDM projects pollute environment
Most clean projects cleared on face value and are based on tall claims
“Women being denied forest claims’
Report by non-profits highlights gender disparity in Forest Rights Act implementation
Mitigate man-animal conflict: tiger conservation authority
Chhattisgarh tigress could have been saved from mob death on September 24
Perhaps yes, minister
Kerala's Periyar Tiger Reserve is a butterfly hot spot, finds survey
Reserve has 246 of 340 species seen in the Western Ghats
Call for policy to check drug abuse, overuse
Public health experts suggest ways to curb drug resistance