hiruvananthapuram: The challenge before the proposed National Innovation Council (NIC) on biodiversity is to ensure a balance between conservation and economic development, National Biodiversity Authority…
Shimla: A better than expected catch in Bhakra Dam back waters has boosted the fishery departments’ hopes of meeting the year’s targets in warm…
Mumbai: Criticising minister of state for education Fouzia Khan for taking photographs with hunted animals in South Africa, the Federation of Indian Animal Protection…
Miami: US authorities are looking for a man who was photographed off the Florida coast riding on the back of a female sperm whale, an…
New Delhi: Worried over 82 tiger deaths this year in India, the highest in a decade, the environment ministry is finalising a standard operating procedure…
Shimla: Conservators have rubbished any claims of Forests Rights Act in Great National Himalayan Park, a reserve of rare Himalayan flora and fauna that…
Washington: Many Amazon tree species may survive man-made warming, a new genetic analysis has revealed, overturning findings that a temperature rise may cause them to…
Shimla: They’ve been captured on camera. Wildlife officials now want to tag satellite collars on the elusive and highly endangered snow leopard in the steep…
New Delhi: For a millennium, the majestic, lily-white polar bear has lorded over the frozen wastes of the Arctic. But if two Russian experts…
We can’t put a date on when geological epochs begin or end. But to say that Anthropocene began circa 19th/20th century would be reasonable;…