Gurugram-based wildlife photographer Rajeev Dasgupta got the first photographic evidence of the rare subspecies of Read More …
Category: Environment
Rare subspecies of the male Koklass pheasant in India
Two new species of woolly flying squirrels discovered in Himalayas
An international team of researchers from Australia and China have shown that two related species Read More …
Joe Biden suspends oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
GS TIMES STAFF The United State’s Joe Biden’s administration has suspended oil and gas leases Read More …
“Nitrogen pollution restricts the safe margin for other environmental issues”
India Science Wire Humanity’s failure to stop nitrogen pollution could limit the safe operating margin Read More …
GIS-based mapping of microbial diversity of river Ganga
India Science Wire Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)’s Nagpur based constituent laboratory National Read More …
HRMN-99-A new apple variety
A farmer from Himachal Pradesh has developed an innovative self-pollinating apple variety “HRMN-99” that does Read More …
Jayanti-a new species of cricket
Jayanti-a new species of cricket, was found in the Kurra caves of Chhattisgarh in April 2021 Read More …
Giant tortoise thought extinct 100 years ago is alive in Galapagos Islands
A giant tortoise species, which scientists thought had died out more than a century ago, Read More …
NGT constitutes committee to look into Mekedatu dam issue
The National Green Tribunal (NGT), Southern Zone, has appointed a joint committee to look into Read More …
Van Gujjars allowed to enter Govind Pashu Vihar National Park
The Uttarakhand High Court uphold the right of life of Van Gujjars to migrate to Read More …
National Mission on use of Biomass in coal based thermal power plants
Union Ministry of Power has decided to set up a National Mission on use of Biomass Read More …
Invasive whitefly has now spread across India
The first invasive whitefly reported from Kerala in 1995 has now spread across the country, Read More …
India is home to 4,371 species of deep-sea fauna
According to a recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), India is home Read More …
Scientists discover new species of African Violet plant in Mizoram
India Science Wire Researchers at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal have Read More …
NGT ordered removal of encroachments from Banni grasslands
According to the Down To Earth, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered all encroachments to Read More …
Breeding of gharial witnessed in the fresh waters of Mahanadi
First time in last four decades, breeding of the endangered gharial species (Gavialis gangeticus) has been Read More …
Kuno National Park to get African Cheetahs
Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park will receive African Cheetahs as part of India’s first inter-country Read More …
Mouda Jalyukta Shivar Yojana
NTPC in Mouda, Maharashtra has helped over 150 villages in and around its operational area Read More …
India Biodiversity Award 2021
The India Biodiversity Award was declared on May 22, 2021 during the International Day for Biological Diversity. Read More …
Covid 19 and PVTG Dongria Kondh
According to a report published in The Hindu, activists and writers have urged the Odisha Read More …
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
According to a report published in ‘The Hindu’, twenty three farmers are actively a part Read More …
Sunderlal Bahuguna passes away
Environmentalist and Gandhian Sunderlal Bahuguna died at AIIMS, Rishikesh on May 21, 2021. He was Read More …
Coelacanth fish-found alive in Indian Ocean
Coelacanth, an extremely rare species of fish, which was once thought to have gone extinct Read More …
Corpse flower
In May 2021, people queued up outside an abandoned gas station in San Francisco’s Bay Read More …
A-76: World’s largest iceberg breaks off of Antarctica
A-76-the world’s biggest iceberg has broken off of Antarctica, the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel satellite shows. The Read More …