What: Bhupathy’s shieldtail Where: Tamilnadu (Western Ghats) Who: Jins V.J Researchers have discovered a new shieldtail Read More …
Category: Environment
Uropeltis bhupathyi-New snake species discovered in Western Ghats
Nearly 30 per cent of the world’s population lives in dry areas.
India hosted four day (April 24-27, 2018) Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop of the UN Convention to Read More …
Government notifies Plastic Waste Management (amendment) rules 2018
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Read More …
Baobab sapling in the gardens of Rashtrapati Bhavan
What: Baobab tree When: April 3, 2018 Where: Rashtrapati Bhawan The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Read More …
Earth Hour 2018
What: Earth Hour When: March 24, 2018 Who: WWF Earth Hour was observed from 8:30 Read More …
Water strider’s new species found in Nagaland
What: Water Strider new species Where: Nagaland Who: Zoological Survey of India A new species of Read More …
Maharashtra government banned all kinds of plastic bags
The Maharashtra government on March 15 decided to banned all kinds of plastic bags, irrespective Read More …
Alien fishes are posing threats to the native species of India
Some experts have raised concern over the increase in the import of alien fishes like Read More …
‘Dr Harsh Vardhan’ mobile app launched
In an effort to transform environment protection into a peoples’ movement, a digital mobile application Read More …
A New Species of Elephant identified
A recent genetic analysis, published in the National Academy of Sciences, has shown that African Read More …
The Chilika lake has 155 numbers of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins
According to the latest Annual Monitoring, which was conducted on 24 February, the Chilika lake Read More …
Olive ridley turtles create new record of mass nesting at the Rushikulya rookery
According to the ‘The Hindu‘ newspaper, with 4,28,083 mother olive ridley turtles building nests till Read More …
Wild horses are extinct, Przewalski is not a wild horse
According to a recent study by the scientists of University of Kansas, all the wild Read More …
Drypetes kalamii-a new plant species identified in West Bengal
Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India have identified a new plant species from two Read More …
Cousins of the ‘world’s ugliest animal Mr. Blobby discovered
Researchers has discovered more than 100 rarely seen fish species from a deep and cold Read More …
India will host the global World Environment Day 2018
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Head of the UN Environment Erik Solheim announced on 19 February that Read More …
Ten wildlife fast-track courts have been set up in Assam
The forest guards in Assam, who faces threats from poachers, were given modern weapons like Read More …
Arctic Sunrise and Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary
World environmental conservation body Greenpeace is planning to build world’s largest wildlife reserve in Antarctica. Read More …
More than one lakh Orangutans killed in Borneo
According to the new study published in the journal ‘Current Biology’, more than one lakh Read More …
First butterfly park of Madhya Pradesh inaugurated
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker Sitasaran Sharma on February 16, 2018, dedicated the first butterfly park Read More …
PM Modi inaugurated World Sustainable Development Summit – 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second edition ‘World Sustainable Development Summit-2018’ (WSDS) in Vigyan Read More …
Three pairs of tigers will be translocated from MP to Odisha’s Satkosia
The Madhya Pradesh government has given an in principle nod to the proposal of National Read More …
Tuvalu’ land area increased by 2.9% despite rising sea level threat
Various reports on climate change and its effect, have warned that due to global warming, Read More …
Marbled crayfish are multiplying without male partner
According to the new study published in ‘Nature, Ecology and Evolution’, marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) Read More …
Three new Eel species discovered along the coast of Bay of Bengal
A Zoological Survey of India ( ZSI) scientist Anil Mohapatra, along with other scientist have Read More …