Warming imperils clouds that deter ‘hothouse’ conditions
Marine clouds that protect us from hothouse Earth conditions by reflecting sunlight back into space could break up and vanish if CO2 in the atmosphere triples, researchers warned.
DNA forensics a vital tool in cracking wildlife crimes
In November 2017, 23-year-old youth from North 24 Parganas in West Bengal killed a wild animal and posted photographs on a social media platform.
Flying bulldog’: world’s largest bee spotted again
The world’s largest bee a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb has been rediscovered.
Declining biodiversity threatens food supply
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday warned about the threat to the future of the world’s food production from a lack of biodiversity in the environment.
sea squirt that sucks plastic particles from the ocean
Researchers have found rubbery sea creature.
Clean power
The effort to clean up India’s thermal power plants running on coal has never really taken off, despite the Ministry of Environment notifying emission limits for major pollutants such as SPM, sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury in December 2015.
Ghost nets, plastics pose threat to seabirds
The unprecedented August 2018 flood has washed out a huge amount of plastics from the land and rivers into the ocean.
Aussie mammal the first ‘climate change extinction’
Australia officially declared a Great Barrier Reef rodent extinct on Tuesday.
106 coastal sites picked for conservation
Biennial report released by the government says, the Centre has identified over 100 coastal and marine sites as conservation reserves under its National Wildlife Action Plan (NWAP) for 2017-2031.
Caught down the wire: Punjab’s blackbuck fight for existence
In 2019, so far, as many as eight blackbuck have died in the Abohar Wildlife Sanctuary (AWS).