Black bears adapt to city living
Black bears (ursus americanus) have efficiently adapted to the urban couch potato lifestyle, according to a recent study that compared urban and wild land bears in the Lake Tahoe region of Nevada.
Black bears (ursus americanus) have efficiently adapted to the urban couch potato lifestyle, according to a recent study that compared urban and wild land bears in the Lake Tahoe region of Nevada.
Buried under a thick carpet of silt and marsh, Neela Hauz, considered one of the largest water bodies in South Delhi, is going to get a fresh lease of life. The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has decided
Mumbaikars woke up to heavy rains and cool temperatures on Sunday morning . But the relief in a season marked with parsimonious showers did not extend to the lakes supplying water to the city. The average
UNLESS there is heavy rain in the Murray-Darling Basin over the rest of the year, 90% of South Australians face environmental catastrophe caused by the movement of heavy metals in solution up the river by osmosis. Osmosis is the process by which any solution that is in higher concentration in one part of a body of fluid will flow into the other parts with a lower concentration until the solution is evenly distributed.
The Rajasthan Government may consider a proposal to bring water from the Sabarmati basin to the lakes in Udaipur -- nestled in the Aravalli hills in the southern part of the State -- through an
The urgency to save Srinagar 's Dal Lake from encroachment and pollution is as important as countering terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir , a standing committee of Parliament which intervened in the
The Lake Isabella Dam, completed in 1953, created floodplains that allowed a riverside habitat to flourish. To America's environmental activists, dams are wicked. But as the Lake Isabella Dam
Haryana to allow houses on hillock next to Damdama Any structure on the hill will block flow of rainwater, thereby endangering the future of the water body
As confirmed recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change already exists with wide ranging consequences. Europe is as affected as all other regions of the world. Management responses
The little lake, once home to migratory birds, is slowly drying up. All around are stumps of freshly-cut trees. At a distance, bulldozers work. This is the Southern Ridge forest spread over Vasant
Increased deforestation is creating a new problem in Meghalaya. The picturesque Umiam lake just 12 km off Shillong, gets a lot of silt and solid waste that is reducing the water-holding capacity of
Various government agencies are now trying to fathom the exact size of the obstruction on the Pareechu river, which has caused a lake to form. Doubts are being expressed over the previous estimates
Sindh (Pakistan) Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has ordered the Dadu DCO to reinvestigate the matter of contaminated water of the Manchhar Lake. A special team, constituted under the
The continuing threat of flashfloods in Himachal Pradesh because of the arificial lake formed on the Pareechu river in South. Tibet besides wreaking havoc on the lives of scores of people living of
Americans were cautioned about eating fish from more than one-third of U.S. lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers last year due to pollution from mercury and other chemicals, the U.S.
Americans were cautioned about eating fish from more than one-third of U.S. lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers last year due to pollution from mercury and other chemicals, the U.S.
Freshwater basins are vulnerable to human-induced change for a number of reasons. The change detection study of Ansupa lake, Orissa was carried out by using multi-temporal satellite data clearly indicates the decrease in wetland area. Due to high anthropogenic pressure, the wetland is shrinking day-by-day.
For the conservaion of the Dal Nagin lake in Kashmir, the central government has okayed a Rs 269.45 crore
Spilling of a glacial lake in Tibet into the Sutlej river will not affect Pakistan, as water can be absorbed in an Indian dam on the river or over its Himachal Pradesh province. This was stated by
Devices to reduce the emissions of toxic gases from two Cameroon lakes will be put in place by a team of 10 scientists and engineers from the us , France and Japan. The emission of these