Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
A tree that covers a large area of eastern Ethiopia but has only recently been categorized by botanists raises hope for finding new species elsewhere, experts said. The acacia fumosa tree, which grows in an area the size of the island of Crete, was not "found" for scientific purposes until …
More of Indonesia's critically endangered orangutans are being caught for the pet trade now than in the 1970s, reflecting the country's weak law enforcement, a wildlife protection group said in a report published on Thursday. Less than 8,000 Sumatran orangutans remain in the wild but a new report from wildlife …
The Red List is not perfect, but it is the best conservation tool we've got, say senior staff members at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
BHUBANESWAR: A team of plant scientists which mapped Khandadhar hill forests in Keonjhar has claimed to have spotted 29 new species of bryophytes in the region. These bryophytes, land plants without any flower or seed which reproduce by way of spores, have been reported for the first time in Orissa. …
Research conducted by experts show that the various shark species in Maldives were in danger of becoming extinct due to overfishing by shark hunters, the Fisheries Ministry has said. An official from the Ministry said that sharks reproduced at a very slow rate and that also in very small litter …
Different species of indigenous fishes is under threat of extinction in Patuakhali due to continued drying up of rivers and lack of adequate water in water bodies like haors and beels. Once famous for fish resources, the coastal district produced a huge quantity of sweet-water fishes in the rivers and …
ACCORDING to a recent study as reported by AFP, some endangered species may face extinction risk that is upto a hundred times greater than previously thought. By overlooking random differences between individuals in a given population, researchers may have badly underestimated the perils confronting threatened wildlife, the study says. Many …
A quarter of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, an international survey showed on Monday, and the destruction of habitats and hunting are the major causes. The report, the most comprehensive to date by 1,700 researchers, showed populations of half of all 5,487 species of mammals were in decline. …
real flab: Researchers in the US have found that artificial sweeteners are more fattening than sugar as the consumption of the low-calorie substitutes makes it harder for people to control their intake, as well as body weight. They say sugar can actually be healthier than low-calorie sweeteners as it sends …
Photographs supposedly showing a South China tiger in the wild have sparked a controversy. Chinese wildlife experts, officials, Internet users and media organizations have been drawn into a row over whether the tiger still exists in Shaanxi province. The drama began in October when a farmer supposedly snapped the tiger …
long environmental problems, not a sudden catastrophe, might have led to the Great Dying that ended the Permian era 250 million years ago, says a new study. The event wiped out 90 per cent of marine creatures and 70 per cent of the land dwellers. Whether these extinctions were caused …
Isabella Kirkland, a painter based in California, usa, has created a series of 3-by-4-feet canvases, called Taxa, on a variety of species. The six paintings, each of which took about a year to create, memorialize species that have vanished from the planet during the ascent of humans; those that are …
Diganta Narzary, a scientist at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, discovered a dinosaur egg fossil at Assam's Manas National Park in October 2006. amarjyoti borah talks to him about the importance of the discovery in terms of the geology of north-eastern India The discovery The egg is 30-cm long, …
chinese researchers have unearthed a massive dinosaur fossil from the Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol in China.According to the researchers, the giant dinosaur belongs to a family of bird-like dinosaursoviraptors. The discovery is set to challenge the evolutionary theory described earlier. Reason: the oviraptors rarely exceeded 40 kg in …
The recent discovery of the remains of a dodo in the island of Mauritius has provided some more clues about the extinct flightless bird. The skeleton has been nicknamed
Strong indicators Plans are underway to install lightning detector on Mount Cleveland this summer. Researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA, have found that lightning is a good indicator of volcanic activity. Their paper documents the electrical activity that occurred during the January 2006 eruption of Mount Augustine. While …
neanderthal, a species of the Homo genus, disappeared from Earth about 35,000 years ago. Homo sapiens who had the same ancestors as them, continued to live on. The reason behind their sudden disappearance has intrigued scientists for a long time. Anthropologists have propounded three theories explaining their disappearance. One group …
