When tigers, elephants, rhinos visit an expanding Indian town
When 25-year-old e-rickshaw driver Javed Ali went out for work on the morning of November 23 last year, he had little idea that he would return home with the nightmarish…
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Efforts on to protect Chattisgarh’s state bird from extinction
The Kanger Valley National Park in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh is a mysterious place dotted with caves, waterfalls and dense forests. The protected area notified in 1982 is also famous…
[Explainer] Understanding the science behind avian influenza
Since the past few weeks, avian influenza (bird flu) cases have been reported from several states of India. Several thousands of ducks and chickens have been culled to contain the…
City survival tip for birds: Don’t be a picky eater
Eat everything, nest anywhere and be like Beyonce when singing for a companion. If a city bird were to give a country bird the top 10 survival techniques in a…
Will a smog tower help tackle air pollution in one of the world’s most polluted cities?
Soon after being inducted as Environment Minister in the Bihar government earlier this month, Niraj Kumar Singh held a meeting with Principal Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change department Dipak…
Beasts that once roamed the Indian subcontinent could hold clues to evolution and extinction
Turn the clock back in time 50,000 years and you would have seen two species of giant prehistoric elephants (Palaeoloxodon namadicus and Stegodon namadicus), a hippopotamus, Hexaprotodon sp., and a…
India’s mining reforms juggernaut continues despite concerns
Notwithstanding concerns regarding pollution from a mine, its impact on the environment including water bodies or concerns of mining-affected communities, the government of India in the latest push for mining…
When an army of women came together to revive a river
Vidhya Bhaskaran is back home in her village Salamanatham in Tamil Nadu from three days of training for the self-help group (SHG) members at Yercaud, a hill station in the…
Grassland burning, clearing imperils birds of Brahmaputra’s river islands
Concerned with the burning of grasslands and felling of trees, 34-year-old Bhabesh Mahanta is helping build a food forest for birds on a chapori (riverine island) near Guwahati in Assam.…
Eating shark meat might be normal in India but it could have an adverse impact
“This is crazy, Americans rarely eat shark,” exclaims an American video blogger in his April 2019 video while looking at baby sharks in a fish market in Calangute, Goa while…
