India, which is party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), is standing up for the heightened protection of two otter species…
Children across the world have realised it's now or never. As youth worldwide skip schools today in protest to demand action on climate change, a group of girls in the flood-prone…
Deep drills into millions of years-old volcanic rock of the Deccan Traps in peninsular India have unearthed a teeming microbial community 1500 metres below the earth’s surface. The array of…
In Goa’s serene Divar island, encircled by the Mandovi river, a 24-year old biologist is busy prodding her neighbours, asking questions and jogging their memories, to help chronicle the island’s natural…
A trainee cricketer died young in 2018 when a bolt of lightning during a routine warm-up session struck him, shocking many. In the same year, 14 people were killed in 41,025 lightning…
Fifty-two-year-old Trinity Saioo in Meghalaya has never heard of turmeric lattes that have gained a cult following in the ever-expanding list of healthy beverages. But every day, after the school she…
Toxic air does not know borders. A simulation study has gauged that 80 percent of the total untimely deaths in India due to outdoor air pollution is caused by emissions…
A tiny reserve forest in Assam along a fenced stretch of the India-Bangladesh border is facing a unique predicament. Bereft of a male elephant, the population of six remaining border-cruising…
In the scenic Western Himalayan foothills, an artificial intelligence (AI) application has sniffed out how natural resource management policies are doing on the ground. The AI application used a machine…
A study has revealed moderately cold temperatures (13.8 degree Celsius to roughly 30 degree Celsius) are responsible for a substantially greater number of deaths in comparison to extremely cold and hot temperatures in…
