At the December 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP 21), India championed the cause of sustainable lifestyle and sustainable consumption and production to address climate change. Now, a recent report released…
A recent stir launched by wildlife enthusiasts and activists in the Ladakh Himalayas over a major motorsport rally intruding upon ecologically sensitive areas of the cold desert, including high-altitude wetlands,…
Attribution analyses not only help in better understanding of the processes leading up to an extreme event and how such processes have changed or will change in future, attribution information…
Land degradation can exacerbate climate change and threaten agricultural productivity, water quality, biodiversity, sustainable development, and the living conditions of humans and wildlife, among other effects. Globally, a third of…
The risk of transmission of chikungunya in India increases with a steady spike in average temperatures in the south Asian nation, a climate-based modeling study has said. Researchers suggest the…
Is time running out for the 260-odd endangered sangai deer which have their only home Manipur? The sangai or the Indian Eld’s deer (Rucervus eldii eldii) resides as an isolated single…
New research findings caution against the ongoing introduction of exotic silver oak tree species into coffee farm systems in the Indian Western Ghats. Scientists say this could become a threat…
India has brought an area of 9.8 million hectares of deforested and degraded land under restoration since 2011, in its effort to fulfil its commitment to the global Bonn Challenge,…
It took the best scientific minds from 20 nations, including India, to scale what is considered as the “Mt. Everest of the genome world”. After 13 years of painstaking effort,…
Indian researchers have documented accelerated glacial melting at an Arctic fjord, a much-discussed factor projected to influence Indian monsoon with changing global climate. The frigid Arctic, which keeps losing ice…
