New Delhi, April 23 -- Climate change and habitat changes are making the Lesser Goldfinch, a songbird traditionally found in the southwestern United States to shift to the country's cooler Pacific Nor... Read More
New Delhi, April 23 -- Wolverines (Gulo gulo), the mustelid carnivore of the world's boreal forests, are making a comeback in southern Finland after having been wiped out from there due to hunting, a ... Read More
New Delhi, April 20 -- The yak, a ubiquitous presence in Nepal and the rest of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), must be elevated to its rightful place in the sustainable development agenda, Kathmandu-ba... Read More
New Delhi, April 16 -- Rising global temperatures mean that more female Olive Ridley turtles are hatching in Odisha's famous Rushikulya rookery, a new report by non-profit Dakshin Foundation has warne... Read More
New Delhi, April 14 -- While Babasaheb B R Ambedkar is well-known as the man who drafted the Constitution of India and who led the country's Scheduled Castes in their fight for dignity, less well-know... Read More
New Delhi, March 27 -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) like diclofenac and flunixin are freely available throughout the continent of South America, signaling a risk to the avian scavenger... Read More
India, March 21 -- The popular perception of Punjab is of a land of endless fields located on flat plains formed by the rivers that give it its name. But this was not always the case. The province, t... Read More
New Delhi, March 20 -- March 20 marks the ancient Persian/Iranian holiday of Nowruz throughout much of West Asia, Central Asia, parts of the Indian subcontinent and the Caucasus. The festival is over... Read More
New Delhi, March 13 -- A team of international scientists have discovered and described a new type of 'killifish' that is endemic to a Kenyan forest. But it is already critically endangered and may be... Read More
New Delhi, March 10 -- Thousands of years of indigenous farming myths and cultural traditions have been key to the survival of the cassava crop (the source of tapioca), a new study has found. Cassava... Read More