East and West: Extreme weather strikes on opposite sides of globe in Brazil, Texas, Vietnam & Indonesia

India, May 6 -- 75 dead in Brazil floods; evacuations in flood-hit Houston; heat dries up Vietnam while 14 die in Indonesia due to floods and landslides Extreme weather has struck four areas on oppos... Read More

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, escapes major damage as Cyclone Hidaya makes landfall on Mafia Island near it

India, May 5 -- No further threat of Cyclone Hidaya in Tanzania, says government; Kenya bans beach activities, fishing and swimming in coastal counties till May 6 midnight Dar es Salaam, the commerci... Read More

Hidaya has made landfall as per Kenya Met Department; but another depression is developing behind it

India, May 4 -- Mtwara, a coastal city in Tanzania, receives 140% of its average May rainfall in 12 hours Cyclone Hidaya, which was barrelling its way towards the Tanzanian coast on May 3 night, has ... Read More

Complexity & agency in 'Kobigaan' need to be understood to know why gender gap continues in the art form: Priyanka Basu

India, May 4 -- Down to Earth speaks to UK-based academic on her latest book about a unique art form from West Bengal and Bangladesh This photograph of a Kobigaan performance was taken at the Sundarb... Read More

Cyclone Hidaya to slam into Tanzania south of Dar es Salaam; Ruto puts Kenya on alert

India, May 3 -- Kenya lies within Latitude 4deg North and South hence it is safe from tropical cyclones; but Ruto says this will change Cyclone 'Hidaya' ('Guidance' in Arabic and 'Gift' in Swahili), ... Read More

Non-human 'doctor': In a first, male Sumatran orangutan 'Rakus' recorded using medicinal plant to heal his wound

India, May 3 -- Finding shows medical wound treatment may have possibly arisen in a common ancestor shared by humans andgreat apes A male orangutan, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has been reco... Read More

Red Colobus: Conserving these Old World primates could help save Africa's tropical forests, says study

India, May 1 -- Colobine species are leaf-eaters, compared to the omnivore cercopithecines; Africa has 17 red colobus, from Senegal to Zanzibar The Red colobus, a rare group of imperilled monkeys spr... Read More

North Dakota: 200 wild horses related to Custer's Last Stand can stay in park where Teddy Roosevelt spent formative years

India, May 1 -- Herd had been considered risk earlier, with tendency to trample or overgraze vegetation used by native wildlife species, contribute to erosion and soil-related impacts A herd of almos... Read More

Alok Shukla wins Goldman Prize or 'Green Nobel' for Hasdeo Aranya campaign

India, April 30 -- Hasdeo movement, spearheaded by Shukla, a model for environmental justice in India, says Goldman Foundation Alok Shukla, convenor of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan and founding me... Read More

Kenya Floods 2024: Old Kijabe Dam bursts after heavy rains in the Rift Valley; 45 killed so far

India, April 29 -- East Africa deluged as Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya receive massive amounts of precipitation A dam burst near a village in the Rift Valley region of southern Kenya in the early hour... Read More

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